Rudolf Steiner School (Chch)

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 8. Current Equity Index: 410. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 19 Ombersley Terrace, Opawa, Christchurch, 8241 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Opawa — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 283 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations may be requested
• Opened 1974
• An enrolment scheme is in place.
• Isolation index 0.16 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3370514
• Email: admin@ch.steiner.school.nz
• Website: ch.steiner.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

• St Martins School — decile 9 · EQI 402 · 614 m
• Te Kura o Ōpāwaho – Opawa School — decile 4 · EQI 463 · 654 m
• Hillview Christian School — decile 7 · EQI 418 · 703 m
• St Mark's School (Christchurch) — decile 10 · EQI 398 · 801 m
• TKKM o Waitaha — decile 1 · EQI 519 · 1.0 km
• Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto — decile 8 · EQI 412 · 1.1 km
• Mastery Schools New Zealand - Arapaki — EQI 434 · 1.4 km
• Waltham School — decile 3 · EQI 489 · 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.

• Hansen Park — Sports ground · 88 m to its edge
• Fifield Reserve · 299 m to its edge
• King George V Reserve · 307 m to its edge
• Centaurus Park · 398 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Wilsons Rd — 273 m · route 27

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, Springbank — 290 Riverlaw Terrace

The reports nearby

592 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Trees & parks and Graffiti & vandalism, 488 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Hansen Park 16A Butler Street, Opawa, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 6 October 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 267–273 Fifield Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 4 October 2026
• Pothole — 10 Hawford Road, Opawa, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 1 October 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General — Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 24 September 2026
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet — 5 Ombersley Terrace, Opawa, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 23 September 2026
• Hazard — vehicle — Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 22 September 2026
• Park - General Request — Hansen Park, Butler Street, Opawa Christchurch 8022, New Zealand · 16 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 91 Beckford Road, Opawa, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 11 September 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 22 August 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water — 251–257 Fifield Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 19 August 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water — 253 Fifield Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 13 August 2026
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet — 5 Ombersley Terrace, Opawa, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 24 July 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.

• On the recorded Hansen Park tip — 1936–1955 · the landfill register
• The liquefaction model grades it “High Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study