Medbury Preparatory School

Its rating

Private — the Ministry does not rate private schools. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 109 Clyde Road, Fendalton, Christchurch, 8540 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Fendalton — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 381 (September 2026)
• Boys School
• Not applicable
• Opened 1923
• Phone: 03-3516169
• Email: office@medbury.school.nz
• Contact: Dave Scott
• Website: medbury.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

• Tūora Fendalton School — decile 10 · EQI 371 · 559 m
• Christchurch Boys' High School — decile 10 · EQI 418 · 818 m
• St Teresa's School (Riccarton) — decile 4 · EQI 398 · 908 m
• Ilam School — decile 6 · EQI 394 · 911 m
• Kahikatea Kirkwood Intermediate — decile 7 · EQI 430 · 1.0 km
• Tuia Burnside Primary School — decile 4 · EQI 437 · 1.2 km
• Wairarapa Cobham Intermediate — decile 8 · EQI 405 · 1.3 km
• St Patrick's School (Bryndwr) — decile 10 · EQI 376 · 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.

• Fendalton Park — Sports ground · 189 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Creyke Rd — 71 m · routes 100, 130

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
• Dwelling and Setting, Avonhoe — 4 Medbury Terrace
• Dwelling and Setting — 83 Clyde Road
• Dwelling and Setting, Kooringa — 88A Clyde Road

The reports nearby

135 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Trees & parks and Roads & footpaths, 102 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Water Leak — 59 Kotare St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 12 September 2026
• Roads - General — 53 Kotare Street, Fendalton, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 1 August 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 48A Kotare Street, Fendalton, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 7 July 2026
• Roads - General — 2–6 Medbury Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 27 June 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — Kotare St near Medbury Tce, Canterbury Region 8041, New Zealand · 28 May 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 1 Medbury Terrace, Fendalton, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 9 May 2026
• Park - General Request — 185 Fendalton Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8052, New Zealand · 30 April 2026
• Pavement - General — 96 Clyde Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 16 April 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — Kotare St near Medbury Tce, Canterbury Region 8041, New Zealand · 7 March 2026
• Park - General Request — 185 Fendalton Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8052, New Zealand · 6 March 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 6 March 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — 7 Medbury Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand · 5 March 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 “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study