Last updated November 2026
Highfield School is a state, co-educational full primary school for Years 1 to 8 at Rimu Street, Glenwood, Timaru. It opened in 1962 and had 321 students on its roll at 1 October 2026.
Its home zone includes parts of Glenwood, Highfield, Marchwiel and Gleniti; the zone map below shows the full boundary. The school runs Te Whare Maru, an on-site specialist programme for students with special needs funded through the Ongoing Resourcing Scheme. The site also covers composite classes, an outdoor pool, lunch orders and counselling support.
At a glance
- Principal
- Amy Logavatu
- Address
- Rimu Street, Glenwood, Timaru
- Phone
- 03 686 1419
Home zone
Parts of these suburbs: Glenwood, Highfield Timaru, Marchwiel Timaru and Gleniti Timaru: check your street.
Zone boundaries are set by the school’s enrolment scheme and can change. Confirm your address with the school before you rely on it.
Who goes here
Share of the 321 students who identify with each group. Students can name more than one, so these add up to more than 100%.
MELAA: Middle Eastern, Latin American and African.
Stand-downs and suspensions
Cases per 1,000 students in 2025, adjusted for the ages of the school’s students, compared with all New Zealand schools.
Suspensions: fewer than 5 cases in 2025, so no rate is shown.
These measure how a school responds to behaviour, and schools set their own thresholds, so they are not a measure of how students behave.
What ERO found
The Education Review Office’s latest report on the school is a Te Ara Huarau School Profile Report from August 2023.
A profile report sets out what ERO and the school will evaluate together rather than giving full achievement results. Here the focus is how well the school’s teaching and curriculum, which aim to be inclusive and culturally responsive, support the learning and wellbeing of a diverse roll, including students in the specialist classroom, neurodiverse students, Pacific students and Māori students.
ERO noted governance and leadership committed to inclusion and equity, a culture where students feel they belong, and teaching that is increasingly removing barriers to learning.
ERO said the school will now keep building teachers’ skills in inclusive, culturally responsive teaching, develop schoolwide plans and guidelines for it together, and keep reviewing how well its curriculum and teaching are working for diverse learners.
Read the ERO reports for Highfield School
Enrolling
Highfield School runs an enrolment scheme. Students who live in the home zone have the right to enrol. Out-of-zone places are announced each year in a local newspaper, and when there are more applicants than places a priority order applies, with a ballot.
Students accepted into Te Whare Maru come first in that order, and applications for the programme go through the school office.
The school’s enrolment page describes the zone boundary, links to a zone map and an online enrolment form, and lists the documents needed before a child starts.
Schools nearby
Where students go next
Based on home zones around the school’s own address. Families can apply to any school, and your own address decides which zones you are in.
In Highfield Timaru
Highfield School is in Highfield Timaru. Our suburb guide covers what it is like to live there, with parks, places and local businesses.
Read our Highfield Timaru guide →Questions parents ask
Is Highfield School zoned?
It has a home zone covering parts of Glenwood, Highfield Timaru, Marchwiel Timaru and Gleniti Timaru.
What years does it teach?
Years 1 to 8.
How many students go there?
321 at 1 Oct 2026.
Does it ask for donations?
No. It is in the donation scheme, so it only asks for donations for school camps.
What is its Equity Index?
477. The Ministry of Education’s Equity Index estimates the socio-economic barriers a school’s students face, from 344 (fewest) to 569 (most). It is used to share out funding, not as a measure of quality.
Updated automatically when the Ministry publishes new data.
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Sources and data notes 1
- School facts: School details and roll: Ministry of Education school directory, 7 Nov 2026 (CC BY 4.0). Home zone: Ministry of Education enrolment zones (CC BY 4.0). NCEA results, roll history and stand-downs: Education Counts, school leavers 2023 to 2025, stand-downs 2025, rolls 2021 to 2025 (CC BY 4.0).