Te Whirika Sara Cohen Specialist School
Specialist School · State · Calton Hill, Dunedin
81 students on the roll in Calton Hill · EQI 498.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 5. Current Equity Index: 498. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 38 Riselaw Road, Calton Hill, Dunedin, 9012
- Roll: 81 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1926
- Isolation index 0.16, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Phone: 03-4558347
- Email: office@saracohen.school.nz
- Contact: Barbara Dinnissen (Acting)
- Website: saracohen.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
- St Bernadette's School (Forbury), decile 6 · EQI 425 · 165 m
- Carisbrook School, decile 3 · EQI 520 · 397 m
- Bathgate Park School, decile 3 · EQI 510 · 752 m
- Queen's High School, decile 5 · EQI 463 · 881 m
- Kings High School (Dunedin), decile 7 · EQI 453 · 997 m
- St Francis Xavier School (Mornington), decile 9 · EQI 387 · 1.2 km
- St Clair School, decile 8 · EQI 422 · 1.3 km
- Balaclava School, decile 8 · EQI 428 · 1.7 km
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 October 2026.
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Questions, answered briefly
Specialist School · State · Co-Educational, in Calton Hill.
81 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 498, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 5.
38 Riselaw Road, Calton Hill, Dunedin. The school’s page here links its street, its suburb and the Ministry’s own entry.