Springhills

Living in Springhills

Springhills is a Southland locality in the farming country northeast of Invercargill, where the name does exactly what it says and the hills in question have springs in them, as hills in wet Southland tend to. The locality sits in the gently rolling country that marks the transition from the flat Southland plain to the more varied terrain north of the city, and the springs and watercourses that the rising ground produces gave the locality its name with the accuracy that Southland's observational place-naming tradition preferred.

The farming around Springhills is the northern Invercargill hinterland model: dairy and sheep on the gently rolling country that the district's rainfall and the rising ground support, with the farming families running the operations that the productive Southland land makes viable. The locality sits close enough to Invercargill to be firmly within the city's service orbit while maintaining the rural character that the farming land produces.

Invercargill's full city range is within easy driving distance, making Springhills the outer-fringe farming community that the city's flat rural hinterland generates at the point where the ground starts to undulate and the springs appear. The quality of the water table is not in question.

Children from Springhills attend local Southland schools or Invercargill's primary network.

Schools & Enrolment Zones in Springhills

Schools in zone for Springhills

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

• Hedgehope School

  Full Primary · roll 53 · decile 9

• Central Southland College

  Secondary (Year 9-15) · roll 686 · decile 6

• St Thomas School (Winton)

  Full Primary · roll 89 · decile 9

• Southland Adventist Christian School

  Full Primary · roll 123 · decile 4

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