Craighead Diocesan School
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Craighead Diocesan School in brief
Craighead Diocesan School is a medium state integrated girls' secondary school (Year 7–13) in Highfield, Timaru, with 415 students on the roll. Its Equity Index of 409 is among the lower values in New Zealand, meaning its students face fewer socio-economic barriers than most. EQI reflects funding need, not school quality. As a state-integrated school it enrols by preference for its special character rather than by home zone. It opened in 1911.
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Craighead Diocesan School
1 Wrights Avenue, Highfield, Timaru
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Craighead Diocesan School is a state-integrated school. Places go first to applicants with a preference connection to the school's special character (for example, a faith connection), so the usual in-zone and ballot rules don't apply in the same way. Where a geographic priority exists, it works within those preference criteria. Check the school's own enrolment scheme before relying on a zone result.
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How enrolment at Craighead Diocesan School works
- Craighead Diocesan School is a state-integrated school with an enrolment scheme. Admission turns first on its special-character preference criteria — a religious or philosophical connection the school sets out in its own scheme — before where you live. Within those criteria, the scheme must give priority to applicants for whom the school is reasonably convenient. When a priority group has more applicants than places, the school's scheme sets how it chooses between them, for example by distance or ballot.
- Year levels: Year 7–13
- Roll size: Medium school
- School website: craighead.school.nz
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What families ask about Craighead Diocesan School
- Does Craighead Diocesan School have an enrolment zone?
- Craighead Diocesan School is a state-integrated school, so places go first to applicants who meet its special-character preference criteria. Any geographic priority applies within those criteria, so an address alone doesn't decide it — check the school's own enrolment scheme.
- What year levels does Craighead Diocesan School teach?
- Craighead Diocesan School teaches Year 7–13.
- What is Craighead Diocesan School's Equity Index?
- The listed EQI is 409. EQI reflects socioeconomic barriers used for funding; it is not a school-quality score.
- How large is the school?
- The latest listed roll is 415 students.
- When was the latest listed ERO review?
- The latest review date in the public data is August 2023.
The basics
Ministry of Education records
- Teaching language
- All students taught in English/other setting
- Opened
- 1911
- Principal
- Lara Hearn-Rollo
- Urban/rural setting
- Medium urban area
- Donation requests
- May Be RequestedSchool may request voluntary donations
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