Palmerston North City

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 01 352 104 273 34 2 610 0 1,087
Year 02 356 96 250 35 10 664 2 1,121
Year 03 361 98 291 42 7 690 0 1,208
Year 04 344 115 241 37 5 690 0 1,171
Year 05 340 134 255 41 7 693 0 1,181
Year 06 334 119 245 44 9 706 0 1,194
Year 07 397 140 288 50 26 877 1 1,417
Year 08 381 127 234 41 24 788 4 1,232
Year 09 441 158 230 40 20 924 3 1,394
Year 10 456 147 249 31 13 962 18 1,451
Year 11 383 139 181 42 13 925 36 1,348
Year 12 316 130 205 24 19 841 54 1,270
Year 13+ 285 92 172 25 16 713 24 1,084
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.