Te Whānau o Ōtūmatua
Specialist School · State · Halswell, Christchurch
10 students on the roll in Halswell · EQI 540.
Located in Christchurch, Te Whānau o Ōtūmatua (OTM) is a time-limited special education intervention for children with complex behaviours who experience neurodiverse challenges such as ASD, intellectual impairments, specific learning disabilities, ADHD, and trauma, as well as a r — otumatua.school.nz
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 2. Current Equity Index: 540. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 15 Nash Road, Halswell, Christchurch, 8025 — the street’s record
- Its suburb: Halswell — the suburb’s own record
- Roll: 10 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1984
- Isolation index 0.27 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Boarding: Yes
- Phone: 03-3385089
- Email: annamccoy@halswellcollege.com
- Contact: Stephen Evans
- Website: otumatua.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
Aidanfield Christian School — decile 8 · EQI 377 · 223 m- Oaklands Te Kura o Ōwaka — decile 9 · EQI 410 · 1.1 km
- Te Mātaitihi (Proposed opening date: 2027-01-01) — not rated · 1.4 km
- Te Kōmanawa Rowley School — decile 1 · EQI 535 · 1.5 km
- Wigram Primary School - Te Piki Kāhu — decile 4 · EQI 392 · 1.7 km
- Te Kura Tuarua o Horomaka Hillmorton High School — decile 4 · EQI 467 · 2.0 km
- Southern Health School — decile 1 · EQI 569 · 2.2 km
Te Kura o Mōkihi Spreydon School — decile 3 · EQI 453 · 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.
- Mcmahon Reserve · 139 m to its edge
- Nga Puna Wai — Sports ground · 253 m to its edge
- Heathcote Esplanade Reserve · 289 m to its edge
- Mariposa Park · 317 m to its edge
- Nga Puna Wai Southwest Entrance · 326 m to its edge
- Mariposa Drainage Reserve · 337 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.
- Mt Magdala Cemetery — Cemetery · 138 m
The bus stop
The nearest stop the Metro map carries — measured to the school’s pin, not its gate.
- Aidenfield (near McMahon Dr) — 211 m · route 60
The register nearby
Heritage-register places within 300 m of the school’s point — what stood on the ground around it, or still does.
- Former Mount Magdala Chapel/ St John of God Chapel and Setting — 26A Nash Road
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 liquefaction model grades it “Liquefaction Damage is Possible” — the 2019 screening study
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
Specialist School · State · Co-Educational — in Halswell.
10 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 540 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 2.
Mcmahon Reserve, Nga Puna Wai, Heathcote Esplanade Reserve and 3 more — green space within 400 m of the school’s point.