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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 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 ethnic group and gender, as at 1 July (2021 to 2025)
Group 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Māori 44,768 43,872 44,334 44,798 45,134
Pacific 66,754 66,309 67,695 69,206 69,724
Asian 76,587 79,364 87,393 98,169 104,331
MELAA 11,627 11,471 12,167 12,665 12,951
Other 2,474 2,655 2,952 3,157 3,422
European/Pākehā 123,953 120,840 119,837 118,026 115,816
International 3,223 1,790 3,018 3,984 4,883
Female 137,392 134,888 138,783 143,683 145,665
Male 144,251 141,446 145,503 150,347 152,351
Another gender/not stated n/a n/a 192 189 163
Total 281,643 276,334 284,478 294,219 298,179

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.
  3. 'n/a' = not applicable as Another gender/not stated was not collected prior to 2023.
  4. 'x' = less than 5 students in Another gender/not stated, or if left unmasked the data may lead to deducing other masked values.

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