Mastery Schools New Zealand - Arapaki

Its rating

Current Equity Index: 434. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 8 Kennedy Place, Hillsborough, Christchurch, 8022 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Hillsborough — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 124 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Opened 2025
• Isolation index 0.14 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-365 5022
• Email: jo@msnz.school.nz
• Contact: Jo Jessep (Acting)
• Website: msnz.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

• Te Kura o Ōpāwaho – Opawa School — decile 4 · EQI 463 · 1.0 km
• Ngutuawa School — decile 3 · EQI 526 · 1.1 km
• St Anne's School (Woolston) — decile 3 · EQI 447 · 1.3 km
• Rudolf Steiner School (Chch) — decile 8 · EQI 410 · 1.4 km
• St Mark's School (Christchurch) — decile 10 · EQI 398 · 1.6 km
• Te Waka Unua School — decile 2 · EQI 509 · 1.6 km
• Kimihia Parents' College — decile 1 · EQI 569 · 1.7 km
• St Martins School — decile 9 · EQI 402 · 1.7 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.

• Curries Reserve · 121 m to its edge
• Hillsborough Park — Sports ground · 215 m to its edge
• Heathcote Riverbank True Right · 328 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Opawa Rd near Brabourne St — 263 m · route 8

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, Bloomsbury — 37 Maunsell Street

The reports nearby

135 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Water & drains and Rubbish & dumping, 115 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Pavement - Damaged — 251 Opawa Road, Hillsborough, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand · 5 October 2026
• Poles and Signage - General — 255 Opawa Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand · 22 September 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 48 Curries Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand · 9 September 2026
• Public Toilet — 288 Opawa Road, Hillsborough, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand · 1 August 2026
• Water Leak — 288 Opawa Road, Hillsborough, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand · 18 July 2026
• Park - General Request — 31 Curries Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand · 18 June 2026
• Water Fountain — 288 Opawa Road, Hillsborough, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand · 12 June 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General — 14 Ribbonwood Place, Hillsborough, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand · 24 April 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General — 14 Ribbonwood Place, Hillsborough, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand · 24 April 2026
• Animal - Deceased — 255 Opawa Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand · 17 March 2026
• Water Leak — 88 Grange Street, Hillsborough, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand · 17 March 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 3 Kennedy Pl, Canterbury, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand · 16 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 February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over this point — mapped ground failure — a footprint, not a finding
• On the plan’s flood map — Heathcote River — the managed reach
• The liquefaction model grades it “Liquefaction Damage is Possible” — the 2019 screening study
• The rockfall survey counts 16 boulders within 500 m — 16 came down