Te Hiwa Shirley Primary School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 3. Current Equity Index: 494. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 11 Shirley Road, Shirley, Christchurch, 8013 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Shirley — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 379 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1916
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.12 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Cohort entry: Yes
• Phone: 03-3852019
• Email: info@shirleyprimary.school.nz
• Contact: Alistair Sim
• Website: shirleyprimary.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

• Shirley School — in force from 2018-05-17 · 2 km²

It covers: Edgeware, Mairehau, Richmond, Shirley.

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 Oraka — decile 4 · EQI 505 · 686 m
• Pareawa Banks Avenue School — decile 4 · EQI 466 · 786 m
• Mairehau Primary School — decile 6 · EQI 466 · 1.4 km
• St Francis of Assisi Catholic School — decile 8 · EQI 408 · 1.4 km
• St Albans School — decile 8 · EQI 414 · 1.5 km
• Kingslea School — decile 1 · EQI 569 · 1.5 km
• Mairehau High School — decile 4 · EQI 510 · 1.6 km
• St Albans Catholic School (Christchurch) — decile 9 · EQI 394 · 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.

• Shirley Community Reserve · 32 m to its edge
• Dudley Creek Esplanade Reserve · 86 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Shirley Rd near Slater St — passes the gate · routes 7, 100, Oc

The register nearby

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

• Dwelling and Setting — 72 Chancellor Street
• Dwelling and Setting — 70 Chancellor Street
• Dwelling and Setting — 66 Chancellor Street

The reports nearby

77 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Graffiti & vandalism and Water & drains, 57 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Fallen Tree — 15 Emmett St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand · 28 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 20 Emmett St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand · 4 June 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 25 Shirley Road, Shirley, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand · 3 April 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 25 Shirley Road, Shirley, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand · 16 March 2026
• Trees - General — 17 Emmett St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand · 22 February 2026
• Trees - General — 18 Emmett St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand · 17 February 2026
• Water Leak — 2 Emmett Street, Shirley, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand · 10 February 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 11 Emmett Street, Shirley, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand · 19 December 2025
• Water Leak — 19 Emmett St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand · 28 October 2025
• Water Leak — 9 Allison Pl, Canterbury, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand · 23 July 2025
• Dumped Rubbish — 15 Emmett St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand · 16 July 2025
• Abandoned Vehicle — 26 Emmett St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand · 10 June 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 February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over this point — mapped ground failure — a footprint, not a finding
• On the plan’s flood map — Dudley Creek — the managed reach
• The liquefaction model grades it “High Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study