Mt Pleasant School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 10. Current Equity Index: 393. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 82 Major Hornbrook Road, Mt Pleasant, Christchurch, 8081 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Mt Pleasant — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 398 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations may be requested
• Opened 1928
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.24 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Cohort entry: Yes
• Phone: 03-3843994
• Email: office@mtpleasant.school.nz
• Contact: Donna Ellery
• Website: mtpleasant.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

• Mt Pleasant School — in force from 2026-01-01 · 4 km²

It covers: Ferrymead, Heathcote Valley, Mount Pleasant.

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

Other schools near here

• Te Raekura Redcliffs School — decile 10 · EQI 400 · 1.6 km
• Heathcote Valley School — decile 9 · EQI 424 · 2.0 km
• Ngutuawa School — decile 3 · EQI 526 · 2.5 km
• St Anne's School (Woolston) — decile 3 · EQI 447 · 2.8 km
• Tamariki School — decile 4 · EQI 464 · 2.8 km
• Mastery Schools New Zealand - Arapaki — EQI 434 · 3.2 km
• Te Ahuwai Bromley School — decile 3 · EQI 513 · 3.7 km
• Sumner School — decile 10 · EQI 382 · 3.7 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.

• Hilltop Reserve — Regional · 135 m to its edge
• Cresswell Reserve · 258 m to its edge
• Soleares Playground · 328 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Major Hornbrook Rd near Billys Trk — 69 m · route 140

The reports nearby

265 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Water & drains and Roads & footpaths, 194 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Hazard — vehicle — 107A Major Hornbrook Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 5 October 2026
• Road Signage — 114 Major Hornbrook Road, Mount Pleasant, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 2 September 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General — 106 Mount Pleasant Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 31 August 2026
• Trees - General — 7 Freeman St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 25 August 2026
• Road Signage — 57 Major Hornbrook Road, Mount Pleasant, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 17 August 2026
• Abandoned Vehicle — 7 Freeman St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 9 August 2026
• Poles and Signage - General — 87 Major Hornbrook Road, Mount Pleasant, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 6 July 2026
• Road Signage — Major Hornbrook Rd near Billys Trk, Mount Pleasant, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 6 July 2026
• Damaged Road — 132 Billys Track, Mount Pleasant, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 13 June 2026
• Fallen Tree — 289 Cannon Hill Cres, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 10 June 2026
• Street Cleaning — 83 Major Hornbrook Road, Mount Pleasant, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 10 June 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 107A Major Hornbrook Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 16 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.

• Under the hill country’s watch band — the plan’s broad instability overlay
• The liquefaction model grades it “Liquefaction Damage is Unlikely” — the 2019 screening study
• The rockfall survey counts 11 boulders within 500 m — 6 came down