St Mary's School (Christchurch)
Full Primary · State : Integrated · Christchurch
127 students on the roll · EQI 397.
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 397. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 375 Manchester Street, Christchurch, 8013
- Roll: 127 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1894
- Isolation index 0.04 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Phone: 03-3662005
- Email: office@stmaryschch.school.nz
- Contact: David O'Neill
- Website: stmaryschch.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.
Other schools near here
- The Cathedral Grammar School — private — not rated · 1.0 km
Christchurch East School — decile 3 · EQI 454 · 1.0 km- Christ's College — private — not rated · 1.2 km
- Kingslea School — decile 1 · EQI 569 · 1.3 km
- St Michael's Church School — private — not rated · 1.4 km
Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery — decile 7 · EQI 442 · 1.4 km
St Margaret's College — private — not rated · 1.5 km
Selwyn House School — 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.
- Rose Historic Chapel Reserve — Botanic · 157 m to its edge
- Moa Reserve · 375 m to its edge
The bus stop
The nearest stop the Metro map carries — measured to the school’s pin, not its gate.
- Manchester St near Salisbury St — 100 m · route 44
The register nearby
Heritage-register places within 300 m of the school’s point — what stood on the ground around it, or still does.
- Former Dwelling and Setting, Holly Lea/McLean's Mansion — 387 Manchester Street
- Former St Mary's Convent Chapel and Setting — 67/868 Colombo Street
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
- On the plan’s flood map — Avon River — the managed reach
- The liquefaction model grades it “Medium 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.
127 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 397 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.
Rose Historic Chapel Reserve, Moa Reserve — green space within 400 m of the school’s point.