Boards of Trustees

Summary

This index page provides links to data on Boards of Trustees in schools.

Boards of trustees are locally elected boards that govern state and state integrated schools. Boards establish a charter which sets out the aims and objectives of the school.

As at 1 December 2011 there were 17,860 boards of trustees members. The data can be viewed by a range of dimensions, based on the individual, their role on the board, the school, and the school’s location. Boards of trustees data are available from the following tables:

Multi-Dimensional Pivot Table for Board of Trustees Numbers

This spreadsheet provides the underlying data for most of the one-on-one dimensional tables in the chart below. You can use the spreadsheets to create your own multi-dimensional pivot tables. (Use of these spreadsheets require MS Excel version 2007 or later).

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Board of Trustees Numbers 2011 [MS Excel 2.35 MB]

One-on-One Dimensional Tables for Board of Trustees Numbers

The chart below provides a number of one-on-one dimensional tables relating to Board of Trustees Numbers.

	Ethnic Group	Member Position	Member Type	School Authority	School Decile	School Gender	School Type	Education Region	Regional Council	Territorial Authority
Ethnic Group
Member Position
Member Type
School Authority
School Decile
School Gender
School Type
Education Region
Regional Council								N/A
Territorial Authority								N/A	N/A
Affiliation				N/A		N/A

Board of Trustees dimensions

The dimensions are:

Dimension	Description
Gender:	The gender of the member. Where this information is not provided to the Ministry it is recorded as unknown. Every table has gender as a dimension.
Ethnic Group:	The ethnic group the member belongs to, for example, Māori, Asian. The ethnic group data is presented at level 1 and prioritised.
Member Position:	The role the trustee has on the board, for example, chairperson, member, commissioner.
Member Type:	The group the member belongs to or represents, for example, parent, staff or student representative, principal, co-opted member.
School Authority:	The ownership of the school, for example, State, State-Integrated.
School Decile:	The decile assigned to the school of the member. Students from low socio-economic communities face more barriers to learning than students from high socio-economic communities. Schools that draw their roll from these low socio-economic communities are given greater funding to combat these barriers. The mechanism used to calculate and allow this additional funding is most often known as school deciles. Schools are assinged a socio-economic score based on five census derived scoio-economic factors. The 10 percent of schools with the lowest scores are considered decile 1 schools, the next 10 percent of schools are considered decile 2 schools, etc. Decile 1 schools have the highest proportion of low SES students (see technical comments).
School Gender:	The Gender of the students that a school of the member caters for, for example, co-educational, boys school.
School Type:	The type of the school of the member, for example primary school, composite school, secondary school.
Education Region:	The education region the school of the member is located in. These are four administrative regions created by the Ministry of Education and aligned with the Ministry's four regional offices.
Regional Council:	The regional council area the school of the member is located in. Regional council boundaries are defined by Statistics New Zealand.
Territorial Authority	The territorial authority area the school of the member is located in. Territorial authority boundaries are defined by Statistics New Zealand.
Affiliation:	This dimensions is only presented for state integrated schools. The religious or organisational affiliation of state integrated schools, for example, Roman Catholic, Montessori.
Year:	Data is presented for 1997 through to 2011.

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Board of Trustees Information