Waimairi School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 9. Current Equity Index: 418. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 1 Tillman Avenue, Christchurch, 8052
• Roll: 330 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations may be requested
• Opened 1920
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.16 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3529208
• Email: admin@waimairi.school.nz
• Contact: Chris Panther
• Website: waimairi.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

• Waimairi School — in force from 2025-01-01 · 2 km²

It covers: Bryndwr, Papanui, Strowan.

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

Other schools near here

• Christchurch Adventist School — decile 5 · EQI 435 · 761 m
• St Patrick's School (Bryndwr) — decile 10 · EQI 376 · 787 m
• St Andrew's College (Christchurch) — private — not rated · 887 m
• He Tīwai Mātauranga Heaton Normal Intermediate — decile 9 · EQI 407 · 1.1 km
• Paparoa Street School — decile 10 · EQI 398 · 1.3 km
• Elmwood Normal School — decile 10 · EQI 376 · 1.3 km
• Wairakei School (Christchurch) — decile 6 · EQI 478 · 1.4 km
• Papanui High School — decile 7 · EQI 461 · 1.5 km

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