St Bernadette's School (Hornby)
Full Primary · State : Integrated · Hornby, Christchurch
166 students on the roll in Hornby · EQI 423 · an enrolment scheme in place.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 423. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 74 Hei Hei Road, Hornby, Christchurch, 8042 — the street’s record
- Its suburb: Hornby — the suburb’s own record
- Roll: 166 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1962
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.31 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Phone: 03-3429780
- Email: admin@stbernadetteschch.school.nz
- Contact: Joanne Jones
- Website: stbernadetteschch.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 Bernadette's School (Hornby) — in force from 2026-01-01 · 48 km²
It covers: Broomfield, Hei Hei, Hornby South, Islington, Yaldhurst — and the fringes of Hornby, Russley, Templeton.
Indicative only — the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.
Other schools near here
Hornby High School — decile 3 · EQI 489 · 554 m- Hornby Primary School — decile 3 · EQI 489 · 621 m
- Gilberthorpe School — decile 2 · EQI 475 · 774 m
- Te Manu Tukutuku South Hornby School — decile 4 · EQI 464 · 1.5 km
- Te Parito Kōwhai Russley School — decile 7 · EQI 420 · 2.3 km
- St Thomas of Canterbury College — decile 8 · EQI 430 · 2.5 km
Our Lady of Victories — decile 6 · EQI 376 · 2.7 km- Avonhead School - Rakipaoa — decile 7 · EQI 406 · 2.9 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.
- Wycola Park — Sports ground · 111 m to its edge
- Carmen Reserve — Botanic · 208 m to its edge
The bus stop
The nearest stop the Metro map carries — measured to the school’s pin, not its gate.
- Manurere St near Ranui St — 165 m · route 130
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 TC1 ground — Green Zone, Technical Category 1, Grey
- The liquefaction model grades it “Low Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 October 2026.
What stood on this ground before → · On the map →
Questions, answered briefly
Full Primary · State : Integrated · Co-Educational — in Hornby.
166 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 423 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.
1 zone polygon on record — it covers Broomfield, Hei Hei, Hornby South and 2 more suburbs (+ fringes). The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.