Highlights
- Dedicated Well-being Programme
- Innovative Digital Learning Approach
- Extensive Outdoor Education Opportunities
Overview
Enrolling your daughter at Rangi Ruru is the start of an exciting journey, and our dedicated Enrolments team are here to assist you and your daughter every step of the way. Years 7 & 9 are our two main intake levels, however girls can enrol to start at Rangi Ruru at any year, from Year 7 – 13 as places allow.
Rangi Ruru Girls’ School has been providing excellent education to girls from 1889. With an outstanding academic record, Rangi is considered one of the top schools in New Zealand.
Along with academic excellence, we also offer our students quality facilities, excellent teaching staff and small class sizes. We provide a broad curriculum and extensive co-curricular activities including over 40 different sports; a wide range of musical opportunities, speech, drama and dance.
Rangi Ruru has a strong pastoral care and wellbeing network and we are able to offer our international students any additional support they may need while they are in New Zealand. International students may live with a school-approved New Zealand homestay family or in Rangi Ruru’s modern, on-site boarding house (limited places are available).
Our teaching, learning and development programmes are designed to extend girls’ thinking and help them make the most of the opportunities offered to them.
Learning happens everywhere at Rangi. Our teaching and learning programmes, both curricular and co-curricular, are designed to extend girls’ thinking and support them to develop the skills and attributes that will enable them to flourish in their future. We believe in developing the whole girl, while nourishing a growth mindset and empowering our girls to take ownership of their learning.
- from 10
- to 18 years old
Girls Only
from 26,100 to 47,500 NZD
Founded in 1889
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710 students
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Academics
Rangi is Christchurch’s only girls’ school offering a true Years 7 to 13 experience, delivering a seamless curriculum by specialist teachers at all year levels. We believe in NCEA because it is a level playing field and a true New Zealand qualification that is well understood offshore.
Rangi is consistently in the top 3% of New Zealand schools for academic achievement. In national and international competitions and examinations, a high proportion of students feature at the top of their chosen fields of endeavour. More than 95% of Rangi girls go on to further tertiary study in New Zealand and overseas, many gaining substantial scholarships as a result of their work at school, and our dedicated Careers and Pathways Strategist who works with each girl one on one.
The New Zealand Curriculum
Rangi Ruru follows the New Zealand Curriculum, which specifies eight learning areas:
- English
- The Arts
- Health and Physical Education
- Languages
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Science
- Social Sciences
- Technology
The learning associated with each area is part of a broad, general education and lays a foundation for later specialisation. As with the key competencies, this learning is both end and means; valuable in itself and valuable for the pathways it opens to other learning.
While the learning areas are presented as distinct, this does not limit the ways in which we can structure the learning experiences offered to students. All learning should make use of the natural connections that exist between learning areas and that link learning areas to the values and key competencies.
Curriculum
Examinations
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Foreign languages taught
Tuition Fees for 2026
Learn more about Rangi Ruru Girls' School tuition fees for 2026, including general fee details and available scholarships.
Annual tuition fees
Annual tuition fees at Rangi Ruru Girls' School range from NZD 26,100 to NZD 47,500, depending on the student's grade level and program.
Scholarships
Scholarship information is not currently available. Please contact the school directly through this page to learn more.
Boarding
We provide a safe, secure and caring environment where students can focus on learning, discover new opportunities, and have fun at the same time.
Boarding at Rangi provides your daughter a safe, secure and caring environment in which she can feel happy and supported in all that she does. Our environment will help her focus on learning, discovering and exploring new opportunities and to have fun while doing it! Our Boarders come from many different areas of New Zealand and the world, yet they find a home in our House.
We value that each girl is unique and brings her own special character to our community. As a member of our Boarding Community we encourage girls to rise to our high standards of behaviour which reflect responsibility, and care for oneself, others and the environment.
By becoming involved in the many activities available, camaraderie will come from shared experiences and your daughter will soon develop a strong sense of common identity and belonging.
We look forward to welcoming your family to our community.
Facilities
Campus Facilities
Things to know
Minimum Enrollment Duration
This school requires a minimum enrollment of 12 months, ensuring students have adequate time to benefit from the curriculum and educational experience.
Student Community
Rangi Ruru Girls' School welcomes a vibrant community of 710 students representing different nationalities.
Special needs
Contact the school
How much does it cost to attend Rangi Ruru Girls’ School?
Tuition fees for Rangi Ruru Girls’ School range from 26100 to 47500 NZD per year depending on the student’s grade and chosen program.