Timaru Boys' High School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 7. Current Equity Index: 457. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 211 North Street, West End, Timaru, 7940
• Roll: 793 (September 2026)
• Boys School
• Donations may be requested
• Opened 1880
• Isolation index 0.68, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Boarding: Yes
• Setting: Medium urban area
• Phone: 03-6877560
• Email: tbhs@timaruboys.school.nz
• Contact: Dave Thorp
• Website: timaruboys.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.

Other schools near here

• Bluestone School, decile 5 · EQI 474 · 364 m
• Timaru Christian School, decile 8 · EQI 446 · 406 m
• Timaru Girls' High School, decile 6 · EQI 474 · 1.3 km
• Roncalli College, decile 7 · EQI 446 · 1.3 km
• Craighead Diocesan School, decile 9 · EQI 409 · 1.4 km
• Sacred Heart School (Timaru), decile 5 · EQI 438 · 1.5 km
• Waimataitai School, decile 6 · EQI 464 · 1.5 km
• Highfield School, decile 7 · EQI 477 · 1.7 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.

• North Street / Otipua Road Green Area, Reserve · 212 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.

• Lovelock Statue And Oak Tree Memorial, Monument · 22 m