Southern Health School

Southern Health School is a co-educational specialist school school in Christchurch, within the Canterbury Region, operating in the state sector, with 20 students on roll, and an Equity Index of 569. The school has been open since 2000.

With 20 students on roll, Southern Health School is a very small school — larger than about 6% of New Zealand schools.

The school's Equity Index is 569, which is well 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 106 points is substantial enough to matter when comparing schools.

94.1% of students identify as European, so the school has a strongly homogeneous roll. Students of Pasifika descent make up 5.9%.

On the isolation index the school scores 0.2 (low isolation) — this measures how far students travel and how accessible the school is, not how good it is.