Enrolment
Enrolment Information
Enrolment at the school is governed by The Ministry of Education enrolment scheme. All home-zone students have the right to attend Christchurch Girls’ High School | Te Kura o Hine Waiora. Home-zone applications are accepted at any time, however, please apply early to enable planning for next year.
Out-of-zone ballot applications for 2025 are closed.
Out-of-zone applications for 2026 are open
Out-of-zone applications for 2026 close on 25th July 2025 at 4pm.
Acland House applications for Year 9 2026 close on 28th February 2025. Queries should be directed to Acland House acland@cghs.school.nz
For further details, and all application forms see Steps for Enrolment below.


Zone Information
Our Home Zone
All students who live within the home zone described below shall be eligible to enrol at the school.
Please check the Ministry’s website here to see if you live within the Home Zone for Christchurch Girls’ High School | Te Kura o Hine Waiora. Search by entering your home address at the top of the page.
Note that eligibility to enrol is based on the below written description of the home zone. Any associated maps are a visual representation of this description.
Addresses on both sides of boundary roads are considered to be in the Home-Zone unless specified otherwise.
Starting from the intersection of Tuam Street and Colombo Street;
- West along Tuam Street to the north eastern corner of South Hagley Park
- West across South Hagley Park to the traffic lights south of Mayfair Street on Deans Avenue
- Due west along the northern side only of the cycleway to the intersection between Blenheim Road and Pope Street
- West along the northern side only of Blenheim Road to Lowe Street
- North west along Lowe Street to Mandeville Street
- South along Mandeville Street to Blenheim Road
- West along Blenheim Road to Wharenui Road
- North along Wharenui Road to Riccarton Road
- East along Riccarton Road to Clyde Road
- North east along Clyde Road to Creyke Road
- North west along Creyke Road to Ilam Road
- North west and east along Ilam Road to Wairakei Road
- North along Wairakei Road to Blighs Road
- North east along Blighs Road to Papanui Road
- South east along Papanui Road to Mays Road
- North east along Mays Road to Rutland Street
- South east along Rutland Street to Westminister Street
- North east along Westminister Street to Cranford Street
- South along Cranford Street to Edgeware Road
- West along Edgeware Road to Colombo Street
- South along Colombo Street to the northern intersection with Cathedral Square
- Due south to the 3-way intersection between Colombo Street, Cathedral Square and Hereford Street
- South along Colombo Street to Tuam Street
- All properties on the Chatham Islands are also included.
Proof of residence within the home zone will be required.
Out of Zone Enrolments
Each year the board will determine the number of places that are likely to be available in the following year for the enrolment of students who live outside the home zone. The board will publish this information by notice in a daily or community newspaper circulating in the area served by the school. The notice will indicate how applications are to be made and will specify a date by which all applications must be received.
Applications for enrolment will be processed in the following order of priority:
The order of priority in which applicants who live outside a school’s home zone are to be offered places at the school is as follows:
a) first priority This priority category is not applicable at Christchurch Girls’ High School Te Kura o Hine Waiora because the school does not run a special programme approved by the Secretary.
b) second priority must be given to any applicant who is the sibling of a current student of the school:
c) third priority must be given to any student who is the sibling of a former student of the school:
d) fourth priority must be given to any applicant who is a child of a former student of the school:
e) fifth priority must be given to any applicant who is either a child of an employee of the board of the school or a child of a member of the board of the school:
f) sixth priority must be given to all other applicants.
If there are more applicants in the second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth priority groups than there are places available, selection within the priority group will be by a ballot conducted in accordance with instructions issued by the Secretary under Section 11G(1) of the Education Act 1989. Parents will be informed of the date of any ballot by notice in a daily or community newspaper circulating in the area served by the school.
Applicants seeking second or third priority status may be required to give proof of a sibling relationship.