Riccarton High School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 6. Current Equity Index: 440. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 31 Vicki Street, Sockburn, Christchurch, 8042 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Sockburn — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 1,111 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1958
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.19 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3485073
• Email: info@riccarton.school.nz
• Contact: Anthea Knowles (Acting)
• Website: riccarton.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

• Riccarton High School — in force from 2020-01-01 · 17 km²

It covers: Avonhead, Middleton, Riccarton, Russley, Sockburn, Upper Riccarton — and the fringes of Addington, Broomfield, Fendalton, Ilam.

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

Other schools near here

• Te Kāpehu Riccarton School — decile 3 · EQI 462 · 334 m
• Our Lady of Victories — decile 6 · EQI 376 · 585 m
• Middleton Grange School — decile 9 · EQI 404 · 820 m
• Villa Maria College — decile 9 · EQI 411 · 849 m
• St Thomas of Canterbury College — decile 8 · EQI 430 · 857 m
• Avonhead School - Rakipaoa — decile 7 · EQI 406 · 1.4 km
• Ilam School — decile 6 · EQI 394 · 1.5 km
• Kahikatea Kirkwood Intermediate — decile 7 · EQI 430 · 1.7 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.

• Vicki Reserve · 29 m to its edge
• Glebe Reserve — Botanic · 326 m to its edge
• Hillary Reserve · 361 m to its edge

Facilities nearby

Council facilities within 400 m of the school’s point — libraries, pools and centres a parent can walk to.

• Upper Riccarton Library — Library · 282 m

The bus stop

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

• Main South Rd near Bowman Pl — 284 m · routes 5, 100, 130

The reports nearby

360 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Rubbish & dumping and Roads & footpaths, 306 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Dumped Rubbish — 20C Vicki Street, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 30 September 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation — 46 Curletts Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 18 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 8B Vicki Street, Sockburn, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 16 September 2026
• Damaged Street Sign — 74–98 Vicki St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 22 August 2026
• Accessibility — 33 Curletts Road, Sockburn, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 18 July 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 15 Tensing Place, Sockburn, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 29 June 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 2B Vicki Street, Sockburn, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 17 June 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 4A Vicki St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 2 June 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 8C Vicki St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 2 June 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 56 Curletts Road, Sockburn, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 21 May 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 21 Vicki Street, Sockburn, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 20 May 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 49 Curletts Road, Sockburn, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 9 May 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