Boards of Trustees
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 2008 there were 19,183 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:
Board of Trustees dimensions
The dimensions are:
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 allocate this additional funding is most often known as school deciles.
Schools are assigned a socio-economic score based on five census derived socio-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 dimension 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 2008.
Related Pages on Education Counts
The Boards of Trustees data collection page provides links to data, publications and indicators based on that collection.