Ilam School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 6. Current Equity Index: 394. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 66 Ilam Road, Ilam, Christchurch, 8041 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Ilam — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 411 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1950
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.2 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3487492
• Email: admin@ilam.school.nz
• Contact: Belinda Kennedy
• Website: ilam.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

• Ilam School — in force from 2002-01-29 · 4 km²

It covers: Riccarton — and the fringes of Fendalton, Ilam, Upper Riccarton.

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

Other schools near here

• Kahikatea Kirkwood Intermediate — decile 7 · EQI 430 · 661 m
• Medbury Preparatory School — private — not rated · 911 m
• Villa Maria College — decile 9 · EQI 411 · 1.0 km
• St Teresa's School (Riccarton) — decile 4 · EQI 398 · 1.1 km
• Middleton Grange School — decile 9 · EQI 404 · 1.1 km
• Tūora Fendalton School — decile 10 · EQI 371 · 1.4 km
• Te Kāpehu Riccarton School — decile 3 · EQI 462 · 1.5 km
• Riccarton High School — decile 6 · EQI 440 · 1.5 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.

• Milnebank Reserve · 350 m to its edge
• Siska Reserve · 387 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• University - Ilam Rd — 190 m · routes 3, 100

The reports nearby

71 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Roads & footpaths and Graffiti & vandalism, 61 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Damaged Road — 77 Ilam Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 8 August 2026
• Street Cleaning — 64 Ilam Road, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 28 July 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 66 Ilam Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 1 May 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — University Dr, Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 30 April 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 66 Ilam Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 29 April 2026
• Litter — 66 Ilam Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 1 April 2026
• Damaged Street Sign — 77 Ilam Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 4 March 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water — 77 Ilam Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 18 February 2026
• Roads - General — University - Ilam Rd, Canterbury Region 8041, New Zealand · 27 December 2025
• Dumped Rubbish — 64 Ilam Road, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 15 December 2025
• Sign Poles — 77 Ilam Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 28 November 2025
• Hazard — vehicle — 66 Ilam Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 7 August 2025

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 — Avon River — the managed reach
• The liquefaction model grades it “Liquefaction Damage is Possible” — the 2019 screening study