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Potaka School

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Finances

New Zealand schools are funded primarily by the government. The three main components of government funding are school operations, teacher salaries, and property funding. In addition schools receive various forms of ‘in-kind’ resourcing from the government, including software licensing, laptops for principals, other ICT support and professional development.

State and state-integrated schools get funding from all three sources, while private schools only receive School Operations funding.

Identical information is available by regional council  and territorial local authority through the Know Your Region pages.

Government funds (2021-2025)
Year School operations ($) Teacher salaries ($) Property funding ($)
2021 134,198 242,666 750
2022 192,181 260,834 162,733
2023 306,573 425,092 621,485
2024 283,163 461,707 622,569
2025 280,627 487,597 609,077

Notes:

  1. School Operations – This is the total grant and has had any manual adjustments removed for fees and levies, such as International Student, Foreign Fee Paying and the Risk Management Scheme.
  2. Property Funding – This includes the Five Year Agreement (5YA) funding programme. This funding is allocated to boards for modernising and upgrading school buildings. Schools can choose which projects to progress using the funding, but should prioritise those projects required to maintain health and safety standards, upgrade essential infrastructure and create modern learning environments.

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