Avonhead School - Rakipaoa

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 7. Current Equity Index: 406. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 55 Avonhead Road, Avonhead, Christchurch, 8042 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Avonhead — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 614 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1959
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.24 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Cohort entry: Yes
• Phone: 03-3487361
• Email: principal@avonhead.school.nz
• Contact: Micah Hocquard
• Website: avonhead.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

• Avonhead School — in force from 2022-07-25 · 3 km²

It covers: Avonhead, Ilam, Sockburn, Upper Riccarton.

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

Other schools near here

• Villa Maria College — decile 9 · EQI 411 · 801 m
• St Thomas of Canterbury College — decile 8 · EQI 430 · 1.1 km
• Te Kāpehu Riccarton School — decile 3 · EQI 462 · 1.1 km
• Our Lady of Victories — decile 6 · EQI 376 · 1.3 km
• Te Parito Kōwhai Russley School — decile 7 · EQI 420 · 1.4 km
• Riccarton High School — decile 6 · EQI 440 · 1.4 km
• Merrin School Ngā Whetū Kohara — decile 8 · EQI 398 · 1.5 km
• Westburn Te Kura O Hereora — decile 9 · EQI 383 · 1.6 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.

• Ferrier Park — Sports ground · 130 m to its edge
• Corfe Reserve · 257 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Staveley St near Avonhead Rd — 352 m · route 130

The reports nearby

342 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Trees & parks and Roads & footpaths, 233 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Pavement - Damaged — 36 Avonhead Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 30 September 2026
• Damaged Street Light — Ferrier Park 56 Nortons Road, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 30 September 2026
• Pavement - General — 40 Avonhead Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 30 September 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General — 37A Balrudry Street, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 16 September 2026
• Pavement - General — 37A Balrudry Street, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 15 September 2026
• Street Cleaning — Ferrier Park 56 Nortons Road, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 2 September 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation — 88 Avonhead Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 1 September 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 49 Nortons Road, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 31 August 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 34 Avonhead Road, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 27 August 2026
• Graffiti on a playground or in a park — Ferrier Park 56 Nortons Road, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 2 August 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water — 82 Avonhead Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 30 July 2026
• Litter — 31 Balrudry St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 29 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.

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