Emmanuel Christian School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 8. Current Equity Index: 409. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 322A Sawyers Arms Road, Bishopdale, Christchurch, 8053 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Bishopdale — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 301 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations may be requested
• Opened 1987
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.25 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3593595
• Email: office@emmanuelchristian.school.nz
• Contact: Alistair McKinnon
• Website: emmanuelchristian.school.nz

Who the roll is

Students may identify with more than one group — the counts are the Ministry’s own and need not sum to the roll.

Enrolment zone

• Emmanuel Christian School — in force from 2026-01-01 · 153 km²

It covers: 30 suburbs — mostly Belfast, Bishopdale, Bottle Lake, Brooklands, Casebrook.

Indicative only — the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.

Other schools near here

• Cotswold Mātāhae School — decile 8 · EQI 419 · 431 m
• Bishopdale School Te Kura o Papakōhatu — decile 3 · EQI 521 · 1.1 km
• Casebrook Intermediate — decile 6 · EQI 466 · 1.3 km
• Breens Intermediate — decile 7 · EQI 443 · 1.3 km
• Te Kura o Te Mātāpuna Isleworth School — decile 5 · EQI 466 · 1.7 km
• Papanui High School — decile 7 · EQI 461 · 2.0 km
• Te Kura o Matarangi - Northcote School — decile 3 · EQI 533 · 2.1 km
• Marian College — decile 8 · EQI 426 · 2.1 km

The green nearby

Parks whose drawn outline sits within 400 m — measured to the outline itself, so a school on a big reserve’s edge still counts.

• Tulett Park — Sports ground · 146 m to its edge
• Stretton Reserve · 326 m to its edge

The bus stop

The nearest stop the Metro map carries — measured to the school’s pin, not its gate.

• Sawyers Arms Rd near Cotswold Ave — 126 m · routes 27, 107

The reports nearby

54 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Roads & footpaths and Graffiti & vandalism, 46 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Abandoned Vehicle — 6 Manuel Pl, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 17 August 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 49 Oldwood St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 5 July 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 3 Manuel Pl, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 29 June 2026
• Water Leak — 3 Manuel Pl, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 3 June 2026
• Road Signage — 338 Sawyers Arms Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 23 April 2026
• Graffiti on a playground or in a park — 38 Wychwood Crescent, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 7 April 2026
• Roads - General — 294 Sawyers Arms Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 7 February 2026
• Damaged Street Sign — 325 Sawyers Arms Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 31 December 2025
• Overgrown Vegetation — 290A Glasnevin Drive, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 29 October 2025
• Rubbish and Bins - General — 350 Sawyers Arms Road, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 7 February 2025
• Overgrown Vegetation — 293 Sawyers Arms Road, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 6 January 2025
• Pavement - Damaged — 88 Cotswold Avenue, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 21 December 2024

Under the ground

The plans and surveys the site keeps, asked once of the school’s ground — footprints and plan maps, not engineering findings.

• The February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over this point — mapped ground failure — a footprint, not a finding
• The liquefaction model grades it “Liquefaction Damage is Possible” — the 2019 screening study