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Student Population: Trends

The Ministry uses school roll data in a number of ways: to fund and staff schools; to support policy analysis, development, and decision making; to monitor the outcomes of the New Zealand education system; and for national and international reporting purposes.

The roll data presented here is based on the 1 July roll returns.  The data includes gender, ethnic group, funding year level, and age.  A small amount of trend information is also available.

Identical information is available by school (Find Your Nearest School), as well as regional council and territorial authority (Know Your Region).

Alternatively a large amount of roll data is available from our statistical pages.  See July School Roll Returns.

Rolls by ethnic group and gender, as at 1 July (2017-2021)
Ethnic group Gender 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Māori Female 73 74 67 67 70
Māori Male 85 96 90 96 97
Māori Total 158 170 157 163 167
Pacific Female 7 13 12 18 19
Pacific Male 10 15 16 18 22
Pacific Total 17 28 28 36 41
Asian Female 23 28 31 29 26
Asian Male 21 20 25 29 30
Asian Total 44 48 56 58 56
Other Female 8 12 14 9 13
Other Male 14 17 15 13 15
Other Total 22 29 29 22 28
European/Pākehā Female 483 461 437 429 401
European/Pākehā Male 481 466 442 430 405
European/Pākehā Total 964 927 879 859 806
International Female 4 2 2 2 1
International Male 4 2 1 2 0
International Total 8 4 3 4 1
CoL Total Female 598 590 563 554 530
CoL Total Male 615 616 589 588 569
CoL Total Total 1,213 1,206 1,152 1,142 1,099

Note:

  1. Ethnicity is prioritised. MELAA (Middle Eastern, Latin American, and African) students are included with ‘Other’.

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