List of schools in Christchurch

There are 152 schools in Christchurch, New Zealand's second most-populous city, serving approximately 57,500 primary and secondary school students.^[1] Most schools are large urban schools based in the city of Christchurch itself, including some of the largest in the country, with several small rural primary schools and a combined primary/secondary school on Banks Peninsula.

In New Zealand schools, students begin formal education in Year 1 at the age of five.^[2] Year 13 the final year of formal education. The thirteen years of formal education are generally broken up into primary education (Years 1 to 8) and secondary education (Years 9 to 13). In Christchurch, primary education is generally served by a combination of contributing primary schools (Years 1–6), full primary schools (Years 1–8), and intermediate schools (Years 7 and 8), while secondary schools serving Years 9-13 cater for secondary education. There are also a smaller number of combined intermediate and secondary schools serving Years 7-13; composite schools (combined primary and secondary schools) serving Years 1-13; special schools serving children with visual, hearing and intellectual impairments, learning difficulties and behaviourial problems; and teen parent units, providing education and support for teenage parents.

State schools are those fully funded by the government and at which no fees for tuition of domestic students (i.e. New Zealand citizens and permanent residents, and Australian citizens) can be charged, although a donation is commonly requested.^[3] A state integrated school is a former private school with a special character based on a religious or philosophical belief that has been integrated into the state system. State integrated schools charge "attendance dues" to cover the building and maintenance of school buildings, which are not owned by the government, but otherwise they like state schools cannot charge fees for tuition of domestic students but may request a donation. Private schools charge fees to its students for tuition, as do state and state integrated schools for tuition of international students.^[4] In Christchurch, approximately 77 percent of students attend state schools, 15.5 percent attend state integrated schools, and 7.5 percent attend private schools.^[1]

The roll of each school changes frequently as students start school for the first time, move between schools, and graduate or drop out. The rolls given here are those provided by the Ministry of Education, and are based on figures from July 2016.^[5] The Ministry of Education institution number links to the Te Kete Ipurangi page for each school.

Note that due to the effects of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, some schools that were located in the central city and the eastern suburbs of the city have temporarily moved to other locations due to structural and/or land damage at their existing sites, and these changes are noted below. Throughout 2013, the state school network in Christchurch has been reviewed by the Government, with six schools due to close, six schools merging to form three schools, and another three schools adding years in January 2014.

Primary schools

Contributing primary schools (Year 1–6)

The 37 contributing primary schools cover the first six years of primary education, from age 5 to age 11. Students normally progress afterwards to an intermediate school, though some may go to a combined intermediate and secondary school. The majority are state schools, but there are two integrated contributing primary schools.

Name	MOE	Gender	Location	Authority	Roll	Website	Notes
Addington School	3271	Coed	Addington	State	244
Avondale School	3286	Coed	Avondale	State	209
Banks Avenue School	3289	Coed	Dallington	State	351
Bishopdale School	3293	Coed	Bishopdale	State	116
Bromley School	3302	Coed	Bromley	State	354
Burnside Primary School	3305	Coed	Burnside	State	252
Cotswold School	3324	Coed	Bishopdale	State	520
Duvauchelle School	3332	Coed	Akaroa	State	28	–
Elmwood Normal School	3334	Coed	Merivale	State	506
Fendalton Open Air School	3338	Coed	Burnside	State	448
Gilberthorpe School	3346	Coed	Hei Hei	State	128
Harewood School	3370	Coed	Harewood	State	165
Hoon Hay School	3379	Coed	Hoon Hay	State	433
Hornby Primary School	3380	Coed	Hornby	State	212
Ilam School	3384	Coed	Ilam	State	471
Isleworth School	3385	Coed	Bishopdale	State	304
Linwood Avenue School	3413	Coed	Linwood	State	285
Linwood North School	3415	Coed	Linwood	State	221
Northcote School	3449	Coed	Redwood	State	121
Papanui School	3466	Coed	Papanui	State	240
Paparoa Street School	3467	Coed	Papanui	State	512
Redwood School	3484	Coed	Redwood	State	321
Rowley Avenue School	3492	Coed	Hoon Hay	State	92
Roydvale School	3493	Coed	Burnside	State	265
Shirley School	3504	Coed	Shirley	State	367
Sockburn School	3505	Coed	Wigram	State	175
Somerfield School	3506	Coed	Somerfield	State	461
South Hornby School	3507	Coed	Hornby	State	232
Spreydon School	3512	Coed	Hillmorton	State	296
St Albans Catholic School	3517	Coed	St Albans	Integrated	94		Catholic
St Albans School	3518	Coed	St Albans	State	533
St James School	3523	Coed	Aranui	Integrated	105		Catholic
Thorrington School	3557	Coed	Cashmere	State	427
Waimairi School	3571	Coed	Strowan	State	466
Wairakei School	3577	Coed	Bryndwr	State	246
Waitākiri Primary School	685	Coed	Burwood	State	625
West Spreydon School	3588	Coed	Spreydon	State	275

