Kaiapoi Borough School
Full Primary · State · Kaiapoi
377 students on the roll · EQI 490 · an enrolment scheme in place.
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Its rating
Final decile (2022): 5. Current Equity Index: 490. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 20 Hilton Street, Kaiapoi, 7630
- Roll: 377 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1873
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.4, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Medium urban area
- Phone: 03-3277231
- Email: office@kbs.school.nz
- Contact: Hayden van Lent
- Website: kbs.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
- Kaiapoi Borough School, in force from 2022-10-17 · 7 km²
Indicative only, the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.
Other schools near here
St Patrick's School (Kaiapoi), decile 7 · EQI 440 · 627 m
Kaiapoi High School, decile 7 · EQI 465 · 1.0 km- Kaiapoi North School, decile 7 · EQI 461 · 1.0 km
- Karanga Mai Young Parents College, decile 1 · EQI 569 · 1.1 km
Clarkville Te Kura ki Waimātao, decile 10 · EQI 429 · 3.8 km- Ōhoka School, decile 10 · EQI 406 · 5.0 km
- Te Kura o Tuahiwi, decile 6 · EQI 498 · 5.0 km
- Woodend School, decile 8 · EQI 453 · 6.2 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.
- Murphy Park, Sports ground · 116 m to its edge
- Kaiapoi Riverbank South-west Side · 211 m to its edge
- Kaiapoi Riverbank North Side · 235 m to its edge
- Former Kaiapoi Bowling Club, Sports ground · 267 m to its edge
- Kaiapoi Croquet Club, Sports ground · 267 m to its edge
- Wylie Park, Sports ground · 271 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.
- Commemorative Brass Plaque On Stone Column, Monument · 244 m
- Commemorative Plaque, Monument · 259 m
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
Full Primary · State · Co-Educational.
377 on the roll at September 2026, the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 490, its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 5.
1 zone polygon on record. The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.