Southland 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 05 300 71 160 25 8 764 0 1,104
Age 06 306 72 180 29 9 866 0 1,239
Age 07 308 87 170 28 7 885 0 1,283
Age 08 326 88 177 41 8 924 0 1,338
Age 09 309 82 186 42 13 919 0 1,326
Age 10 308 66 147 40 9 904 0 1,267
Age 11 353 87 157 27 10 1,033 0 1,424
Age 12 348 81 153 23 12 1,013 2 1,379
Age 13 345 78 143 29 13 1,055 2 1,393
Age 14 343 80 145 20 9 1,019 10 1,389
Age 15 328 66 113 18 4 1,056 8 1,377
Age 16 274 67 120 26 6 872 16 1,177
Age 17 207 66 122 22 8 699 21 980
Age 18 58 15 46 6 2 182 3 267
Age 19+ 7 3 13 1 0 19 3 44
Total 4,120 1,009 2,032 377 118 12,210 65 16,987

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.