Full primary schools (Year 1–8)

Name	MOE	Gender	Location	Authority	Roll	Website	Notes
Aranui School	3279	Coed	Aranui	State	191
Avonhead School	3287	Coed	Avonhead	State	576
Bamford School	3288	Coed	Woolston	State	138
Beckenham School	3291	Coed	Beckenham	State	433
Belfast School	3292	Coed	Belfast	State	484
Cashmere Primary School	3310	Coed	Cashmere	State	454
Cathedral Grammar School	368	Coed	Central City	Private	235		Anglican
Christ The King School	3316	Coed	Burnside	Integrated	307		Catholic
Christchurch East School	3317	Coed	Central City	State	247
Diamond Harbour School	3327	Coed	Diamond Harbour	State	145
Governors Bay School	3354	Coed	Governors Bay	State	66
Halswell School	3366	Coed	Halswell	State	618
Heathcote Valley School	3371	Coed	Heathcote Valley	State	240
Jean Seabrook Memorial School	2126	Coed	Richmond	Private	17	–
Little River School	3418	Coed	Little River	State	116
Lyttelton Primary School	686	Coed	Lyttelton	State	210
Mairehau School	3425	Coed	Mairehau	State	428
Marshland School	3429	Coed	Marshland	State	339
Medbury School	4118	Boys	Fendalton	Private	334		Boarding
Merrin School	3434	Coed	Avonhead	State	434
Mount Pleasant School	3443	Coed	Mt Pleasant	State	362
New Brighton Catholic School	3445	Coed	New Brighton	Integrated	160		Catholic
Nova Montessori School	1582	Coed	New Brighton	Private	48		Montessori education
Oaklands School	3450	Coed	Oaklands	State	605
Okains Bay School	3452	Coed	Okains Bay	State	10	–
Opawa School	3455	Coed	Opawa	State	370
Our Lady of the Assumption School	3461	Coed	Hoon Hay	Integrated	280		Catholic
Our Lady of Victories School	3463	Coed	Sockburn	Integrated	174		Catholic
Ouruhia Model School	3464	Coed	Ouruhia	State	70
Parkview School	3470	Coed	Parklands	State	370
Queenspark School	3479	Coed	Parklands	State	515
Rawhiti School	696	Coed	New Brighton	State	535
Redcliffs School	3483	Coed	Redcliffs	State	187
Riccarton School	3485	Coed	Sockburn	State	259
Russley School	3496	Coed	Avonhead	State	419
Sacred Heart School	3270	Coed	Addington	Integrated	173		Catholic
Selwyn House School	4138	Girls	Merivale	Private	176		Boarding
Seven Oaks School	610	Coed	Waltham	Private	47
South New Brighton School	3508	Coed	New Brighton	State	469
St Anne's School	3520	Coed	Woolston	Integrated	101		Catholic
St Bernadette's School	3521	Coed	Hornby	Integrated	115		Catholic
St Francis of Assisi Catholic School	738	Coed	Mairehau	Integrated	349		Catholic
St Joseph's School	3531	Coed	Papanui	Integrated	417		Catholic
St Mark's School	4135	Coed	Opawa	Integrated	194		Anglican
St Martins School	3534	Coed	St Martins	State	525
St Mary's School	3535	Coed	Central City	Integrated	82		Catholic
St Michael's Church School	4136	Coed	Central City	Private	54		Anglican
St Patrick's School	3537	Coed	Bryndwr	Integrated	160		Catholic
St Peter's School	3542	Coed	Beckenham	Integrated	133		Catholic
St Teresa's School	3543	Coed	Riccarton	Integrated	170		Catholic
Star of the Sea School	3544	Coed	Sumner	Integrated	64		Catholic
Sumner School	3546	Coed	Sumner	State	446
Tamariki School	4143	Coed	Woolston	Integrated	44		Special Character school, based on principles of A.S. Neill
Templeton School	3555	Coed	Templeton	State	346
Te Waka Unua School	684	Coed	Woolston	State	432
Wainoni School	3575	Coed	Wainoni	State	85	–
Waltham School	3581	Coed	Waltham	State	196
Westburn School	3589	Coed	Ilam	State	485
Wharenui School	3591	Coed	Riccarton	State	187
Yaldhurst Model School	3602	Coed	Yaldhurst	State	127		Focus on hands on, discovery, fun, agency

