Yaldhurst School – Tōtara Tūkaha
Full Primary · State · Yaldhurst
132 students on the roll · EQI 432 · an enrolment scheme in place.
Haere mai!Yaldhurst School Tōtara Tūkaha is a school (Year 1–8) where no one is lost in the crowd. We are nestled in a beautiful semi rural area... — yaldhurst.school.nz
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 5. Current Equity Index: 432. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 48 School Road, Yaldhurst, 7676 — the street’s record
- Its suburb: yaldhurst — the suburb’s own record
- Roll: 132 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1876
- An enrolment scheme is in place.
- Isolation index 0.33 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Cohort entry: Yes
- Phone: 03-3427933
- Email: secretary@yaldhurst.school.nz
- Contact: Gretchen Cocks
- Website: yaldhurst.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
- Yaldhurst Model School — in force from 2021-06-01 · 60 km²
It covers: Templeton, Yaldhurst — and the fringes of Christchurch Airport, Islington, McLeans Island.
Indicative only — the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary. Confirm with the school before relying on it.
Other schools near here
- Gilberthorpe School — decile 2 · EQI 475 · 2.4 km
- St Bernadette's School (Hornby) — decile 4 · EQI 423 · 3.2 km
- Te Parito Kōwhai Russley School — decile 7 · EQI 420 · 3.5 km
- Hornby Primary School — decile 3 · EQI 489 · 3.6 km
Hornby High School — decile 3 · EQI 489 · 3.7 km- Merrin School Ngā Whetū Kohara — decile 8 · EQI 398 · 4.5 km
- Te Manu Tukutuku South Hornby School — decile 4 · EQI 464 · 4.6 km
- Avonhead School - Rakipaoa — decile 7 · EQI 406 · 4.9 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.
- Yaldhurst Domain — Sports ground · 95 m to its edge
The register nearby
Heritage-register places within 300 m of the school’s point — what stood on the ground around it, or still does.
The reports nearby
93 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Trees & parks and Rubbish & dumping, 75 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.
Facility - General Request — 62 School Road, Yaldhurst, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand · 5 October 2026
Park - General Request — 62 School Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand · 30 September 2026
Dumped Rubbish — 62 School Road, Yaldhurst, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand · 22 July 2026
Dumped Rubbish — 62 School Road, Yaldhurst, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand · 29 June 2026
Public Toilet — 62 School Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand · 16 May 2026
Dumped Rubbish — 56 School Road, Yaldhurst, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand · 4 May 2026
Overgrown Vegetation — 62 School Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand · 15 April 2026
Public Toilet — 62 School Road, Yaldhurst, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand · 6 April 2026
Park - General Request — Yaldhurst, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand · 1 April 2026
Dumped Rubbish — 62 School Road, Yaldhurst, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand · 25 February 2026- Pothole — 33 School Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand · 17 February 2026
Flooding — 45 School Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 7676, New Zealand · 3 February 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 liquefaction model grades it “Liquefaction Damage is Unlikely” — 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 · Co-Educational.
132 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 432 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 5.
1 zone polygon on record — it covers Templeton, Yaldhurst (+ fringes). The boundary drawn here is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal answer.