Canterbury Region

Student Population: Year level

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 for the region's territorial authorities using the drop down menu above.  For other territorial authorities first choose the appropriate region from the drop down menu above.

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

Roll by year level and ethnic group, as at 1 July 2025
Funding year
level		 Māori Pacific Asian MELAA Other European/
Pākehā		 International
students		 Total
Year 01 1,261 565 1,723 281 77 5,117 14 7,523
Year 02 1,316 571 1,745 291 80 5,289 13 7,823
Year 03 1,335 553 1,541 296 61 5,342 13 7,646
Year 04 1,308 518 1,588 319 70 5,375 24 7,779
Year 05 1,350 582 1,591 314 73 5,505 27 8,006
Year 06 1,233 512 1,522 270 66 5,374 27 7,736
Year 07 1,547 633 1,703 340 106 6,707 50 9,464
Year 08 1,314 532 1,569 279 92 5,798 49 8,320
Year 09 1,358 534 1,426 251 107 6,038 74 8,197
Year 10 1,441 567 1,316 229 103 6,179 113 8,349
Year 11 1,285 525 1,286 191 70 6,025 284 8,272
Year 12 1,060 434 1,300 205 68 5,491 296 7,665
Year 13+ 869 408 1,473 289 65 5,415 230 7,741
Total 16,677 6,934 19,783 3,555 1,038 73,655 1,214 104,521
Notes:
  1. Ethnicity is multiple response, that is, students who affiliated in more than one ethnic group have been counted in each ethnic group. Students are only counted once in the total, therefore, the ethnic groups may not sum to the total.
  2. MELAA (Middle Eastern, Latin American, and African) students.