St Albans School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 8. Current Equity Index: 414. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 17 Sheppard Place, St Albans, Christchurch, 8014 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: St Albans — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 599 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations may be requested
• Opened 1873
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.09 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Instruction: Some students taught in te reo Māori
• Cohort entry: Yes
• Phone: 03-3559132
• Email: stalbans@stalbans.school.nz
• Contact: Andrea Harnett
• Website: stalbans.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 School — in force from 2020-07-04 · 3 km²

It covers: Edgeware, Mairehau, 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 Catholic School (Christchurch) — decile 9 · EQI 394 · 464 m
• St Francis of Assisi Catholic School — decile 8 · EQI 408 · 1.1 km
• Mairehau Primary School — decile 6 · EQI 466 · 1.3 km
• Selwyn House School — private — not rated · 1.3 km
• Ferndale Te Ahu — decile 4 · EQI 521 · 1.4 km
• St Margaret's College — private — not rated · 1.5 km
• Te Hiwa Shirley Primary School — decile 3 · EQI 494 · 1.5 km
• St Andrew's College (Christchurch) — private — not rated · 1.5 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.

• English Park — Sports ground · 59 m to its edge
• St Albans Tennis Club — Sports ground · 231 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Cranford St near Berwick St — 268 m · route 27

The reports nearby

601 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Roads & footpaths and Graffiti & vandalism, 488 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Pavement - Damaged — 19 Courtenay Street, St Albans, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 27 September 2026
• Park - General Request — 18 Sheppard Pl, Canterbury, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 25 September 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 85 Trafalgar St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 20 September 2026
• Litter — 115 Cranford Street, St Albans, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 10 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 117 Cranford St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 31 August 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 30 Courtenay Street, St Albans, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 29 August 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation — 83 Westminster Street, St Albans, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 28 August 2026
• Noise - General — 18 Sheppard Pl, Canterbury, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 26 August 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation — 18 Sheppard Pl, Canterbury, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 20 August 2026
• Fallen Tree — 18 Sheppard Pl, Canterbury, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 19 August 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 15 Coles Pl, Canterbury, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 17 August 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water — 117 Cranford St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand · 10 August 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.

• The February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over this point — mapped ground failure — a footprint, not a finding
• The September 2010 survey drew liquefaction over this point — mapped ground failure — a footprint, not a finding
• The liquefaction model grades it “High Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study