St Mark's School (Christchurch)

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 10. Current Equity Index: 398. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• Cholmondeley Avenue, Opawa, Christchurch, 8023 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Opawa — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 241 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations may be requested
• Opened 1921
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.13 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3327339
• Email: office@saintmarks.school.nz
• Contact: Adrian Rennie
• Website: saintmarks.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

• TKKM o Waitaha — decile 1 · EQI 519 · 306 m
• Te Kura o Ōpāwaho – Opawa School — decile 4 · EQI 463 · 519 m
• Hillview Christian School — decile 7 · EQI 418 · 613 m
• Rudolf Steiner School (Chch) — decile 8 · EQI 410 · 801 m
• Waltham School — decile 3 · EQI 489 · 965 m
• Te Waka Unua School — decile 2 · EQI 509 · 1.3 km
• St Martins School — decile 9 · EQI 402 · 1.4 km
• Kimihia Parents' College — decile 1 · EQI 569 · 1.5 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.

• Risingholme Park — Botanic · 82 m to its edge
• Acorn Reserve · 186 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• St Martins Rd near Ensors Rd — 163 m · route Oa

The register nearby

Heritage-register places within 300 m of the school’s point — what stood on the ground around it, or still does.

• Former Dwelling and Setting, Risingholme — 22 Cholmondeley Avenue
• 9 Ford Road — 9 Ford Road
• Dwelling and Setting, Cardowan — 64 Opawa Road

The reports nearby

418 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Graffiti & vandalism and Trees & parks, 345 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Water Leak — 28 Cholmondeley Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 28 September 2026
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet — Ensors Rd, Opawa, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 19 September 2026
• Water Leak — 15 Ensors Road, Opawa, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 24 August 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation — 22 Cholmondeley Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 21 August 2026
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet — 22 Cholmondeley Ave, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 7 August 2026
• Bus Shelter Issue — 24 Ensors Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 2 August 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 125 Fifield Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 25 July 2026
• Playground Equipment — Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 24 July 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 1 Ensors Road, Opawa, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 11 July 2026
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet — 25 Ensors Road, Opawa, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 29 June 2026
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet — 25 Ensors Road, Opawa, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 11 June 2026
• Trees - General — Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 10 June 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.

• Graded TC3 ground — Green Zone, Technical Category 3, Blue
• 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 “High Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study