Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery

Its rating

Final decile (2022): 7. Current Equity Index: 442. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from — they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 5 Mollett St, Christchurch, Christchurch, 8140
• Roll: 654 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 2014
• Isolation index 0.03 — the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Phone: 03-3777773
• Email: office@aotawhiti.school.nz
• Contact: Anita Yarwood
• Website: aotawhiti.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 Michael's Church School — private — not rated · 266 m
• Catholic Cathedral College — decile 4 · EQI 448 · 880 m
• Christ's College — private — not rated · 992 m
• Te Puna Wai o Waipapa - Hagley College — decile 6 · EQI 468 · 1.1 km
• The Cathedral Grammar School — private — not rated · 1.1 km
• Christchurch East School — decile 3 · EQI 454 · 1.2 km
• St Mary's School (Christchurch) — decile 4 · EQI 397 · 1.4 km
• Waltham School — decile 3 · EQI 489 · 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.

• Friendship Corner — Botanic · 298 m to its edge
• City Mall · 310 m to its edge
• Tiffany Reserve · 328 m to its edge
• Excelsior Hotel Reserve — Botanic · 341 m to its edge
• High Street Triangles · 349 m to its edge
• Bridge Of Remembrance — Botanic · 358 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.

• Re:start - Lichfield St — Car park · 121 m
• Triangle — Car park · 363 m

The bus stop

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

• St Asaph St near Colombo St — 63 m · routes 3, 5, 7, 60, 80, 81, 84, 85, 86

The register nearby

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

• Colonial Motor Company Garage and Setting — 201 St Asaph Street
• Former P & D Duncan Ltd Building and Setting — 7/204 St Asaph Street
• Former R. Buchanan & Sons' City Foundry and Setting — 2/210 St Asaph Street
• St Michael's School Hall and Setting — 243 Durham Street South
• Commercial Building and Setting, Lawrie and Wilson Auctioneers — 210 Tuam Street
• St Michael's School Stone Building and Setting
• Former Tuam Street Hall and Setting — 214 Tuam Street
• Commercial Building and Setting, Former Sargood Son and Ewen — 92 Lichfield 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.

• The liquefaction model grades it “Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability” — the 2019 screening study