Cotswold Mātāhae School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 8. Current Equity Index: 419. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• Cotswold Avenue, Bishopdale, Christchurch, 8053 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Bishopdale — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 568 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations may be requested
• Opened 1968
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.23 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3598035
• Email: office@cotswold.school.nz
• Contact: Chris Smith
• Website: cotswold.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

• Cotswold Matahae School — in force from 2025-01-01 · 6 km²

It covers: Bishopdale, Casebrook, Harewood, Northwood.

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

Other schools near here

• Emmanuel Christian School — decile 8 · EQI 409 · 431 m
• Bishopdale School Te Kura o Papakōhatu — decile 3 · EQI 521 · 868 m
• Breens Intermediate — decile 7 · EQI 443 · 977 m
• Te Kura o Te Mātāpuna Isleworth School — decile 5 · EQI 466 · 1.3 km
• Casebrook Intermediate — decile 6 · EQI 466 · 1.3 km
• Papanui High School — decile 7 · EQI 461 · 1.8 km
• Wairakei School (Christchurch) — decile 6 · EQI 478 · 2.0 km
• Marian College — decile 8 · EQI 426 · 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.

• Stretton Reserve · 52 m to its edge
• Tulett Park — Sports ground · 385 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Sawyers Arms Rd near Cotswold Ave — 322 m · routes 27, 107

The reports nearby

240 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Roads & footpaths and Trees & parks, 180 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Pavement - Damaged — 16 Fairford Street, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 2 October 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 49 Cotswold Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 3 September 2026
• Pothole — 9 Westerleigh St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 21 August 2026
• Water Leak — 37 Cotswold Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 15 August 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation — 20 Chedworth Avenue, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 22 April 2026
• Graffiti on a playground or in a park — 38 Wychwood Crescent, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 7 April 2026
• Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art — 63 Cotswold Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 2 April 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water — 15 Stretton St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 26 March 2026
• Fallen Tree — 29 Cotswold Avenue, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 20 March 2026
• Road Blockage — 9B Wychwood Cres, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 13 March 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 56–60 Martbern Cres, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 20 February 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 10A Stretton Street, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 19 February 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 — Lower Styx River — the managed reach
• The liquefaction model grades it “High Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study