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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 1,435 824 1,322 258 60 3,339 2 5,766
Year 02 1,374 805 1,336 296 70 3,348 0 5,750
Year 03 1,379 805 1,286 295 52 3,441 2 5,875
Year 04 1,406 803 1,298 290 74 3,553 3 5,986
Year 05 1,409 838 1,229 324 72 3,750 1 6,225
Year 06 1,285 780 1,287 280 70 3,600 3 6,005
Year 07 1,613 935 1,386 282 100 4,391 8 7,079
Year 08 1,473 857 1,270 279 102 4,020 12 6,523
Year 09 1,483 926 1,162 244 134 4,310 28 6,462
Year 10 1,573 997 1,179 246 109 4,603 60 6,837
Year 11 1,445 924 1,133 208 101 4,622 176 6,878
Year 12 1,332 921 1,055 196 135 4,110 246 6,392
Year 13+ 1,027 731 1,035 211 108 3,727 158 5,723
Total 18,234 11,146 15,978 3,409 1,187 50,814 699 81,501
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.

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