As with the previous post, this is a rough map of where the school closures are on a map of social deprivation in Christchurch. I say rough as the map doesn’t come with roads, so I’ve had to correlate the two. Deprivation data is from 2006, from the Christchurch City Council’s website. Blue is least deprived, yellow is most deprived. It’s pretty easy to see that most of the closures and mergers (which are closures by another name) are in the yellow parts of the city. Even in the closure in the Ilam electorate, they’ve managed to target the one school in the most deprived part of Burnside!
I’ve added an asterix to denote the Aranui cluster, a decision on which was put off today. But remember, they want to merge 5 schools into one, in the poorest part of town.
The N!’s represent new schools, but I can’t put them any where meaningful as we don’t know where they will go at this point.
Very revealing – great work
Reblogged this on SaveOurSchoolsNZ and commented:
“Blue is least deprived, yellow is most deprived. It’s pretty easy to see that most of the closures and mergers (which are closures by another name) are in the yellow parts of the city. “
Have to admit I’m not seeing that pattern. A lot of the schools with reprieves seem to fall in the ‘more deprived’ areas, merges seem relatively evenly distributed. Give the age of the deprivation data (bring on the Census!) and the massive population shifts in Christchurch over the last few years, this map just invites people to read what they want into it.
A fairer analysis would be to look at the school catchments over the deprivation index weighted by population and the school’s roll.