TKKM o Waitaha

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 1. Current Equity Index: 519. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 45 Hassals Lane, Waltham, Christchurch, 8023 — the street’s record
• Its suburb: Waltham — the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 225 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 1992
• Isolation index 0.13 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Instruction: All students taught in te reo Māori
• Phone: 03-3771436
• Email: kura@whakapumau.ac.nz
• Contact: Hone Rusk
• Website: whakapumau.ac.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 Mark's School (Christchurch) — decile 10 · EQI 398 · 306 m
• Hillview Christian School — decile 7 · EQI 418 · 581 m
• Waltham School — decile 3 · EQI 489 · 668 m
• Te Kura o Ōpāwaho – Opawa School — decile 4 · EQI 463 · 825 m
• Rudolf Steiner School (Chch) — decile 8 · EQI 410 · 1.0 km
• Te Waka Unua School — decile 2 · EQI 509 · 1.4 km
• Kimihia Parents' College — decile 1 · EQI 569 · 1.6 km
• Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto — decile 8 · EQI 412 · 1.6 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.

• Acorn Reserve · 95 m to its edge
• Risingholme Park — Botanic · 375 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Ensors Rd — 197 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.

• Dwelling and Setting, Cardowan — 64 Opawa Road
• Dwelling and Setting, Former Calimo — 44 Opawa Road
• Dwelling and Setting, Roxburghe — 41D Opawa Road

The reports nearby

351 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point — most often Rubbish & dumping and Graffiti & vandalism, 279 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Water Leak — 23 Acorn Close, Waltham, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 5 October 2026
• Water Leak — 23 Acorn Close, Waltham, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 2 October 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 33–79 Fifield Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 28 September 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 67 Opawa Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 22 September 2026
• Road Signage — 55 Opawa Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 21 September 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General — 59 Opawa Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 12 September 2026
• Damaged Street Sign — 33–79 Fifield Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 1 September 2026
• Pavement - Damaged — 5 Acorn Close, Waltham, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 31 August 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 71 Fifield Terrace, Waltham, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 27 August 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 51 Fifield Terrace, Waltham, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 25 August 2026
• Dumped Rubbish — 55 Opawa Road, Waltham, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 22 August 2026
• Roads - General — 60 Opawa Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8023, New Zealand · 8 August 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
• The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study