Ko Taku Reo - Deaf Education New Zealand

Its rating

Current Equity Index: 516. Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws its students from, they say nothing about how well it teaches.

The record

• 38 Truro Street, Sumner, Christchurch, 8840, the street’s record
• Its suburb: Sumner, the suburb’s own record
• Roll: 102 (September 2026)
• Co-Educational
• Donations should not be requested, unless for a school camp
• Opened 2020
• Isolation index 0.39, the Ministry’s remoteness measure; higher is more remote
• Boarding: Yes
• Phone: 0800-332 369
• Email: info@kotakureo.school.nz
• Contact: Amy Geue
• Website: kotakureo.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

• Our Lady Star of the Sea School (Christchurch), decile 10 · EQI 401 · 694 m
• Sumner School, decile 10 · EQI 382 · 809 m
• Te Raekura Redcliffs School, decile 10 · EQI 400 · 3.3 km
• Lyttelton Primary School, decile 9 · EQI 424 · 3.7 km
• Mt Pleasant School, decile 10 · EQI 393 · 4.0 km
• Heathcote Valley School, decile 9 · EQI 424 · 4.0 km
• Diamond Harbour School, decile 10 · EQI 412 · 6.1 km
• South New Brighton School, decile 6 · EQI 454 · 6.3 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.

• Wakefield Reserve No. 1 · 220 m to its edge
• Wakefield Reserve No. 2 · 273 m to its edge
• St Leonards Park, Sports ground · 289 m to its edge
• Greenwood Park, Regional · 329 m to its edge
• Finnsarby Reserve · 331 m to its edge

The bus stop

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

• Wakefield Ave near Paisley St, 199 m · route 3

The reports nearby

259 reports pinned within 250 m of the school’s point, most often Water & drains and Roads & footpaths, 213 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the school.

• Trees - General, 46 Whitfield Street, Sumner, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 15 October 2026
• Trees - General, Sumner, Sumner, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 23 September 2026
• Pavement - General, 7 Ocean View Terrace, Sumner, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 21 September 2026
• Trees - General, 33A Van Asch St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 16 September 2026
• Hazard, vehicle, 99 Heberden Avenue, Sumner, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 24 August 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water, 4 Ocean View Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 31 July 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation, 2 Ocean View Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 21 July 2026
• Hazard, vehicle, 4 Ocean View Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 22 June 2026
• Accessibility, 3 Paisley Street, Sumner, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 14 June 2026
• Poles and Signage - General, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 9 June 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water, 29A Truro Street, Sumner, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 4 June 2026
• Bus Shelter Issue, Canterbury, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand · 1 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.

• Inside a modelled tsunami reach, ECAN Report R12/38 2012 · ECAN Report R14/78 2014
• On the plan’s flood map, Sumner, the managed reach
• Inside a recorded flood footprint, 2011-2014 Flooding - Mayoral Flood Taskforce
• The liquefaction model grades it “Liquefaction Damage is Possible”, the 2019 screening study
• The rockfall survey counts 671 boulders within 500 m, 410 came down · 146 wobble easy