Palmerston North City

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 05 321 96 258 33 2 570 0 1,016
Age 06 362 95 246 34 9 668 2 1,124
Age 07 368 106 296 43 8 706 0 1,232
Age 08 358 116 239 36 5 687 0 1,175
Age 09 320 127 256 43 7 683 0 1,161
Age 10 348 122 256 45 9 726 0 1,224
Age 11 352 131 256 41 22 778 1 1,267
Age 12 389 114 234 40 25 780 1 1,228
Age 13 426 158 231 45 21 894 4 1,360
Age 14 460 158 222 33 9 978 9 1,440
Age 15 387 127 192 39 19 930 25 1,338
Age 16 308 138 199 23 16 826 44 1,240
Age 17 296 86 148 27 16 720 40 1,076
Age 18 35 21 66 4 2 116 12 223
Age 19+ 16 4 15 0 1 21 4 54
Total 4,746 1,599 3,114 486 171 10,083 142 16,158

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.