Whanganui District

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 other territorial authorities in this region by using the drop down menu above.  For territorial authorities in other regions 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 05 235 39 49 14 3 317 0 523
Age 06 252 36 63 11 5 357 0 596
Age 07 301 34 61 8 2 364 0 630
Age 08 250 40 65 9 4 355 0 605
Age 09 264 28 56 9 1 367 0 602
Age 10 247 39 63 10 4 383 0 615
Age 11 235 37 51 13 4 367 0 572
Age 12 277 41 49 12 5 380 0 655
Age 13 260 40 42 10 2 471 7 674
Age 14 288 51 40 6 8 470 8 709
Age 15 263 45 33 6 5 495 12 690
Age 16 208 40 37 6 2 439 34 626
Age 17 164 34 40 4 1 379 21 530
Age 18 13 8 7 5 0 65 4 92
Age 19+ 5 1 2 1 0 12 1 19
Total 3,262 513 658 124 46 5,221 87 8,138

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.