Ōuruhia Model School
Full Primary · State · Ouruhia, Christchurch
20 students on the roll in Ouruhia · EQI 445 · an enrolment scheme in place.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 8. 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
- 21 Turners Road, Ouruhia, Christchurch, 8083 — the street’s record
- Its suburb: Ouruhia — the suburb’s own record
- Roll: 20 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1914
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.29 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Setting: Rural other
- Phone: 03-3238855
- Email: office@ouruhia.school.nz
- Contact: Katrina (Trina) Shepherd
- Website: ouruhia.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
- Ouruhia Model School — in force from 2021-01-01 · 23 km²
It covers: Bottle Lake, Ouruhia, Spencerville — and the fringes of Belfast, Brooklands.
Indicative only — the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.
Other schools near here
- Pūtahi Belfast School — decile 7 · EQI 458 · 2.9 km
- Pītau-Allenvale School — decile 6 · EQI 466 · 2.9 km
- Te Rito Harakeke - Marshland School — decile 9 · EQI 404 · 3.1 km
- Queenspark Te Hua Mānuka — decile 8 · EQI 453 · 4.3 km
- Redwood School (Christchurch) — decile 8 · EQI 443 · 4.5 km
Clarkville Te Kura ki Waimātao — decile 10 · EQI 429 · 5.2 km
Waitākiri Primary School — decile 8 · EQI 452 · 5.3 km- Te Kura o Matarangi - Northcote School — decile 3 · EQI 533 · 5.4 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.
- Styx Loop Conservation Park — Regional · 387 m to its edge
The register nearby
Heritage-register places within 300 m of the school’s point — what stood on the ground around it, or still does.
The reports nearby
11 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Roads & footpaths, 11 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.
Pavement - Damaged — 24 Turners Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 26 January 2026
Pothole — 18 Turners Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 27 September 2025
Pothole — 20 Turners Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 27 September 2025
Pothole — 24 Turners Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 27 September 2025
Pavement - Damaged — 21 Turners Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 22 September 2025
Pavement - General — 21 Turners Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 13 September 2025
Pavement - Damaged — 15E Turners Road, Ouruhia, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 5 February 2025
Pavement - General — 15E Turners Road, Ouruhia, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 15 January 2025
Accessibility — 20 Turners Road, Ouruhia, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 22 May 2024
Roading/Streets — 21 Turners Road, Ouruhia, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 20 May 2022Roading/Streets — 27 Turners Rd, Styx, Christchurch 8083, New Zealand · 18 February 2019
Under the ground
The plans and surveys the site keeps, asked once of the school’s ground — footprints and plan maps, not engineering findings.
- The liquefaction model grades it “Liquefaction Damage is Possible” — 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 — in Ouruhia.
20 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 445 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 8.
1 zone polygon on record — it covers Bottle Lake, Ouruhia, Spencerville (+ fringes). The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.