Rangi Ruru Pre-School is a small, not-for-profit, family-based early education and care centre at 46 Rhodes Street in Merivale, Christchurch. It opened in 1989, 100 years after Rangi Ruru school was founded, and it sits on the school grounds. The website describes a close link between the pre-school children and the older students, with visits to the school office, the field and the nursery, and joint events such as a Matariki art project, a junior music performance and a carol service. The pre-school also runs its own Pre-School Olympics and an annual trike-a-ton race, where each child decorates a bike or scooter and races laps at the big school.
Open Locally lists two other childcare providers within one kilometre. Fairleigh Kindergarten is 0.6 km away and rated 5.0 from 11 reviews, and Selwyn House School is also 0.6 km away, with no rating. For families in Merivale who want a school-based pre-school, this is the one on the grounds of the girls' school.