Glencoe

Living in Glencoe

Glencoe is a Southland locality carrying the name of the Scottish glen that became famous for the wrong reasons in 1692, when the Massacre of Glencoe made it one of the more loaded place names in Scottish history. The Southland settlers who applied it to their flat farming locality were presumably invoking the glen's beauty rather than its historical infamy, and the Southland Glencoe has managed to accumulate a completely clean record in the subsequent 150 years.

The farming around Glencoe is the eastern Southland plains model: sheep, beef and dairy on the flat to rolling country that the district's rainfall and improved pasture support, with the farming families managing the operations that Southland's agricultural economy has run continuously since the pastoral era's establishment. The locality sits in the eastern Southland farming country, serving the surrounding district from the crossroads and community infrastructure that small Southland localities maintain.

Gore provides the full service range for the Glencoe community, at the distances that eastern Southland farming accepts with the equanimity of a district that has always required its residents to drive. The school and hall infrastructure of a small Southland farming community provides the local social anchors.

Glencoe School holds the local primary years. Gore's colleges serve the secondary students. No massacres are anticipated.

Schools & Enrolment Zones in Glencoe

Schools in zone for Glencoe

Children living in Glencoe have a guaranteed right to enrol at these schools, based on Ministry of Education home zones.

• Hedgehope School

  Full Primary · roll 53 · decile 9

• Southland Adventist Christian School

  Full Primary · roll 123 · decile 4

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