Te Kura o Ōhinetahi - Governors Bay

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 10. Current Equity Index: 386. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 1 Jetty Road, Governors Bay, 8971 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: governors-bay — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 93 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations may be requested
• Opened 1868
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.41 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Setting: Rural settlement
• Phone: 03-3299854
• Email: office@governorsbay.school.nz
• Contact: Christine Murphy
• Website: governorsbay.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

• Governors Bay School — in force from 2022-05-02 · 30 km²

It covers: Governors Bay — and the fringes of Kennedys Bush, Tai Tapu.

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

Other schools near here

• Cashmere Primary Te Pae Kererū — decile 10 · EQI 368 · 5.5 km
• Diamond Harbour School — decile 10 · EQI 412 · 6.2 km
• Lyttelton Primary School — decile 9 · EQI 424 · 6.4 km
• Te Kura o Huriawa Thorrington — decile 10 · EQI 377 · 6.5 km
• St Martins School — decile 9 · EQI 402 · 6.5 km
• Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto — decile 8 · EQI 412 · 6.8 km
• Heathcote Valley School — decile 9 · EQI 424 · 6.8 km
• Cashmere High School — decile 9 · EQI 413 · 6.9 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.

• Governors Bay Scenic Reserve · 44 m to its edge
• Governors Bay Community Centre And Pool · 63 m to its edge
• Governors Bay Jetty · 204 m to its edge
• Cholmondeley Reserve · 381 m to its edge
• Stream Reserve · 400 m to its edge

The reports nearby

184 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Roads & footpaths and Trees & parks, 137 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Public Toilet — 1 Cresswell Avenue, Governors Bay 8971, New Zealand · 28 September 2026
• Public Toilet — 1 Cresswell Avenue, Banks Peninsula, Governors Bay 8971, New Zealand · 28 September 2026
• Public Toilet — 75 Main Rd, Canterbury, Governors Bay 8971, New Zealand · 26 September 2026
• Playground Equipment — 1 Cresswell Avenue, Banks Peninsula, Governors Bay 8971, New Zealand · 14 September 2026
• Public Toilet — 75 Main Rd, Canterbury, Governors Bay 8971, New Zealand · 7 September 2026
• Public Toilet — 75 Main Rd, Canterbury, Governors Bay 8971, New Zealand · 29 August 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 11 Cholmondeley Lane, Governors Bay 8971, New Zealand · 26 August 2026
• Fallen Tree — Foreshore Track, Canterbury, Governors Bay 8971, New Zealand · 9 August 2026
• Graffiti on a playground or in a park — 75 Main Road, Governors Bay 8971, New Zealand · 5 August 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation — 3 Cresswell Avenue, Banks Peninsula, Governors Bay 8971, New Zealand · 21 July 2026
• Accessibility — 1 Lighthouse Ln, Canterbury, Governors Bay 8971, New Zealand · 5 July 2026
• Trees - General — Foreshore Track, Canterbury, Governors Bay 8971, New Zealand · 27 June 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.

• Under the hill country’s watch band — the plan’s broad instability overlay
• The rockfall survey counts 9 boulders within 500 m — 0 came down