Tuia Burnside Primary School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 437. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 96 Memorial Avenue, Ilam, Christchurch, 8053 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Ilam — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 326 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1956
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.18 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3519407
• Email: office@burnsideprimary.school.nz
• Contact: Justin Perriam
• Website: burnsideprimary.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

• Burnside Primary School — in force from 2023-04-24 · 2 km²

It covers: 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

• Wairarapa Cobham Intermediate — decile 8 · EQI 405 · 300 m
• Christ The King School (Burnside) — decile 8 · EQI 369 · 575 m
• Burnside High School — decile 8 · EQI 416 · 686 m
• Westburn Te Kura O Hereora — decile 9 · EQI 383 · 881 m
• Tūora Fendalton School — decile 10 · EQI 371 · 897 m
• Medbury Preparatory School — private — not rated · 1.2 km
• Wairakei School (Christchurch) — decile 6 · EQI 478 · 1.5 km
• Ilam School — decile 6 · EQI 394 · 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.

• Jellie Park — Sports ground · 202 m to its edge
• Ryeland Reserve · 251 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Memorial Ave near Ilam Rd — 158 m · route 29

The reports nearby

149 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 114 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Street Cleaning — 253 Ilam Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 17 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 79A Memorial Avenue, Ilam, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 16 September 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation — 253 Ilam Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 9 September 2026
• Water Leak — 236 Ilam Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 2 September 2026
• Poles and Signage - General — 103 Memorial Avenue, Ilam, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 1 September 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 156 Hamilton Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 24 August 2026
• Water Leak — 92 Memorial Avenue, Ilam, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 21 August 2026
• Litter — 87 Memorial Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 13 August 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General — 74A Memorial Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 7 August 2026
• Pothole — 100 Memorial Avenue, Ilam, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 30 July 2026
• Pothole — 103 Memorial Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 25 July 2026
• Graffiti on a playground or in a park — 251 Ilam Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 24 July 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 recorded flood footprint — 2011-2014 Flooding - Mayoral Flood Taskforce
• The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study