Ngutuawa School
Full Primary · State · Woolston, Christchurch
132 students on the roll in Woolston · EQI 526 · an enrolment scheme in place.
Nau mai, Haere mai Ngutuawa SchoolNgutuawa School is uniquely located with the estuary and river at its doorstep. We are the "jewel in the crown" of... — bamford.school.nz
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 3. Current Equity Index: 526. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 10 Gould Crescent, Woolston, Christchurch, 8023 — the street’s record
- Its suburb: Woolston — the suburb’s own record
- Roll: 132 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1952
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.17 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Phone: 03-9820206
- Email: office@ngutuawa.school.nz
- Contact: Rebekah McLeod (Acting)
- Website: bamford.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
- Ngutuawa School — in force from 2021-01-01 · 3 km²
It covers: Ferrymead, Woolston.
Indicative only — the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.
Other schools near here
- St Anne's School (Woolston) — decile 3 · EQI 447 · 446 m
- Tamariki School — decile 4 · EQI 464 · 866 m
- Mastery Schools New Zealand - Arapaki — EQI 434 · 1.1 km
- Te Waka Unua School — decile 2 · EQI 509 · 1.5 km
- Kimihia Parents' College — decile 1 · EQI 569 · 1.5 km
Te Kura o Ōpāwaho – Opawa School — decile 4 · EQI 463 · 1.9 km- Te Ahuwai Bromley School — decile 3 · EQI 513 · 2.0 km
- St Mark's School (Christchurch) — decile 10 · EQI 398 · 2.3 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.
- Gould Reserve · 79 m to its edge
- Staunton Esplanade Reserve · 136 m to its edge
- Heathcote Riverbank True Right · 161 m to its edge
- Palinurus Reserve · 287 m to its edge
- Roundabout Reserve · 301 m to its edge
- Tunnel Road Reserve · 347 m to its edge
The bus stop
The nearest stop the Metro map carries — measured to the school’s pin, not its gate.
- Ferry Rd near Alport Place — 217 m · routes 3, 155
The register nearby
Heritage-register places within 300 m of the school’s point — what stood on the ground around it, or still does.
- Dwelling and Setting, Whalebone Cottage — 704 Ferry Road
The reports nearby
785 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Rubbish & dumping and Graffiti & vandalism, 619 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.
- Dumped Rubbish — 801 Ferry Road, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 6 October 2026
Abandoned Vehicle — 23 Rutherford St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 24 September 2026
Graffiti on a playground or in a park — 28 Gould Crescent, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 21 September 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 32 Gould Cres, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 19 September 2026
Dumped Rubbish — 45 Bamford Street, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 16 September 2026
Dumped Rubbish — 24 Rutherford St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 10 September 2026
Abandoned Vehicle — 23 Rutherford St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 9 September 2026
Dumped Rubbish — 27 Rutherford Street, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 9 September 2026
Graffiti on a playground or in a park — 30 Bamford Street, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 8 September 2026
Graffiti on a playground or in a park — 35 Rutherford Street, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 2 September 2026
Graffiti on a playground or in a park — 25 Rutherford Street, Woolston, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 2 September 2026
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge — 32 Gould Cres, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 30 August 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.
- Inside a modelled tsunami reach — ECAN Report R12/38 2012
- On the plan’s flood map — Heathcote River — the managed reach
- 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
Full Primary · State · Co-Educational — in Woolston.
132 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 526 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 3.
1 zone polygon on record — it covers Ferrymead, Woolston. The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.