Little River School
Full Primary · State · Little River
39 students on the roll · EQI 423.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 9. Current Equity Index: 423. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 46 Western Valley Road, Little River, 7591 — the street’s record
- Its suburb: little-river — the suburb’s own record
- Roll: 39 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations may be requested
- Opened 1872
- Isolation index 1.04 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural settlement
- Phone: 03-3251004
- Email: office@littleriver.school.nz
- Contact: Kealy Warren
- Website: littleriver.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.
Other schools near here
- Duvauchelle School — decile 6 · EQI 420 · 11.1 km
- Akaroa Area School — decile 8 · EQI 455 · 14.4 km
Diamond Harbour School — decile 10 · EQI 412 · 15.9 km- Lyttelton Primary School — decile 9 · EQI 424 · 18.9 km
- Te Kura o Ōhinetahi - Governors Bay — decile 10 · EQI 386 · 19.5 km
Ko Taku Reo - Deaf Education New Zealand — EQI 516 · 20.6 km- Okains Bay School — decile 4 · EQI 545 · 20.8 km
- Our Lady Star of the Sea School (Christchurch) — decile 10 · EQI 401 · 21.2 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.
- Awa-Iti Domain · 9 m to its edge
- Western Valley Streamside Esplanade · 123 m to its edge
The reports nearby
45 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Water & drains and Trees & parks, 28 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.
Street Gutters / Storm Water — Canterbury, Little River 7591, New Zealand · 28 August 2026
Street Gutters / Storm Water — Canterbury, Little River 7591, New Zealand · 22 August 2026
Playground Equipment — 4313 Christchurch-Akaroa Rd, Canterbury, Little River 7591, New Zealand · 15 August 2026
Water General — 4297–4313 Christchurch-Akaroa Rd, Canterbury, Little River 7591, New Zealand · 30 July 2026
Water Leak — 46 Western Valley Rd, Canterbury, Little River 7591, New Zealand · 3 June 2026
Water Leak — 48 Western Valley Road, Little River 7591, New Zealand · 27 May 2026
Facility - General Request — 48 Western Valley Road, Little River 7591, New Zealand · 15 April 2026
Fallen Tree — 39 Western Valley Road, Little River 7591, New Zealand · 17 March 2026
Dumped Rubbish — 122 Wairewa Pa Rd, Canterbury, Little River 7591, New Zealand · 13 December 2025
General Request — 4320 Christchurch Akaroa Road, Little River 7591, New Zealand · 13 October 2025
Facility - General Request — Canterbury, Little River 7591, New Zealand · 7 October 2025
Flooding — 4312 Christchurch Akaroa Road, Banks Peninsula, Little River 7591, New Zealand · 1 July 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.
- Inside a recorded flood footprint — 2011-2014 Flooding - Mayoral Flood Taskforce
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.
39 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 423 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 9.
Awa-Iti Domain, Western Valley Streamside Esplanade — green space within 400 m of the school’s point.