Mairehau High School
Secondary (Year 9-15) · State · Christchurch
407 students on the roll · EQI 510 · an enrolment scheme in place.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 510. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- Hills Road, Christchurch, 8052
- Roll: 407 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1961
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.15 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Phone: 03-3853145
- Email: admin@mairehau.school.nz
- Contact: Siobhan Murphy (Acting)
- Website: mairehau.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
- Mairehau High School — in force from 2020-01-01 · 75 km²
It covers: Bottle Lake, Brooklands, Burwood, Dallington, Edgeware, Mairehau, Marshland, Ouruhia, Parklands, Richmond, Shirley, Spencerville, Waimairi Beach — and the fringes of Avondale, Belfast, Christchurch Central, Kainga, North New Brighton.
Indicative only — the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.
Other schools near here
- Mairehau Primary School — decile 6 · EQI 466 · 773 m
- St Francis of Assisi Catholic School — decile 8 · EQI 408 · 974 m
- Te Hiwa Shirley Primary School — decile 3 · EQI 494 · 1.6 km
- Te Oraka — decile 4 · EQI 505 · 1.9 km
St Albans School — decile 8 · EQI 414 · 2.0 km
St Albans Catholic School (Christchurch) — decile 9 · EQI 394 · 2.1 km- Pareawa Banks Avenue School — decile 4 · EQI 466 · 2.3 km
Papanui Primary School — decile 6 · EQI 452 · 2.4 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.
- Walter Park — Sports ground · 76 m to its edge
- Havana Gardens Reserve · 279 m to its edge
- Teagarden Reserve · 359 m to its edge
- Edgeware Tennis Club · 362 m to its edge
The bus stop
The nearest stop the Metro map carries — measured to the school’s pin, not its gate.
- Innes Rd near Hills Rd — 163 m · routes 44, Oa
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 “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 · Co-Educational.
407 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 510 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.
1 zone polygon on record — it covers 13 suburbs, mostly Bottle Lake, Brooklands, Burwood, Dallington. The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.