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There are 145 schools in Christchurch, New Zealand's second most-populous city, serving approximately 59,000 primary and secondary school students. [1] Most schools are large urban schools based in the city of Christchurch itself, including some of the largest in the country, with several small rural primary schools and a combined primary/secondary school on Banks Peninsula.
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Twizel Primary School, a contributing primary (Year 1–6) school, and Twizel High School, a Year 7–13 secondary school. The schools opened in Twizel in 1970 and 1971 respectively, primarily to serve the children of workers building the Upper Waitaki hydroelectric scheme.
Middleton Grange School belongs to the Christchurch Christian Schools Network (CSN) and the New Zealand Association for Christian Schools (NZACS). The school premises used to house the Christchurch headquarters of the Maxim Institute, a conservative Christian thinktank. Bruce Logan was once Middleton Grange's former curriculum director.
The Grange School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in the Somerford area of Christchurch in the English county of Dorset. [1] The school mainly admits pupils from the Somerford, Mudeford & Burton areas.
Avonhead School is a full primary school (years 1–8, or ages 5–13) within Avonhead, located between Ferrier park to the West and Avonhead Road to the East. The school has 631 students as of November 2024. [15] Although located within Avonhead, the school zone also includes sections of the nearby suburbs of Ilam and Sockburn.
It contains numerous rural primary schools and several small town primary and secondary schools. Area schools in isolated areas provide complete education from primary to secondary level. All schools in the region are coeducational. In New Zealand schools, students begin formal education in Year 1 at the age of five. [1]
Linwood is one of Christchurch's older suburbs which was established in 1850. [3] " Linwood" was given its name by Joseph Brittan , who purchased rural section 300 in Avonside. The adjoining rural section 301 was to be part of the farm, but the right was sold but probably farmed with rural section 300 and was eventually bought back by his son ...