St Bede's College
Secondary (Year 9-15) · State : Integrated · Papanui, Christchurch
795 students on the roll in Papanui · EQI 415 · an enrolment scheme in place.
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Its rating
Final decile (2022): 9. Current Equity Index: 415. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 210 Main North Road, Papanui, Christchurch, 8542 — the street’s record
- Its suburb: Papanui — the suburb’s own record
- Roll: 795 (September 2026)
- Boys School
- Donations may be requested
- Opened 1911
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.19 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Boarding: Yes
- Phone: 03-3750647
- Email: office@stbedes.school.nz
- Contact: Jon McDowall
- Website: stbedes.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
- St Bede's College — in force from 2025-04-28 · 163 km²
It covers: 34 suburbs — mostly Belfast, Bishopdale, Bottle Lake, Bryndwr, Burnside.
Indicative only — the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.
Other schools near here
Marian College — decile 8 · EQI 426 · 385 m
Papanui Primary School — decile 6 · EQI 452 · 498 m- St Joseph's School (Papanui) — decile 9 · EQI 395 · 550 m
- Te Kura o Matarangi - Northcote School — decile 3 · EQI 533 · 570 m
- Casebrook Intermediate — decile 6 · EQI 466 · 1.1 km
- Papanui High School — decile 7 · EQI 461 · 1.1 km
- Redwood School (Christchurch) — decile 8 · EQI 443 · 1.2 km
- Bishopdale School Te Kura o Papakōhatu — decile 3 · EQI 521 · 1.7 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.
- Ramore Reserve · 274 m to its edge
- Momorangi Reserve · 283 m to its edge
- Papanui Pool Reserve — Sports ground · 320 m to its edge
The bus stop
The nearest stop the Metro map carries — measured to the school’s pin, not its gate.
- Main North Rd near Queen Elizabeth II Dr — 127 m · routes 1, 95, 107, 125
Under the ground
The plans and surveys the site keeps, asked once of the school’s ground — footprints and plan maps, not engineering findings.
- On the plan’s flood map — Lower Styx River — the managed reach
- On made ground — Peat
- The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study
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
Secondary (Year 9-15) · State : Integrated · Boys School — in Papanui.
795 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 415 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 9.
1 zone polygon on record — it covers 23 suburbs, mostly Belfast, Bishopdale, Bottle Lake, Bryndwr. The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.