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TKKM o Te Whanau Tahi

Composite · State · Spreydon, Christchurch

234 students on the roll in Spreydon · EQI 494.

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 3. Current Equity Index: 494. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

  • 83 Lyttelton Street, Spreydon, Christchurch, 8244 — the street’s record
  • Its suburb: Spreydon — the suburb’s own record
  • Roll: 234 (September 2026)
  • Co-Educational
  • Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
  • Opened 1997
  • Isolation index 0.15 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
  • Instruction: All students taught in te reo Māori
  • Phone: 03-3374360
  • Email: mahanui@whanau-tahi.school.nz
  • Contact: Hayley May
  • Website: whanau-tahi.school.nz

Who the roll is

European 48 · 21%
Māori 227 · 97%
Pacific 35 · 15%
Asian 1 · 0%
MELAA 2 · 1%
Other 2 · 1%

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

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.

Facilities nearby

Council facilities within 400 m of the school’s point — libraries, pools and centres a parent can walk to.

  • Pioneer — Recreation centre · 143 m

The bus stop

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

  • Lyttelton St near Conway St — 115 m · route Oa

The reports nearby

9 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Roads & footpaths and Water & drains, 5 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

  • Water Leak — 108E Lyttelton Street, Spreydon, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 7 June 2026
  • Damaged Road — 99 Lyttelton Street, Spreydon, Christchurch, New Zealand · 2 May 2024
  • Graffiti — 102 Lyttelton Street, Somerfield, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 21 May 2023
  • Water Leak — 106 Lyttelton Street, Spreydon, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 13 October 2022
  • Water Leak — 108 Lyttelton Street, Spreydon, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 8 October 2022
  • Graffiti — 103 Lyttelton Street, Canterbury 8024, New Zealand · 2 November 2021
  • Rubbish/Recycling — 102 Lyttelton St, Somerfield, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 9 August 2019
  • Roading/Streets — 97 Lyttelton St, Somerfield, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand · 30 May 2018
  • Roading/Streets — 90, Lyttelton Street, Spreydon, 8024, Canterbury · 11 May 2016

Under the ground

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

Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 October 2026.

What stood on this ground before → · On the map →

Questions, answered briefly

What kind of school is TKKM o Te Whanau Tahi?

Composite · State · Co-Educational — in Spreydon.

How many students does TKKM o Te Whanau Tahi have?

234 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.

What is TKKM o Te Whanau Tahi's Equity Index?

EQI 494 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 3.

What is near TKKM o Te Whanau Tahi?

Centennial Park, Hoon Hay Scouts Reserve — green space within 400 m of the school’s point.