St Thomas of Canterbury College

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 8. Current Equity Index: 430. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 69 Middlepark Road, Sockburn, Christchurch, 8443 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Sockburn — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 686 (September 2026)
• Boys School
• Donations may be requested
• Opened 1961
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.22 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Instruction: Some students taught in a Pacific language
• Boarding: Yes
• Phone: 03-3487010
• Email: staff@stc.school.nz
• Contact: Steve Hart
• Website: stc.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

• St Thomas of Canterbury College — in force from 2025-01-01 · 13199 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

• Our Lady of Victories — decile 6 · EQI 376 · 373 m
• Te Kāpehu Riccarton School — decile 3 · EQI 462 · 640 m
• Riccarton High School — decile 6 · EQI 440 · 857 m
• Villa Maria College — decile 9 · EQI 411 · 1.1 km
• Avonhead School - Rakipaoa — decile 7 · EQI 406 · 1.1 km
• Middleton Grange School — decile 9 · EQI 404 · 1.7 km
• Te Parito Kōwhai Russley School — decile 7 · EQI 420 · 2.0 km
• Ilam School — decile 6 · EQI 394 · 2.1 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.

• Sockburn Park — Sports ground · 254 m to its edge
• Gloaming Reserve · 292 m to its edge
• Colman Reserve · 301 m to its edge
• Paparua Stream Reserve No. 2 · 356 m to its edge
• Doncaster Reserve · 373 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Middlepark Rd near Takaro Ave — 67 m · route 130

The reports nearby

239 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Rubbish & dumping and Water & drains, 176 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Damaged Street Sign — Middlepark Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 24 September 2026
• Water Leak — 1/23D Craven Street, Sockburn, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 14 September 2026
• General Request — 19 Craven St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 27 August 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 43 Middlepark Road, Sockburn, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 2 August 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 104 Middlepark Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 29 June 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 96 Middlepark Road, Sockburn, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 5 June 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 10 Takaro Avenue, Sockburn, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 30 April 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — Middlepark Rd near Takaro Ave, Canterbury Region 8042, New Zealand · 21 April 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General — 33A Craven Street, Sockburn, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 15 April 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 10 Takaro Avenue, Sockburn, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 10 April 2026
• Road Signage — 58A Middlepark Road, Sockburn, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 15 March 2026
• Damaged Street Sign — 102 Middlepark Road, Sockburn, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 5 March 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