Timaru Girls' High School
Secondary (Year 9-15) · State · Timaru
484 students on the roll · EQI 474.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 6. Current Equity Index: 474. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- Cain Street, Timaru, 7940
- Roll: 484 (September 2026)
- Girls School
- Donations may be requested
- Opened 1880
- Isolation index 0.7, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Boarding: Yes
- Setting: Medium urban area
- Phone: 03-6881122
- Email: principal@timarugirls.school.nz
- Contact: Deb Hales
- Website: timarugirls.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
- Roncalli College, decile 7 · EQI 446 · 320 m
- Sacred Heart School (Timaru), decile 5 · EQI 438 · 526 m
- Timaru South School, decile 2 · EQI 511 · 563 m
- Timaru Boys' High School, decile 7 · EQI 457 · 1.3 km
- Timaru Christian School, decile 8 · EQI 446 · 1.3 km
- Bluestone School, decile 5 · EQI 474 · 1.6 km
- Waimataitai School, decile 6 · EQI 464 · 2.0 km
- Craighead Diocesan School, decile 9 · EQI 409 · 2.4 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.
- Aynsley / Rhodes Street Reserve · 274 m to its edge
- Harper / College Road Reserve · 282 m to its edge
- Anzac Square, Sports ground · 335 m to its edge
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 October 2026.
What stood on this ground before → · On the map →
Questions, answered briefly
Secondary (Year 9-15) · State · Girls School.
484 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 474, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 6.
Aynsley / Rhodes St Reserve, Harper / College Rd Reserve, Anzac Square, green space within 400 m of the school’s point.