Villa Maria College

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 9. Current Equity Index: 411. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 21 Peer Street, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, 8041 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Upper Riccarton — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 831 (September 2026)
• Girls School
• Donations may be requested
• Opened 1918
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.22 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3484165
• Email: villa@villa.school.nz
• Website: villa.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

• Villa Maria College — in force from 2023-01-01 · 13022 km²

It covers: most of Christchurch.

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

Other schools near here

• Te Kāpehu Riccarton School — decile 3 · EQI 462 · 626 m
• Avonhead School - Rakipaoa — decile 7 · EQI 406 · 801 m
• Riccarton High School — decile 6 · EQI 440 · 849 m
• Ilam School — decile 6 · EQI 394 · 1.0 km
• St Thomas of Canterbury College — decile 8 · EQI 430 · 1.1 km
• Our Lady of Victories — decile 6 · EQI 376 · 1.1 km
• Middleton Grange School — decile 9 · EQI 404 · 1.1 km
• Kahikatea Kirkwood Intermediate — decile 7 · EQI 430 · 1.5 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.

• Upper Riccarton Domain — Sports ground · 120 m to its edge
• Glebe Reserve — Botanic · 396 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Yaldhurst Rd near Ludecke Pl — 221 m · routes 86, 140

The reports nearby

100 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Roads & footpaths and Rubbish & dumping, 81 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Dumped Rubbish — 33 Peer Street, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 14 August 2026
• Road Signage — 10 Peer St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 19 July 2026
• Water Leak — Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 18 July 2026
• Water Leak — 18A Peer Street, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 1 July 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 28 Brodie St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 19 June 2026
• Street Light Outage — 33A Bowen Street, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 18 June 2026
• Street Light Outage — 33 Bowen St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 1 April 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water — 36 Peer St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 1 March 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 17 February 2026
• Pavement - General — 36 Peer St, ????, ?????? 8041, ??? · 6 February 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 42 Peer Street, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 13 January 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 33 Peer St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 5 January 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.

• The liquefaction model grades it “Low Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study