Catholic Cathedral College
Secondary (Year 7-15) · State : Integrated · Phillipstown, Christchurch
597 students on the roll in Phillipstown · EQI 448.
Catholic Cathedral College is the only Catholic Co- Educational secondary school in Christchurch. — cathcollege.school.nz
Its rating
Final decile (2022): 4. Current Equity Index: 448. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.
The record
- 62 Ferry Road, Phillipstown, Christchurch, 8145 — the street’s record
- Its suburb: Phillipstown — the suburb’s own record
- Roll: 597 (September 2026)
- Co-Educational
- Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
- Opened 1868
- Isolation index 0.05 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
- Phone: 03-9821690
- Email: admin@cathcollege.school.nz
- Contact: Lee-Ann Nanai
- Website: cathcollege.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
Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery — decile 7 · EQI 442 · 880 m
Christchurch East School — decile 3 · EQI 454 · 902 m- St Michael's Church School — private — not rated · 1.1 km
- Waltham School — decile 3 · EQI 489 · 1.3 km
- Te Aratai College — decile 3 · EQI 507 · 1.7 km
- TKKM o Waitaha — decile 1 · EQI 519 · 1.7 km
- St Mary's School (Christchurch) — decile 4 · EQI 397 · 1.7 km
- Christ's College — private — not rated · 1.8 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.
- Wilson Park · 231 m to its edge
- Washington Way Reserve — Sports ground · 287 m to its edge
Facilities nearby
Council facilities within 400 m of the school’s point — libraries, pools and centres a parent can walk to.
- St Asaph — Car park · 292 m
The bus stop
The nearest stop the Metro map carries — measured to the school’s pin, not its gate.
- Ferry Rd (Ritchies Depot EB) — 133 m · route 3
The register nearby
Heritage-register places within 300 m of the school’s point — what stood on the ground around it, or still does.
- 319 St Asaph Street — 319 St Asaph Street
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 plan’s flood map — Bells Creek — the managed reach
- The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study
Ministry of Education school directory via data.govt.nz · zones via the Ministry’s enrolment-zone map · refreshed 3 October 2026.
What stood on this ground before → · On the map →
Questions, answered briefly
Secondary (Year 7-15) · State : Integrated · Co-Educational — in Phillipstown.
597 on the roll at September 2026 — the Ministry of Education’s count.
EQI 448 — its final decile (2022, before the EQI replaced it) was 4.
Wilson Park, Washington Way Reserve — green space within 400 m of the school’s point.