Christchurch East School
Full Primary · State · Christchurch Central, Christchurch
301 students on the roll in Christchurch Central · EQI 454 · an enrolment scheme in place.
Term Dates 2026 Wednesday 28 January - Friday 2 April Monday 20 April - Friday 3 July Monday 20 July - Friday 25 September Monday 12 October - Friday 8 December — chcheast.school.nz
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 3. Current Equity Index: 454. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 311 Gloucester Street, Christchurch Central, Christchurch, 8011 — the street’s record
- Its suburb: Christchurch Central — the suburb’s own record
- Roll: 301 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1873
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.04 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Phone: 03-3662440
- Email: admin@chcheast.school.nz
- Contact: Michael Agar
- Website: chcheast.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
- Christchurch East School — in force from 2024-07-22 · 4 km²
It covers: Christchurch Central, Linwood, Phillipstown, Richmond, Waltham.
Indicative only — the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.
Other schools near here
Catholic Cathedral College — decile 4 · EQI 448 · 902 m- St Mary's School (Christchurch) — decile 4 · EQI 397 · 1.0 km
- Kingslea School — decile 1 · EQI 569 · 1.0 km
Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery — decile 7 · EQI 442 · 1.2 km- St Michael's Church School — private — not rated · 1.4 km
- The Cathedral Grammar School — private — not rated · 1.6 km
- Christ's College — private — not rated · 1.7 km
- Te Aratai College — decile 3 · EQI 507 · 1.8 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.
- Chester Street East Reserve · 169 m to its edge
- Worcester Pump Station Park · 359 m to its edge
- William Brittan · 370 m to its edge
- Avon Riverbank Central City · 388 m to its edge
The bus stop
The nearest stop the Metro map carries — measured to the school’s pin, not its gate.
- Gloucester St near Fitzgerald Ave — passes the gate · routes 5, 7
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 — 229 Worcester Street
- Dwelling and Setting — 196 Fitzgerald Avenue
- Former Boiler House and Setting — 175 Chester Street East
- Dwelling/Commercial Building and Setting — 147 Fitzgerald Avenue
The reports nearby
2,951 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 2,517 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa — 182 Fitzgerald Avenue, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand · 6 October 2026
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa — 192A Fitzgerald Avenue, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand · 6 October 2026
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa — 202 Fitzgerald Avenue, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand · 6 October 2026
Dumped Rubbish — 162 Chester Street East, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand · 6 October 2026
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa — 332 Gloucester Street, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand · 5 October 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 324 Barbadoes Street, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand · 2 October 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 270 Worcester Street, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand · 1 October 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 228 Worcester Street, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand · 1 October 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 219 Fitzgerald Avenue, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand · 30 September 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 215 Fitzgerald Avenue, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand · 30 September 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 207 Fitzgerald Avenue, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand · 30 September 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 213 Fitzgerald Avenue, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand · 29 September 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.
- On the plan’s flood map — Bells Creek — 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 Christchurch Central.
301 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 454 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 3.
1 zone polygon on record — it covers Christchurch Central, Linwood, Phillipstown and 2 more suburbs. The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.