Te Kōmanawa Rowley School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 1. Current Equity Index: 535. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 48 Rowley Avenue, Hoon Hay, Christchurch, 8025 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Hoon Hay — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 227 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1973
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.22 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Instruction: Some students taught in a Pacific language
• Phone: 03-3382472
• Email: admin@rowley.school.nz
• Contact: Niki Penny (Acting)
• Website: rowley.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

• Te Komanawa Rowley School — in force from 2026-01-01 · 2 km²

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 Kura Tuarua o Horomaka Hillmorton High School — decile 4 · EQI 467 · 649 m
• Te Kura o Mōkihi Spreydon School — decile 3 · EQI 453 · 970 m
• Southern Health School — decile 1 · EQI 569 · 1.1 km
• Aidanfield Christian School — decile 8 · EQI 377 · 1.4 km
• Te Whānau o Ōtūmatua — decile 2 · EQI 540 · 1.5 km
• Hoon Hay Te Kura Kōaka — decile 8 · EQI 416 · 1.5 km
• Our Lady of the Assumption School (Chch) — decile 10 · EQI 401 · 1.6 km
• Te Mātaitihi (Proposed opening date: 2027-01-01) — not rated · 1.9 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.

• Hoon Hay Park — Sports ground · 295 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Mccarthy St near Rowley Ave — 149 m · route 60

The reports nearby

563 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 439 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge — 68 Rowley Avenue, Hoon Hay, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 5 October 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 79 Rowley Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 1 October 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 2 McCarthy St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 15 September 2026
• Pavement - General — 66 Rowley Avenue, Hoon Hay, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 11 September 2026
• Water Leak — 31 Barrowclough St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 9 September 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 12 Oleary Street, Hoon Hay, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 8 September 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 7 McCarthy St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 29 August 2026
• Water Leak — 4 Herdman St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 28 August 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 10 McCarthy St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 25 August 2026
• Water Leak — 9 Herdman St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 24 August 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 68 Rowley Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 24 August 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 12 Oleary Street, Hoon Hay, Christchurch 8025, New Zealand · 22 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.

• The February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over this point — mapped ground failure — a footprint, not a finding
• The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study