Waltham School

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 3. Current Equity Index: 489. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• Hastings Street East, Waltham, Christchurch, 8023 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Waltham — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 263 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1891
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.09 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3793137
• Email: admin@waltham.school.nz
• Contact: Tim Evers
• Website: waltham.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

• Waltham School — in force from 2017-03-28 · 3 km²

It covers: Opawa, Sydenham, Waltham.

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

Other schools near here

• TKKM o Waitaha — decile 1 · EQI 519 · 668 m
• Hillview Christian School — decile 7 · EQI 418 · 823 m
• St Mark's School (Christchurch) — decile 10 · EQI 398 · 965 m
• Catholic Cathedral College — decile 4 · EQI 448 · 1.3 km
• Te Kura o Ōpāwaho – Opawa School — decile 4 · EQI 463 · 1.5 km
• St Peter's School Te Kura Haoika — decile 8 · EQI 397 · 1.5 km
• Rudolf Steiner School (Chch) — decile 8 · EQI 410 · 1.5 km
• Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto — decile 8 · EQI 412 · 1.6 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.

• Tommy Taylor Reserve · 135 m to its edge
• Thackeray Reserve · 168 m to its edge
• Waltham Park — Sports ground · 239 m to its edge
• Cameron Reserve · 385 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Waltham Rd near Hastings St E — 141 m · route 27

The reports nearby

769 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Rubbish & dumping and Water & drains, 652 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• General Request — Flat 1, 27 Buffon Street, Waltham, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 6 October 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 16a Buffon Street, Waltham, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 6 October 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 149 Hastings Street East, Waltham, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 6 October 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Brougham St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 4 October 2026
• Water Leak — 54 Thackeray Pl, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 3 October 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water — 2 Goldsmith Place, Waltham, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 27 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 14 Buffon St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 26 September 2026
• Water Leak — 14 Buffon Street, Waltham, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 19 September 2026
• Water Leak — 2 Vienna St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 11 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 7–15 Buffon St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 6 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 34 Vienna St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 5 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 2 Vienna St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 4 September 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