Te Kura o Te Mātāpuna Isleworth School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 5. Current Equity Index: 466. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 59A Farrington Avenue, Bishopdale, Christchurch, 8053 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Bishopdale — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 247 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1962
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.23 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3598553
• Email: admin@isleworth.school.nz
• Contact: Michael Davidson (Acting)
• Website: isleworth.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

• Isleworth School — in force from 2019-01-01 · 2 km²

It covers: Bishopdale.

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

Other schools near here

• Breens Intermediate — decile 7 · EQI 443 · 737 m
• Wairakei School (Christchurch) — decile 6 · EQI 478 · 929 m
• Cotswold Mātāhae School — decile 8 · EQI 419 · 1.3 km
• Bishopdale School Te Kura o Papakōhatu — decile 3 · EQI 521 · 1.3 km
• Te Ara Maurea Roydvale School — decile 10 · EQI 395 · 1.5 km
• Burnside High School — decile 8 · EQI 416 · 1.6 km
• Emmanuel Christian School — decile 8 · EQI 409 · 1.7 km
• Christchurch North College — EQI 446 · 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.

• Grant Armstrong Park — Sports ground · 147 m to its edge
• Halifax Reserve · 341 m to its edge
• Bishopdale Park — Sports ground · 366 m to its edge
• Twyford Reserve · 369 m to its edge
• Farrington Reserve · 396 m to its edge

The reports nearby

156 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Roads & footpaths and Trees & parks, 129 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Dumped Rubbish — 5 Kingston Place, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 26 September 2026
• Water General — 68 Farrington Avenue, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 7 August 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water — 18 Isleworth Road, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 27 July 2026
• Abandoned Vehicle — 49 Farrington Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 22 July 2026
• Roads - General — 1 Isleworth Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 13 July 2026
• Water Leak — 70 Farrington Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 12 July 2026
• Flooding — 18 Isleworth Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 12 July 2026
• Flooding — 1 Isleworth Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 12 July 2026
• Park - General Request — Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 28 June 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General — 41 Hornsby St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 29 May 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 1A Isleworth Road, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 29 May 2026
• Abandoned Vehicle — 1A Isleworth Road, Bishopdale, Christchurch 8053, New Zealand · 29 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 “Liquefaction Damage is Possible” — the 2019 screening study