Intermediate schools (Years 7–8)

Name	MOE	Gender	Location	Authority	Roll	Website	Notes
Breens Intermediate	3299	Coed	Bishopdale	State	272
Casebrook Intermediate	3309	Coed	Casebrook	State	353
Chisnallwood Intermediate	3314	Coed	Avondale	State	631
Christchurch South Intermediate	3318	Coed	Spreydon	State	526
Cobham Intermediate	3323	Coed	Burnside	State	626
Heaton Normal Intermediate	3372	Coed	Merivale	State	565
Kirkwood Intermediate	3396	Coed	Riccarton	State	315
Shirley Intermediate	3503	Coed	Shirley	State	165

Secondary schools

Year 7–13

Name	MOE	Gender	Location	Authority	Roll	Website	Notes
Catholic Cathedral College	531	Coed	Central City	Integrated	397		Catholic
Hillmorton High School	339	Coed	Hillmorton	State	711		[6]
Hornby High School	338	Coed	Hornby	State	653		[7]
Linwood College	337	Coed	Linwood	State	700		[8]
Rangi Ruru Girls' School	325	Girls	Merivale	Private	602		Presbyterian, Boarding
St Thomas of Canterbury College	331	Boys	Sockburn	Integrated	601		Catholic
Villa Maria College	326	Girls	Upper Riccarton	Integrated	801		Catholic

Year 9–13

Christchurch Boys' High School

The fourteen Year 9–13 secondary schools in Christchurch serve all five years of secondary education. They are a mixture of state, integrated and private schools, both coeducational and single sex.

Name	MOE	Gender	Location	Authority	Roll	Website	Notes
Aranui High School	323	Coed	Aranui	State	338
Avonside Girls' High School	324	Girls	Avonside	State	852
Burnside High School	319	Coed	Burnside	State	2521		Largest school (by roll) in the South Island
Cashmere High School	340	Coed	Cashmere	State	1914
Christchurch Boys' High School	327	Boys	Fendalton	State	1382		Boarding
Christchurch Girls' High School	328	Girls	Riccarton	State	1107		Boarding
Christ's College	330	Boys	Central City	Private	602		Anglican, Boarding
Hagley Community College	336	Coed	Central City	State	2127
Mairehau High School	320	Coed	Mairehau	State	369
Marian College	343	Girls	Central City[nb 1]	Integrated	392		Catholic
Papanui High School	316	Coed	Papanui	State	1580
Riccarton High School	334	Coed	Sockburn	State	1001
Seven Oaks Secondary School	695	Coed	Opawa	Private	10		[9]
Shirley Boys' High School	321	Boys	Shirley	State	1225
St Bede's College	315	Boys	Papanui	Integrated	812		Catholic, Boarding

Composite schools

St Andrew's College

The eleven composite schools in Christchurch each cover both primary and secondary education. The majority of them are private or state-integrated, although four are state schools, including two Kura Kaupapa Māori and an area school in Akaroa.

