Canterbury Region

Student Population: Age

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 age and ethnic group, as at 1 July 2025
Age Māori Pacific Asian MELAA Other European/
Pākehā		 International
students		 Total
Age 05 1,128 501 1,485 245 67 4,687 10 6,777
Age 06 1,344 570 1,730 277 85 5,294 10 7,775
Age 07 1,337 566 1,567 305 57 5,373 17 7,724
Age 08 1,333 536 1,678 330 75 5,435 23 7,973
Age 09 1,345 561 1,579 308 71 5,431 22 7,891
Age 10 1,273 545 1,565 287 69 5,555 33 7,995
Age 11 1,326 533 1,474 297 88 5,585 40 7,972
Age 12 1,313 538 1,588 260 92 5,828 44 8,315
Age 13 1,361 515 1,438 270 107 5,959 67 8,193
Age 14 1,418 566 1,329 221 101 6,221 79 8,326
Age 15 1,345 538 1,250 191 77 6,179 159 8,278
Age 16 1,073 450 1,240 209 74 5,556 310 7,712
Age 17 823 375 1,124 160 52 4,610 254 6,437
Age 18 182 110 379 52 17 1,015 122 1,658
Age 19+ 76 30 357 143 6 927 24 1,495
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.