Wigram Primary School - Te Piki Kāhu

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 392. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 5 The Runway, Wigram, Christchurch, 8042 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Wigram — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 492 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1957
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.26 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3497325
• Email: principal@wigramprimary.school.nz
• Contact: Heather Walkinshaw
• Website: wigramprimary.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

• Wigram Primary School - Te Piki Kahu — in force from 2021-05-03 · 6 km²

It covers: Wigram — and the fringes of Hornby, Middleton.

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 Whānau o Ōtūmatua — decile 2 · EQI 540 · 1.7 km
• Aidanfield Christian School — decile 8 · EQI 377 · 1.9 km
• Te Manu Tukutuku South Hornby School — decile 4 · EQI 464 · 2.0 km
• Our Lady of Victories — decile 6 · EQI 376 · 2.1 km
• Knights Stream School- Mingimingi Hautoa — EQI 385 · 2.2 km
• Oaklands Te Kura o Ōwaka — decile 9 · EQI 410 · 2.2 km
• St Thomas of Canterbury College — decile 8 · EQI 430 · 2.3 km
• Riccarton High School — decile 6 · EQI 440 · 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.

• Te Kahu Park — Sports ground · 52 m to its edge
• Raukura Park · 196 m to its edge
• George West Reserve · 276 m to its edge
• Bennington 3 Drainage Reserve · 332 m to its edge
• Bennington 2 Drainage Reserve · 348 m to its edge
• Kingsford Smith Reserve — Botanic · 360 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• The Runway near Kittyhawk Ave — 119 m · route 100

The reports nearby

260 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Trees & parks and Roads & footpaths, 192 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Rubbish and Bins - General — 26 The Runway, Wigram, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 29 September 2026
• Animal - Domestic — Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 15 September 2026
• Pavement - General — 1 MacLaren Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 26 August 2026
• Playground Equipment — 32 The Runway, Wigram, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 21 August 2026
• Park - General Request — The Runway, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 19 August 2026
• Playground Equipment — The Runway, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 14 August 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation — 2 Auster Avenue, Wigram, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 29 July 2026
• Accessibility — The Runway, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 27 June 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 25 June 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 5 The Runway, Canterbury, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 25 June 2026
• Roads - General — 23 Porter Street, Wigram, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 2 June 2026
• Water Leak — 36 The Runway, Wigram, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand · 1 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.

• On made ground — Silt
• The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study