Akaroa Area School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 8. Current Equity Index: 455. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 141 Rue Jolie, Akaroa, 7520 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: akaroa — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 115 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1881
• Isolation index 1.61 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Setting: Rural settlement
• Phone: 03-3047108
• Email: office@akaroa.school.nz
• Contact: Jonathan Keelty
• Website: akaroa.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

• Duvauchelle School — decile 6 · EQI 420 · 7.3 km
• Okains Bay School — decile 4 · EQI 545 · 13.1 km
• Little River School — decile 9 · EQI 423 · 14.4 km
• Diamond Harbour School — decile 10 · EQI 412 · 27.7 km
• Lyttelton Primary School — decile 9 · EQI 424 · 30.2 km
• Ko Taku Reo - Deaf Education New Zealand — EQI 516 · 30.5 km
• Our Lady Star of the Sea School (Christchurch) — decile 10 · EQI 401 · 30.8 km
• Sumner School — decile 10 · EQI 382 · 31.1 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.

• Britomart Reserve · 191 m to its edge
• Hutchenson Reserve · 201 m to its edge
• Garden Of Tane — Botanic · 237 m to its edge
• Walnut Place Reserve · 255 m to its edge
• Stanley Park · 287 m to its edge
• Akaroa Beach · 351 m to its edge

Facilities nearby

Council facilities within 400 m of the school’s point — libraries, pools and centres a parent can walk to.

• Akaroa Library — Library · 147 m

The reports nearby

292 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Roads & footpaths and Water & drains, 243 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Water Leak — 17 Aubrey Street South, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 29 August 2026
• Water Leak — 82 Beach Rd, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 24 August 2026
• Water Leak — 82 Beach Rd, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 14 August 2026
• Sewer - Leak / Blockage — 85K Beach Road, Banks Peninsula, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 13 August 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 69 Beach Rd, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 3 August 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water — 15 Walnut Place, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 25 July 2026
• Damaged Road — 16B Selwyn Ave, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 12 July 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 19 Aubrey St South, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 11 July 2026
• Damaged Road — 8 Selwyn Ave, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 11 July 2026
• Damaged Road — 13 Selwyn Ave, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 11 July 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 51–75 Beach Rd, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 3 July 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 75 Beach Rd, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520, New Zealand · 4 June 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 recorded flood footprint — 2008 Akaroa Basin Harbour Settlements Study
• Under the hill country’s watch band — the plan’s broad instability overlay