Christchurch City · NZ state schools
Schools by level
Elementary 89 · Middle school 8 · High school 19 · Other / combined 18
At a glance
- Students
- 60,332 (2026)
- Schools
- 134
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Schools (134)
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Elementary 89
Addington Te Kura Taumatua
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 361 · Zoned
Avonhead School - Rakipaoa
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 614 · Zoned
Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 489 · Zoned
Bishopdale School Te Kura o Papakōhatu
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 177 · Zoned
Cashmere Primary Te Pae Kererū
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 501 · Zoned
Christ The King School (Burnside)
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 322 · Zoned
Christchurch East School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 301 · Zoned
Cotswold Mātāhae School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 568 · Zoned
Diamond Harbour School
Grades Year 1–8 · Diamond Harbour · Students 122 · Application / selective
Duvauchelle School
Grades Year 1–6 · Duvauchelle · Students 28 · Zoned
Elmwood Normal School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 564 · Zoned
Gilberthorpe School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 236 · Zoned
Harewood School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 167 · Zoned
Heathcote Valley School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 188 · Zoned
Hoon Hay Te Kura Kōaka
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 454 · Zoned
Hornby Primary School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 275 · Zoned
Ilam School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 411 · Zoned
Knights Stream School- Mingimingi Hautoa
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 682 · Zoned
Little River School
Grades Year 1–8 · Little River · Students 39 · Application / selective
Lyttelton Primary School
Grades Year 1–8 · Lyttelton · Students 134 · Zoned
Mairehau Primary School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 385 · Zoned
Mastery Schools New Zealand - Arapaki
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 124 · Charter
Merrin School Ngā Whetū Kohara
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 469 · Zoned
Mt Pleasant School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 398 · Zoned
New Brighton Catholic School (Chch)
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 196 · Application / selective
Ngutuawa School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 132 · Zoned
Oaklands Te Kura o Ōwaka
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 646 · Zoned
Okains Bay School
Grades Year 1–8 · Okains Bay · Students 10 · Application / selective
Our Lady of the Assumption School (Chch)
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 335 · Zoned
Our Lady of Victories
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 263 · Zoned
Our Lady Star of the Sea School (Christchurch)
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 106 · Application / selective
Ōuruhia Model School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 20 · Zoned
Papanui Primary School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 236 · Zoned
Paparoa Street School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 341 · Zoned
Pareawa Banks Avenue School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 363 · Zoned
Parkview Pārua
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 393 · Zoned
Pūtahi Belfast School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 453 · Zoned
Queenspark Te Hua Mānuka
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 459 · Zoned
Rāwhiti School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 551 · Zoned
Redwood School (Christchurch)
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 303 · Zoned
Sacred Heart School (Christchurch)
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 195 · Zoned
Somerfield Te Kura Wairepo
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 571 · Zoned
South New Brighton School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 393 · Zoned
St Albans Catholic School (Christchurch)
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 114 · Zoned
St Albans School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 599 · Zoned
St Anne's School (Woolston)
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 182 · Zoned
St Bernadette's School (Hornby)
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 166 · Zoned
St Francis of Assisi Catholic School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 476 · Zoned
St James School (Aranui)
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 105 · Zoned
St Joseph's School (Papanui)
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 448 · Zoned
St Mark's School (Christchurch)
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 241 · Zoned
St Martins School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 492 · Zoned
St Mary's School (Christchurch)
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 127 · Application / selective
St Patrick's School (Bryndwr)
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 175 · Zoned
St Peter's School Te Kura Haoika
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 163 · Zoned
St Teresa's School (Riccarton)
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 173 · Zoned
Sumner School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 323 · Zoned
Tamariki School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 51 · Application / selective
Te Ahuwai Bromley School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 371 · Zoned
Te Ara Koropiko West Spreydon School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 283 · Zoned
Te Ara Maurea Roydvale School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 294 · Zoned
Te Hiwa Shirley Primary School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 379 · Zoned
Te Huarahi Linwood Avenue School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 355 · Zoned
Te Kāpehu Riccarton School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 371 · Zoned
Te Kōmanawa Rowley School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 227 · Zoned
Te Kura o Huriawa Thorrington
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 456 · Zoned
Te Kura o Matarangi - Northcote School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 162 · Zoned
Te Kura o Mōkihi Spreydon School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 289 · Zoned
Te Kura o Ōhinetahi - Governors Bay
Grades Year 1–8 · Governors Bay · Students 93 · Zoned
Te Kura o Ōpāwaho – Opawa School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 376 · Zoned
