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Student Population: Year level

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 year level and ethnic group, as at 1 July 2025
Funding year
level
Māori Pacific Asian MELAA Other European/
Pākehā
International
students
Total
Year 01 335 44 130 24 8 765 2 1,050
Year 02 337 51 159 25 8 884 4 1,222
Year 03 316 29 120 42 5 810 0 1,117
Year 04 294 41 120 31 4 812 2 1,106
Year 05 335 67 116 37 5 862 4 1,201
Year 06 343 35 131 23 6 877 2 1,203
Year 07 415 59 142 37 11 1,105 5 1,468
Year 08 363 47 123 28 26 860 4 1,226
Year 09 401 47 111 24 20 1,095 2 1,343
Year 10 395 52 106 33 24 1,112 18 1,372
Year 11 398 68 75 23 11 1,019 9 1,273
Year 12 306 53 82 14 14 912 25 1,154
Year 13+ 191 31 74 27 7 686 7 851
Total 4,429 624 1,489 368 149 11,799 84 15,586
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.

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