Name	MOE	Gender	Location	Authority	Roll	Website	Notes
Aidanfield Christian School	82	Coed	Aidanfield	Integrated	262		Nondenominational Christian
Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery	683	Coed	Ilam/Aidanfield[nb 2]	State	442		Designated Character (s156)
Akaroa Area School	350	Coed	Akaroa	State	127
Christchurch Adventist School	317	Coed	Papanui	Integrated	220		Seventh-day Adventist
Emmanuel Christian School	1168	Coed	Bishopdale	Integrated	162		Nondenominational Christian
Hillview Christian School	341	Coed	St Martins	Integrated	519		Nondenominational Christian
Middleton Grange School	335	Coed	Upper Riccarton	Integrated	1356		Nondenominational Christian
Rudolf Steiner School	419	Coed	Opawa	Integrated	359		Waldorf education
St Andrew's College	318	Coed	Strowan	Private	1422		Presbyterian, Boarding
St Margaret's College	333	Girls	Merivale	Private	722		Anglican, Boarding
TKKM o Te Whanau Tahi	1618	Coed	Spreydon	State	147	–	Kura Kaupapa Māori
TKKM o Waitaha	4212	Coed	Waltham	State	57		Kura Kaupapa Māori
Te Pa o Rakaihautu	706	Coed	Richmond	State	177		Kura Kaupapa Māori. Designated Character (s156) Opened January 2015

Special schools and teen parent units

Name	MOE	Type	Gender	Location	Authority	Roll	Website	Notes
Allenvale Special School and Residential Centre	3275	Intellectual impairments	Coed	Bryndwr	State	134
Ferndale School	3339	Intellectual impairments	Coed	Merivale	State	101
Halswell Residential College	522	Intellectual impairments	Boys	Aidanfield	State	13
Kimihia Parents' College	2761	Teen Parent Unit		Woolston	State	[nb 3]
Kingslea School	518	Learning / Social Difficulties	Coed	Shirley	State	67
Southern Regional Health School	1631	Hospital school	Coed	Central City	State	9
Van Asch College	519	Deaf / Hearing-impaired	Coed	Sumner	State	28
Waitaha Learning Centre	3554	Intellectual impairments	Coed	Templeton	State	63

Former schools

• Aorangi School in Bryndwr closed on 27 January 2010, with pupils disbursing to other schools.^[10]
• Birch Grove School – closed and merged with Mairehau School, April 2004^[11]
• Branston Intermediate, state intermediate at Hornby, closed in January 2014 as part of state school network review.^[12]
• Burwood School, state contributing primary at Burwood, merged with Windsor School in January 2014 to form Waitakiri Primary School.^[13]
• Central New Brighton School, state full primary in New Brighton, merged with Freeville School and North New Brighton School in January 2015 to form Rawhiti School.^[14]
• Christchurch West High School, amalgamated with Technical High School in 1965 to become Hagley High School (now Hagley Community College)
• Freeville School, state full primary in New Brighton, merged with Central New Brighton School and North New Brighton School in January 2015 to form Rawhiti School.^[14]
• Glenelg Health Came School, Hillsborough – closed January 2012.^[15]
• Glenmoor School, state contributing primary at Mairehau, closed in January 2014 as part of state school network review.^[16]
• Hammersley Park School, state contributing primary in Shirley – closed voluntarily in January 2013 due to declining roll numbers and uneconomic costs to repair earthquake damage.^[17][18]
• Kendal School, state contributing primary at Burnside, closed in January 2014 as part of state school network review.^[19]
• Le Bons Bay School, state full primary on Banks Peninsula – closed voluntarily in January 2013 due to declining roll numbers.^[20][21]
• Linwood Intermediate, state intermediate at Linwood, closed in January 2014 as part of state school network review.^[22]
• Lyttelton Main School, state full primary in Lyttelton, merged with Lyttelton West School in May 2014 to form Lyttelton Primary School.^[23]
• Lyttelton West School, state full primary in Lyttelton, merged with Lyttelton Main School in May 2014 to form Lyttelton Primary School.^[23]
• Manning Intermediate, state intermediate at Hoon Hay, closed in January 2014 as part of state school network review.^[24]
• Marylands School
• McKenzie Residential School, special school for learning and social difficulties in Russley, closed in January 2013.^[11]
• North New Brighton School, state full primary in New Brighton, merged with Freeville School and Central New Brighton School in January 2015 to form Rawhiti School.^[14]
• Our Lady of Fatima School, state-integrated Catholic full primary in Mairehau – merged with St Paul's School in January 2016 to form St Francis of Assisi Catholic School.
• Richmond School, state contributing primary at Richmond, closed in January 2014 as part of state school network review.^[25]
• Sacred Heart College, opened 1959, amalgamated with Xavier College in 1987 to form Catholic Cathedral College.^[26][27]
• St Joseph's School, Barbadoes St, Christchurch.
• St Paul's School, state-integrated Catholic full primary in Dallington – school site was red-zoned after 2011 earthquake and temporarily moved to Edgeware; merged with Our Lady of Fatima School in January 2016 to form St Francis of Assisi Catholic School.
• Sydenham School, once the largest school in New Zealand, stood on the corner of Colombo and Brougham Streets. Closed December 2000.^[28]
• St Joseph's School, Lyttelton, closed January 2009.^[29]
• Xavier College, opened 1945, amalgamated with Sacred Heart College in 1987 to form Catholic Cathedral College.^[27][30]
• Windsor School, state contributing primary at Burwood, merged with Burwood School in January 2014 to form Waitakiri Primary School.^[13]