Te Kura o Rātā Templeton School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 287 · Zoned
Te Kura o Te Mātāpuna Isleworth School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 246 · Zoned
Te Kura o te Tauawa Halswell School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 740 · Zoned
Te Manu Tukutuku South Hornby School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 310 · Zoned
Te Parito Kōwhai Russley School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 440 · Zoned
Te Raekura Redcliffs School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 264 · Zoned
Te Rito Harakeke - Marshland School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 609 · Zoned
Te Waka Unua School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 501 · Zoned
Tuia Burnside Primary School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 326 · Zoned
Tūora Fendalton School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 445 · Zoned
Waimairi School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 329 · Zoned
Wairakei School (Christchurch)
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 210 · Zoned
Waitākiri Primary School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 558 · Zoned
Waltham School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 263 · Zoned
Westburn Te Kura O Hereora
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 484 · Zoned
Wharenui School
Grades Year 1–8 · Christchurch · Students 441 · Zoned
Whītau School
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 314 · Zoned
Wigram Primary School - Te Piki Kāhu
Grades Year 1–6 · Christchurch · Students 492 · Zoned
Yaldhurst School – Tōtara Tūkaha
Grades Year 1–8 · Yaldhurst · Students 132 · Zoned
Middle school 8
Breens Intermediate
Grades Year 7–8 · Christchurch · Students 274 · Zoned
Casebrook Intermediate
Grades Year 7–8 · Christchurch · Students 438 · Zoned
Chisnallwood Intermediate
Grades Year 7–8 · Christchurch · Students 411 · Zoned
Christchurch South Karamata Intermediate School
Grades Year 7–8 · Christchurch · Students 491 · Zoned
He Tīwai Mātauranga Heaton Normal Intermediate
Grades Year 7–8 · Christchurch · Students 541 · Zoned
Kahikatea Kirkwood Intermediate
Grades Year 7–8 · Christchurch · Students 291 · Zoned
Te Oraka
Grades Year 7–8 · Christchurch · Students 194 · Zoned
Wairarapa Cobham Intermediate
Grades Year 7–8 · Christchurch · Students 678 · Zoned
High school 19
Avonside Girls' High School
Grades Year 9–15 · Christchurch · Students 1,086 · Zoned
Burnside High School
Grades Year 9–15 · Christchurch · Students 2,736 · Zoned
Cashmere High School
Grades Year 9–15 · Christchurch · Students 2,449 · Zoned
Catholic Cathedral College
Grades Year 7–15 · Christchurch · Students 597 · Application / selective
Christchurch Boys' High School
Grades Year 9–15 · Christchurch · Students 1,403 · Zoned
Christchurch Girls' High School -Te Kura o Hine Waiora
Grades Year 9–15 · Christchurch · Students 1,308 · Zoned
Christchurch North College
Grades Year 7–15 · Christchurch · Students 85 · Charter
Hornby High School
Grades Year 7–15 · Christchurch · Students 1,015 · Zoned
Mairehau High School
Grades Year 9–15 · Christchurch · Students 406 · Zoned
Marian College
Grades Year 9–15 · Christchurch · Students 427 · Zoned
Papanui High School
Grades Year 9–15 · Christchurch · Students 1,416 · Zoned
Riccarton High School
Grades Year 9–15 · Christchurch · Students 1,110 · Zoned
Shirley Boys' High School - Ngā Tama o Ōruapaeroa
Grades Year 9–15 · Christchurch · Students 1,295 · Zoned
St Bede's College
Grades Year 9–15 · Christchurch · Students 794 · Zoned
St Thomas of Canterbury College
Grades Year 7–15 · Christchurch · Students 686 · Zoned
Te Aratai College
Grades Year 7–15 · Christchurch · Students 1,238 · Zoned
Te Kura Tuarua o Horomaka Hillmorton High School
Grades Year 7–15 · Christchurch · Students 1,414 · Zoned
Te Puna Wai o Waipapa - Hagley College
Grades Year 9–15 · Christchurch · Students 1,960 · Zoned
Villa Maria College
Grades Year 7–15 · Christchurch · Students 831 · Zoned
Other / combined 18
Aidanfield Christian School
Grades Year 1–13 · Christchurch · Students 477 · Zoned
Akaroa Area School
Grades Year 1–13 · Akaroa · Students 115 · Application / selective
Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery
Grades Year 1–13 · Christchurch · Students 654 · Application / selective
Christchurch Adventist School
Grades Year 1–13 · Christchurch · Students 293 · Zoned
Emmanuel Christian School
Grades Year 1–10 · Christchurch · Students 301 · Zoned
Ferndale Te Ahu
Christchurch · Students 140 · Application / selective
Haeata Community Campus
Grades Year 1–13 · Christchurch · Students 632 · Zoned
Hillview Christian School
Grades Year 1–13 · Christchurch · Students 562 · Zoned
Kingslea School
Christchurch · Students 117 · Application / selective
Ko Taku Reo - Deaf Education New Zealand
Christchurch · Students 102 · Application / selective
Middleton Grange School
Grades Year 1–13 · Christchurch · Students 1,395 · Zoned
Pītau-Allenvale School
Christchurch · Students 135 · Application / selective
Rudolf Steiner School (Chch)
Grades Year 1–13 · Christchurch · Students 283 · Zoned
Southern Health School
Christchurch · Students 20 · Application / selective
Te Pā o Rākaihautū
Grades Year 1–13 · Christchurch · Students 205 · Zoned
Te Whānau o Ōtūmatua
Christchurch · Students 10 · Application / selective
TKKM o Te Whanau Tahi
Grades Year 1–13 · Christchurch · Students 234 · Application / selective
TKKM o Waitaha
Grades Year 1–13 · Christchurch · Students 226 · Application / selective
Checklist before renting in this district
Check these before you sign a lease.
Checked the assigned school for the exact address with the official lookup before signing
Source:Ministry of Education New Zealand (checked 2026-10-31)
Know that moving into a zone temporarily to get a place is not allowed
Source:Ministry of Education New Zealand (checked 2026-10-31)
Asked the district or council whether boundary or admission changes are planned
Asked whether the assigned school has room (or sends overflow elsewhere)
Checked that the lease is accepted as proof of address on the enrolment list
Asked how the assigned school supports English learners (ESL/EAL)
Checked the commute (school-bus eligibility, walking route)
Checked on the state or board page whether our visa means paying public-school fees
Always confirm your own situation with the official authority or an immigration professional.
Source:Ministry of Education New Zealand (checked 2026-10-29)
ESL / ELL support
Public schools support English learners as ESL/ELL (Canada), EAL/D (Australia) or ESOL (New Zealand). An English assessment at enrolment decides the support; ask the school or board about its programme.
Sources
- Ministry of Education — New Zealand Schools Directory2026· Checked 2026-10-31
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