Middleton Grange School
Composite · State : Integrated · Riccarton, Christchurch
1,395 students on the roll in Riccarton · EQI 404 · an enrolment scheme in place.
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Its rating
Final decile (2022): 9. Current Equity Index: 404. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 30 Acacia Avenue, Riccarton, Christchurch, 8041 — the street’s record
- Its suburb: Riccarton — the suburb’s own record
- Roll: 1,395 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations may be requested
- Opened 1964
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.17 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Phone: 03-3489826
- Email: office@middleton.school.nz
- Contact: Gregg Le Roux
- Website: middleton.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
- Middleton Grange School (Year 9-10) — in force from 2026-01-01 · 5227 km²
- Middleton Grange School (Year 11-13) — in force from 2026-01-01 · 6956 km²
- Middleton Grange School (Year 1-8) — in force from 2026-01-01 · 3632 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
Riccarton High School — decile 6 · EQI 440 · 820 m- Kahikatea Kirkwood Intermediate — decile 7 · EQI 430 · 958 m
- Te Kāpehu Riccarton School — decile 3 · EQI 462 · 1.0 km
Ilam School — decile 6 · EQI 394 · 1.1 km
Villa Maria College — decile 9 · EQI 411 · 1.1 km
Our Lady of Victories — decile 6 · EQI 376 · 1.4 km- St Teresa's School (Riccarton) — decile 4 · EQI 398 · 1.5 km
- Wharenui School — decile 3 · EQI 457 · 1.6 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.
- Hansons Reserve · 295 m to its edge
- Middleton Park — Sports ground · 355 m to its edge
- Auburn Reserve · 375 m to its edge
- Hillary Reserve · 383 m to its edge
The bus stop
The nearest stop the Metro map carries — measured to the school’s pin, not its gate.
- Hansons Ln near Arthur St — 273 m · route 140
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, Strone — 75 Hansons Lane
- Former Dwelling and Setting, Middleton
- Former Dwelling and Setting, Stevenholme/ Rannerdale House — 71 Suva Street
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 “Liquefaction Damage is Possible” — 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
Composite · State : Integrated · Co-Educational — in Riccarton.
1,395 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 404 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 9.
3 zone polygons on record — it covers most of Christchurch. The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.