2013 state school network review

During 2013, Education Minister Hekia Parata announced a multitude of proposed changes to the state school network in Christchurch. In addition, Parata announced changes to some schools in the Selwyn and Waimakariri Districts.^[31][32]

In January 2014, six schools closed, four schools merged into two, and three schools added years in the first phase of changes. A third merger between Lyttelton Main School and Lyttelton West School took effective on 5 May 2014.

The minister also confirmed and gazetted that Phillipstown School and Woolston School would merge on the Woolston site in January 2014.^[33] However, in June 2013, Phillipstown School asked the High Court for a judicial review, claiming Parata had acted illegally and made errors in her decision to close and merge the school. The review was accepted by the court,^[34] and the hearing began on 30 September 2013. On 10 October 2013, the High Court ruled in favour of Phillipstown School and overruled the Minister's decision.^[35] However, the merger went ahead, and on 2 February 2015, Te Waka Unua opened as the merged school on the site of the former Woolston School.^[36]

The following changes have been confirmed, but have yet to be gazetted.

• Aranui School, Avondale School, Wainoni School and Aranui High School will merge to become a Year 1–13 composite school on the Aranui High site in January 2017.^[37]
• Central New Brighton School, Freeville School and North New Brighton School will merge on the North New Brighton site in January 2015.^[37]

These proposed changes have been announced, but have yet to be confirmed:^[31]

• Banks Avenue School would relocate to a new site in a yet-to-be-determined location.
• Linwood College would relocate to its lower sports fields opposite the current Woolson School on Ferry Road.
• Marshland School would relocate to a new site in the Prestons residential development, approximately 600 metres east-south-east of its existing site.
• Ouhuria Model School would relocate to a new site in western Belfast around 2016.
• Sockburn School would relocate to a new site on the corner of The Runway and Kittyhawk Avenue in the Wigram Skies residential development.
• South Hornby School would relocate to the former Branston Intermediate site.
• Spreydon School would relocate to the former Manning Intermediate site.
• A new school would be built in western Halswell.

Footnotes

Notes

1. Marian College is currently based in the spare capacity at Catholic Cathedral College, after damage and liquefaction from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake deemed the existing site in Shirley unusable until at least 2014.
2. Years 1 to 8 are currently based at Halswell Residential College. Years 9 to 13 are currently based at the University of Canterbury's Dovedale campus. Both of these sites are temporary until a new permanent site in the central city is found.
3. Teen Parent Unit rolls are returned with their host school. In the case of Kimihia Parent's College, the host school is Linwood College.

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External links

• Te Kete Ipurangi Ministry of Education website
• ERO school and early childhood education reports Education Review Office
• Decile change 2007 to 2008 for state & state integrated schools