St Albans Catholic School (Christchurch)

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 9. Current Equity Index: 394. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 49 Rutland Street, St Albans, Christchurch, 8014 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: St Albans — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 114 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations may be requested
• Opened 1858
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.1 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3557538
• Email: office@stalbanscatholic.school.nz
• Contact: Abraham Atherton
• Website: stalbanscatholic.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

• St Albans Catholic School (Christchurch) — in force from 2026-01-01 · 2 km²

It covers: Merivale, Saint Albans.

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

Other schools near here

• St Albans School — decile 8 · EQI 414 · 464 m
• St Andrew's College (Christchurch) — private — not rated · 1.1 km
• Paparoa Street School — decile 10 · EQI 398 · 1.1 km
• He Tīwai Mātauranga Heaton Normal Intermediate — decile 9 · EQI 407 · 1.2 km
• St Francis of Assisi Catholic School — decile 8 · EQI 408 · 1.2 km
• Selwyn House School — private — not rated · 1.2 km
• Ferndale Te Ahu — decile 4 · EQI 521 · 1.3 km
• Mairehau Primary School — decile 6 · EQI 466 · 1.4 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.

• Malvern Park — Sports ground · 237 m to its edge
• Knowles Plantation · 363 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Springfield Rd near St Albans St — 298 m · route 100

The reports nearby

468 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Roads & footpaths and Water & drains, 375 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Hazard — vehicle — 35 Rutland Street, St Albans, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 27 September 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General — 22 Gosset St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 18 September 2026
• Water Leak — 60 Somme Street, St Albans, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 20 August 2026
• Abandoned Vehicle — 15 Somme St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 11 August 2026
• Water Leak — 36 Carrington St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 31 July 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 31 Gosset Street, St Albans, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 27 July 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General — 22 Gosset St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 24 July 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 38 Gosset Street, St Albans, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 20 July 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 6 Malvern St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 16 July 2026
• Water Leak — 36 Carrington St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 11 July 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 6 Malvern St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 24 June 2026
• Sewer - Leak / Blockage — 54 Rutland Street, St Albans, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 5 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.

• Graded TC3 ground — Green Zone, Technical Category 3, Blue
• 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
• Inside a recorded flood footprint — 1986 Storm Report (July)
• The liquefaction model grades it “High Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study