Duvauchelle School
Contributing · State · Duvauchelle
28 students on the roll · EQI 420 · an enrolment scheme in place.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 6. Current Equity Index: 420. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- School Lane, Duvauchelle, 7545 — the street’s record
- Its suburb: duvauchelle — the suburb’s own record
- Roll: 28 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1871
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 1.38 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural settlement
- Phone: 03-3045722
- Email: office@duvauchelle.school.nz
- Contact: Deb Richardson
- Website: hail.to/duvauchelle-primary-school
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
- Duvauchelle School — in force from 2019-04-29 · 263 km²
It covers: Duvauchelle, Little River, Okains Bay, Pigeon Bay, Wainui — and the fringes of Le Bons Bay.
Indicative only — the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.
Other schools near here
- Akaroa Area School — decile 8 · EQI 455 · 7.3 km
- Okains Bay School — decile 4 · EQI 545 · 10.0 km
- Little River School — decile 9 · EQI 423 · 11.1 km
Diamond Harbour School — decile 10 · EQI 412 · 21.2 km
Ko Taku Reo - Deaf Education New Zealand — EQI 516 · 23.4 km- Lyttelton Primary School — decile 9 · EQI 424 · 23.5 km
- Our Lady Star of the Sea School (Christchurch) — decile 10 · EQI 401 · 23.7 km
Sumner School — decile 10 · EQI 382 · 24.0 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.
- Duvauchelle Showgrounds · 20 m to its edge
The reports nearby
28 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Trees & parks and Water & drains, 21 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.
Rubbish and Bins - General — 6065 Christchurch Akaroa Road, Duvauchelle 7581, New Zealand · 19 February 2026
Water Pollution - Sediment — 21A Pawsons Valley Road, Duvauchelle 7581, New Zealand · 21 January 2026
Damaged Street Sign — 6093–6143 Christchurch-Akaroa Rd, Canterbury, Duvauchelle 7581, New Zealand · 24 December 2025
Poles and Signage - General — 6047 Christchurch Akaroa Road, Duvauchelle 7581, New Zealand · 15 November 2025
General Request — 4 Duvauchelle School Ln, Canterbury, Duvauchelle 7581, New Zealand · 21 September 2025
Public Toilet — 6047 Christchurch-Akaroa Rd, Canterbury, Duvauchelle 7581, New Zealand · 5 April 2025
General Request — 4 Duvauchelle School Lane, Duvauchelle 7581, New Zealand · 7 February 2025
Accessibility — 6063 Christchurch Akaroa Road, Duvauchelle 7581, New Zealand · 14 July 2024
Water Leak — 6075 Christchurch Akaroa Road, Banks Peninsula, Duvauchelle 7581, New Zealand · 11 June 2024
Water Leak — 9 Duvauchelle School Lane, Duvauchelle 7581, New Zealand · 2 June 2024
Overgrown Vegetation — 6065 Christchurch Akaroa Road, Banks Peninsula, Duvauchelle 7581, New Zealand · 3 February 2024- Roads - General — 6075 Christchurch Akaroa Road, Duvauchelle 7581, New Zealand · 30 September 2023
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 R14/78 2014
- Inside a recorded flood footprint — 2008 Akaroa Basin Harbour Settlements Study
- Under the hill country’s watch band — the plan’s broad instability overlay
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
Contributing · State · Co-Educational.
28 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 420 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 6.
1 zone polygon on record — it covers Duvauchelle, Little River, Okains Bay and 2 more suburbs (+ fringes). The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.