Our Lady Star of the Sea School (Christchurch)

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 10. Current Equity Index: 401. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 45 Colenso Street, Sumner, Christchurch, 8840 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Sumner — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 106 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations may be requested
• Opened 1928
• Isolation index 0.38 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3265315
• Email: office@ourladystar.school.nz
• Contact: Dean Isherwood
• Website: ourladystar.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

• Sumner School — decile 10 · EQI 382 · 306 m
• Ko Taku Reo - Deaf Education New Zealand — EQI 516 · 694 m
• Te Raekura Redcliffs School — decile 10 · EQI 400 · 3.1 km
• Mt Pleasant School — decile 10 · EQI 393 · 4.0 km
• Heathcote Valley School — decile 9 · EQI 424 · 4.4 km
• Lyttelton Primary School — decile 9 · EQI 424 · 4.4 km
• South New Brighton School — decile 6 · EQI 454 · 5.9 km
• Ngutuawa School — decile 3 · EQI 526 · 6.5 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.

• St Leonards Park — Sports ground · 264 m to its edge
• Greenwood Park — Regional · 372 m to its edge
• Heritage Trail · 376 m to its edge
• Bernie Hansen Reserve · 376 m to its edge
• Wakefield Reserve No. 2 · 394 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Colenso St near Menzies St — 79 m · route 3

The register nearby

Heritage-register places within 300 m of the school’s point — what stood on the ground around it, or still does.

• Dwelling and Setting — 58 Colenso Street

The reports nearby

205 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Water & drains and Roads & footpaths, 167 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Dumped Rubbish — 52 Colenso Street, Sumner, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 28 September 2026
• Damaged Street Sign — 21 Menzies Street, Sumner, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 25 September 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General — 21 Arnold St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 2 August 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 34 Colenso St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 29 July 2026
• Water Leak — 10–12 Colenso St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 3 July 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General — 23 Arnold St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 13 June 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 39 Menzies Street, Sumner, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 7 June 2026
• Water Leak — 7 Whitfield St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 30 May 2026
• Accessibility — 59 Dryden St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 27 May 2026
• Water Leak — 7 Whitfield St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 25 May 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 57 Dryden Street, Sumner, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 18 May 2026
• Abandoned Vehicle — 25 Dryden St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 16 May 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.

• Inside a modelled tsunami reach — ECAN Report R12/38 2012 · ECAN Report R14/78 2014
• The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study
• The rockfall survey counts 50 boulders within 500 m — 44 came down · 1 wobbles easy