St James School (Aranui)

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 1. Current Equity Index: 501. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• Rowan Avenue, Aranui, Christchurch, 8061 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Aranui — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 105 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1965
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.21 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-9820009
• Email: principal@stjames.school.nz
• Contact: Rose Firth-Scott
• Website: stjames.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 James School (Aranui) — in force from 2026-01-01 · 10 km²

It covers: Aranui, Avondale, Bexley, Wainoni — and the fringes of Bromley.

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

Other schools near here

• Haeata Community Campus — decile 1 · EQI 545 · 740 m
• Chisnallwood Intermediate — decile 5 · EQI 482 · 1.3 km
• Nova Montessori School — private — not rated · 1.6 km
• New Brighton Catholic School (Chch) — decile 6 · EQI 445 · 1.7 km
• Avonside Girls' High School — decile 6 · EQI 472 · 2.0 km
• Shirley Boys' High School - Ngā Tama o Ōruapaeroa — decile 6 · EQI 464 · 2.0 km
• Rāwhiti School — decile 3 · EQI 478 · 2.0 km
• Whītau School — decile 2 · EQI 513 · 2.8 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.

• Wainoni Park — Sports ground · 315 m to its edge
• Carisbrook Playground · 354 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Pages Rd near Rowan Ave — 406 m · route 5

The reports nearby

242 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Rubbish & dumping and Graffiti & vandalism, 203 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Dumped Rubbish — 6 Carisbrooke Street, Aranui, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 29 September 2026
• General Request — 35 Rowan Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 13 August 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General — 86 Hampshire Street, Aranui, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 13 August 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation — 11 Carisbrooke St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 18 July 2026
• General Request — 36 Rowan Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 12 July 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 11 Lyndhurst Cres, Canterbury, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 24 June 2026
• Accessibility — 35 Rowan Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 14 June 2026
• Abandoned Vehicle — 9 Lyndhurst Cres, Canterbury, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 12 May 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 22 Carisbrooke Street, Aranui, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 11 May 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 22 Eureka Street, Aranui, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 11 May 2026
• Flooding — 64 Marlow Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 31 March 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 38 Marlow Road, Aranui, Christchurch 8061, New Zealand · 30 March 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 liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study