Te Huarahi Linwood Avenue School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 2. Current Equity Index: 499. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 260 Linwood Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch, 8062 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Linwood — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 355 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1928
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.11 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3899256
• Email: office@linwoodave.school.nz
• Contact: Felicity Iona
• Website: linwoodave.school.nz

Who the roll is

Students may identify with more than one group — the counts are the Ministry’s own and need not sum to the roll.

Enrolment zone

• Linwood Avenue School — in force from 2019-10-14 · 2 km²

It covers: Bromley, Linwood, Phillipstown, Woolston.

Indicative only — the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.

Other schools near here

• Te Pā o Rākaihautū — decile 4 · EQI 517 · 692 m
• Te Aratai College — decile 3 · EQI 507 · 700 m
• Te Ahuwai Bromley School — decile 3 · EQI 513 · 992 m
• Kimihia Parents' College — decile 1 · EQI 569 · 1.1 km
• Whītau School — decile 2 · EQI 513 · 1.2 km
• Te Waka Unua School — decile 2 · EQI 509 · 1.2 km
• Tamariki School — decile 4 · EQI 464 · 1.7 km
• St Anne's School (Woolston) — decile 3 · EQI 447 · 1.9 km

The green nearby

Parks whose drawn outline sits within 400 m — measured to the outline itself, so a school on a big reserve’s edge still counts.

• Linwood Park — Sports ground · 42 m to its edge
• Linwood Nursery · 215 m to its edge

Facilities nearby

Council facilities within 400 m of the school’s point — libraries, pools and centres a parent can walk to.

• Linwood Service Centre — Service centre · 155 m
• Linwood Library — Library · 319 m

The bus stop

The nearest stop the Metro map carries — measured to the school’s pin, not its gate.

• Eastgate Mall (Linwood Ave) — 63 m · route 140

The reports nearby

373 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 295 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Dumped Rubbish — Canterbury, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand · 29 September 2026
• Poles and Signage - General — 301 Linwood Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand · 29 August 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 309 Linwood Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand · 28 July 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 141 Smith Street, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand · 27 June 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 243 Linwood Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand · 1 June 2026
• Poles and Signage - General — 317 Linwood Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand · 30 May 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 18 Chelsea Street, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand · 12 May 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 244 Linwood Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand · 11 May 2026
• Trees - General — 315A Linwood Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand · 6 April 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 2A Chelsea Street, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand · 12 March 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 5 Cranley Street, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand · 24 February 2026
• Noise - General — 18 Chelsea Street, Linwood, Christchurch 8062, New Zealand · 6 February 2026

Under the ground

The plans and surveys the site keeps, asked once of the school’s ground — footprints and plan maps, not engineering findings.

• The February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over this point — mapped ground failure — a footprint, not a finding
• The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study