Te Parito Kōwhai Russley School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 7. Current Equity Index: 420. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 75 Cutts Road, Avonhead, Christchurch, 8042 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Avonhead — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 440 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1963
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.27 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Cohort entry: Yes
• Phone: 03-3427783
• Email: reception@russley.school.nz
• Contact: Gregory Lewis
• Website: russley.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

• Russley School — in force from 2019-01-01 · 3 km²

It covers: Russley — and the fringes of Avonhead, Broomfield.

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

Other schools near here

• Avonhead School - Rakipaoa — decile 7 · EQI 406 · 1.4 km
• Merrin School Ngā Whetū Kohara — decile 8 · EQI 398 · 1.4 km
• St Thomas of Canterbury College — decile 8 · EQI 430 · 2.0 km
• Villa Maria College — decile 9 · EQI 411 · 2.2 km
• Westburn Te Kura O Hereora — decile 9 · EQI 383 · 2.2 km
• Te Kāpehu Riccarton School — decile 3 · EQI 462 · 2.3 km
• St Bernadette's School (Hornby) — decile 4 · EQI 423 · 2.3 km
• Our Lady of Victories — decile 6 · EQI 376 · 2.3 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.

• Stewarts Bush · 151 m to its edge
• Pinehurst Reserve · 223 m to its edge
• Crosbie Park — Sports ground · 240 m to its edge
• Calbreath Reserve · 382 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Hyde Park — 217 m · route 130

The reports nearby

64 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Trees & parks and Water & drains, 54 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Water Leak — 43 Yardley Street, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 1 October 2026
• Trees - General — Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 28 September 2026
• Trees - General — Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 28 September 2026
• Park - General Request — 26 Yardley St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 13 September 2026
• Pavement - General — 37 Glenharrow Avenue, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 14 July 2026
• Water Leak — 39 Woodbury St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 4 July 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water — 11A Yardley St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 26 May 2026
• Park - General Request — 39 Glenharrow Avenue, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 7 April 2026
• Water Leak — 39 Yardley St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 7 February 2026
• Facility - General Request — 26 Yardley St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 27 January 2026
• Water Leak — 19 Yardley St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 12 January 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 24 November 2025

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 “Low Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study