Mairehau Primary School
Full Primary · State · Christchurch
386 students on the roll · EQI 466 · an enrolment scheme in place.
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Its rating
Final decile (2022): 6. 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
- 43 Mahars Road, Christchurch, 8640
- Roll: 386 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1953
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.13 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Phone: 03-3853796
- Email: office@mairehau.net
- Contact: Pauline Jansen
- Website: mps.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
- Mairehau School — in force from 2018-01-17 · 4 km²
It covers: Mairehau, Saint Albans, Shirley.
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 Francis of Assisi Catholic School — decile 8 · EQI 408 · 203 m
- Mairehau High School — decile 4 · EQI 510 · 773 m
St Albans School — decile 8 · EQI 414 · 1.3 km
St Albans Catholic School (Christchurch) — decile 9 · EQI 394 · 1.4 km- Te Hiwa Shirley Primary School — decile 3 · EQI 494 · 1.4 km
Paparoa Street School — decile 10 · EQI 398 · 1.8 km- Te Oraka — decile 4 · EQI 505 · 1.9 km
Papanui Primary School — decile 6 · EQI 452 · 2.1 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.
- Mahars Playground · 326 m to its edge
- Edgeware Tennis Club · 328 m to its edge
- Wanaka Reserve · 376 m to its edge
- Dudley Creek Waterway · 386 m to its edge
The bus stop
The nearest stop the Metro map carries — measured to the school’s pin, not its gate.
- Innes Rd near Mahars Rd — 65 m · routes 44, Oc
Under the ground
The plans and surveys the site keeps, asked once of the school’s ground — footprints and plan maps, not engineering findings.
- Graded TC2 ground — Green Zone, Technical Category 2, Yellow
- On the plan’s flood map — Dudley Creek — the managed reach
- The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study
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.
386 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 466 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 6.
1 zone polygon on record — it covers Mairehau, Saint Albans, Shirley. The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.