New Brighton Catholic School (Chch)

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 6. Current Equity Index: 445. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 100 Lonsdale Street, New Brighton, Christchurch, 8083 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: New Brighton — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 196 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1935
• Isolation index 0.25 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3887982
• Email: office@nbc.school.nz
• Contact: Deborah Daines
• Website: newbrightoncatholic.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

• Nova Montessori School — private — not rated · 534 m
• Rāwhiti School — decile 3 · EQI 478 · 1.2 km
• St James School (Aranui) — decile 1 · EQI 501 · 1.7 km
• Shirley Boys' High School - Ngā Tama o Ōruapaeroa — decile 6 · EQI 464 · 1.8 km
• Avonside Girls' High School — decile 6 · EQI 472 · 1.9 km
• South New Brighton School — decile 6 · EQI 454 · 2.4 km
• Haeata Community Campus — decile 1 · EQI 545 · 2.4 km
• Chisnallwood Intermediate — decile 5 · EQI 482 · 2.8 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.

• Rawhiti Domain — Sports ground · 42 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Hawke St near Convoy St — 189 m · route 60

The register nearby

Heritage-register places within 300 m of the school’s point — what stood on the ground around it, or still does.

• St Faith's Church and Setting — 50 Hawke Street

The reports nearby

751 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 611 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge — 132 Hawke St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 30 September 2026
• Park - General Request — Canterbury, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 22 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — Canterbury, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 22 September 2026
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet — 380 Keyes Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 22 September 2026
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet — 380 Keyes Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 22 September 2026
• Facility - General Request — 345 Keyes Road, New Brighton, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 18 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 132 Hawke St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 13 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — Canterbury, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 11 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — Canterbury, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 11 September 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 69 Hawke Street, New Brighton, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 10 September 2026
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet — 380 Keyes Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 2 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 100 Shaw Avenue, New Brighton, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 3 August 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.

• Inside a modelled tsunami reach — ECAN Report R12/38 2012 · ECAN Report R14/78 2014
• On the plan’s flood map — Avon River — the managed reach
• The liquefaction model grades it “Liquefaction Damage is Possible” — the 2019 screening study