Nova Montessori School

Its rating

Private — the Ministry does not rate private schools. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 53 Owles Terrace, New Brighton, Christchurch, 8061 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: New Brighton — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 37 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Not applicable
• Opened 1994
• Phone: 03-3820503
• Email: admin@novamontessori.school.nz
• Contact: Shubha Narayan
• Website: novamontessori.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.

Other schools near here

• New Brighton Catholic School (Chch) — decile 6 · EQI 445 · 534 m
• St James School (Aranui) — decile 1 · EQI 501 · 1.6 km
• Rāwhiti School — decile 3 · EQI 478 · 1.7 km
• South New Brighton School — decile 6 · EQI 454 · 1.9 km
• Shirley Boys' High School - Ngā Tama o Ōruapaeroa — decile 6 · EQI 464 · 2.3 km
• Haeata Community Campus — decile 1 · EQI 545 · 2.3 km
• Avonside Girls' High School — decile 6 · EQI 472 · 2.3 km
• Chisnallwood Intermediate — decile 5 · EQI 482 · 2.9 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.

• Withells Island Reserve · 25 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Hardy St near Beresford St — 211 m · routes 5, 110

The reports nearby

466 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Rubbish & dumping and Graffiti & vandalism, 366 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Animal - Deceased — 31 Wairoa St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 24 September 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 111 Beresford Street, New Brighton, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 22 September 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 135 Seaview Road, New Brighton, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 14 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — Canterbury, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 5 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 29F Wairoa Street, Bexley, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 1 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — Canterbury, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 30 August 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 10 Collingwood St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 20 August 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 62 Owles Terrace, Bexley, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 16 August 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 60 Owles Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 11 August 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 62 Owles Terrace, Bexley, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 26 July 2026
• Facility - General Request — 29F Wairoa St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 4 July 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 31–53 Owles Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 21 June 2026

Under the ground

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

• Graded TC3 ground — Green Zone, Technical Category 3, Blue
• The February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over this point — mapped ground failure — a footprint, not a finding
• The September 2010 survey drew liquefaction over this point — mapped ground failure — a footprint, not a finding
• Inside a modelled tsunami reach — ECAN Report R12/38 2012 · ECAN Report R14/78 2014
• On the plan’s flood map — Avon River — the managed reach
• Inside a recorded flood footprint — 2011-2014 Flooding - Mayoral Flood Taskforce
• The liquefaction model grades it “High Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study