Pine Hill School (Dunedin)

Pine Hill School (Dunedin) is a co-educational contributing school in Dunedin, within the Otago Region, operating in the state sector, with 54 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 509. The school has been open since 1872.

With 54 students on roll, Pine Hill School (Dunedin) is a small school — larger than about 16% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 509, which is above the national average of 463. A higher Equity Index signals greater socio-economic need in the school's community — schools in this band receive more targeted government funding and support. The gap of 46 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

The roll is genuinely diverse: no single ethnic group dominates, with European at 53.8% and Middle Eastern / Latin American / African at 19.2%. Diversity of this kind is common in urban New Zealand schools.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.14 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.