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  • ECE, Schooling

    Traumatic incidents

    Statistics on number of Ministry responses to traumatic incidents.

    Updated: September 2024
  • Schooling

    Transient students

    This measure includes all students recognised as moving school twice or more between 1st of March to the 1st November each year.

    Updated: December 2025
  • Schooling

    Teacher turnover

    Teacher turnover looks at the rate at which teachers are leaving and being replenished within schools.

    Updated: May 2026
  • Schooling

    Teacher numbers

    Demographic information on teachers in state and state integrated schools.

    Updated: May 2026
  • Schooling

    Stand-downs, suspensions, exclusions, expulsions

    This page provides statistics on the numbers and rates of stand-downs, suspensions, exclusions and expulsions from school.

    Updated: December 2025
  • Schooling

    School subject enrolment

    This page provides links to data on subjects being studied by secondary school students, and on language learning (other than English or Te Reo Māo…

    Updated: December 2025
  • Schooling

    School rolls

    The Ministry of Education carries out statistical collections (roll returns) from New Zealand schools at different times during the year.

    …

    Updated: October 2025
  • Schooling

    School leavers' attainment

    This is a comprehensive measure that includes all New Zealand secondary students at a distinct point of time in every student’s schooling life, nam…

    Updated: August 2025
  • Schooling

    School donations

    Where schools and kura request donations, it is their responsibility to ensure the voluntary nature of these requests is clear to their parent co…

    Updated: July 2024
  • Schooling

    School boards

    School boards are locally elected boards that govern state and state integrated schools. Boards establish a strategic plan and an annual implementa…

    Updated: August 2023
  • Schooling

    School board representation

    This measure outlines the number of school boards where representation of Māori or Pacific parents is proportional to the student population. Repre…

    Updated: August 2023
  • Schooling

    Per student funding for schools

    Per student funding is a measure of adequacy of government funding. Per student funding is calculated as the sum of operational grant and teacher s…

    Updated: December 2023
  • Schooling

    Pathways from Year 11

    Pathways from Year 11 – to Level 2 certificate or above (abbreviated to Pathways from Year 11) is a secondary attainment measure (with school leave…

    Updated: May 2026
  • Schooling

    Pacific language in schooling

    This report provides a snapshot of Pacific language in education in New Zealand schools as at 1 July. It describes two categories of Pacific lang…

    Updated: February 2026
  • Schooling

    Ongoing Resourcing Scheme (ORS)

    Statistics on number of students involved with the Ongoing Resourcing Scheme (ORS).

    Updated: November 2025
  • Schooling

    Number of schools

    Data on the number of schools in New Zealand, by school type, as at 1 July.

    Updated: October 2025
  • Schooling

    National school roll projections

    This page presents results of 10-year projections from the 2025 National School Roll Projections (NSRP). These projections estimate the number of f…

    Updated: April 2026
  • Schooling

    Māori language in schooling

    This report provides a snapshot of Māori Language Learning in the schooling sector as at 1 July. It reports on three categories of Māori Language i…

    Updated: October 2025
  • ECE

    Language use in ECE

    Statistics on language use in ECE services.

    Updated: February 2026
  • Schooling

    Homeschooling

    This page provides links to data on homeschooling.

    Updated: December 2025
  • Schooling

    Funding to schools

    The Ministry provides funding for schools by way of operational funding, salary funding for teachers, and property funding.

    Updated: September 2025
  • Schooling

    Entering and leaving teaching

    The data on this page looks at teachers who move into or out of our schooling teacher workforce each year in state and state-integrated schools.

    Updated: May 2026
  • ECE

    ECE staffing

    Statistics on staffing in the ECE sector, including tables on numbers and characteristics of ECE teachers.

    Updated: June 2026
  • ECE

    ECE services

    Statistics on providers of ECE, including tables on the number and types of ECE services, and information on waiting times.

    Updated: December 2025
  • ECE

    ECE finances

    Statistics on expenditure on ECE, including tables on government expenditure on ECE, and tables on the Consumers Price Index for the fees charged b…

    Updated: April 2025
  • Schooling

    Early leaving exemptions

    This page provides statistics on 15-year-old students (excluding international fee-paying students) enrolled in school who obtain an early leaving …

    Updated: December 2025
  • ECE

    Early learning participation

    This index page provides statistics on children's participation in early learning including tables on prior participation rates of children startin…

    Updated: May 2026
  • Schooling

    Daily attendance dashboard

    This page contains information on the numbers of students attending school each day.

    Updated: Daily
  • Schooling

    Attendance

    This page provides statistics on regular attendance and reasons for student absence. Attendance statistics are from state and state integrated scho…

    Updated: May 2026
  • Schooling

    Attainment of 18-year-olds

    This measure includes all New Zealand secondary students who attended a New Zealand school after their 15th birthday. The measure reports on the nu…

    Updated: September 2023
  • Schooling

    Annual monitoring of Reading Recovery

    This page presents data from state and state-integrated schools that offered Reading Recovery and the students who received support.

    Updated: July 2025
  • ECE, Schooling

    Action Plan for Pacific Education measurement framework data

    This page provides a quick reference for up-to-date numbers in the measurement framework for progress against the Action Plan for Pacific Education…

    Updated: May 2026
  • Tertiary

    19 - Staffing

    Statistics relating to the staffing of tertiary education in New Zealand.

    Updated: April 2025
  • Tertiary

    18 - University rankings fact sheets

    The latest results for New Zealand universities in four of the most closely followed ranking systems. These fact sheets are updated after the relea…

    Updated: March 2026
  • Tertiary

    17 – Micro-credentials and training schemes

    Statistics on enrolments in micro-credentials and training schemes in tertiary education.

    Updated: September 2025
  • Tertiary

    16 - International students in New Zealand

    Statistics in this section include the numbers of international students studying in New Zealand, international students’ progression through the N…

    Updated: May 2025
  • Tertiary

    15 - Tertiary research

    Research performance and research funding in the New Zealand tertiary education system.

    Updated: November 2025
  • Tertiary

    14 - Tertiary population data

    Interactive graphs showing demographic breakdowns of domestic tertiary education participation rates and student numbers.

    Updated: October 2025
  • Tertiary

    13 - First-year Fees Free tertiary education

    Statistics relating to tertiary education funded through the first-year Fees Free policy, including demographic data, student loan borrowing, cours…

    Updated: October 2025
  • Tertiary

    12 - Apprenticeship Boost

    Demographic and other statistics of accumulated Apprenticeship Boost Initiative verified learners.

    Updated: April 2026
  • Tertiary

    11 - Initial teacher education statistics

    This initial teacher education (ITE) statistics page gives an overview of trends in the number of students enrolling in and completing initial teac…

    Updated: May 2026
  • Tertiary

    10 - School leaver pathways

    What happens to school leavers?

    Updated: October 2025
  • Tertiary

    09 - Financial support for tertiary students

    The latest statistics relating to financial support for students including student loans, allowances and scholarships.

    Updated: December 2025
  • Tertiary

    08 - Tertiary enrolments in Te Reo Māori language courses, a…

    Latest statistics related to enrolments in language courses and Te Reo Māori.

    Updated: April 2026
  • Tertiary

    07 - Financial resourcing of tertiary education

    Statistics relating to the funding and resourcing of tertiary education in New Zealand, including tuition subsidies and tuition fees.

    Updated: August 2024
  • Tertiary

    06 - Beyond study

    The impacts of education beyond study including jobs and earnings, income and wealth, health and other social and economic wellbeing outcomes.

    Updated: March 2026
  • Tertiary

    05 - Vocational education & training

    These tables present counts relating to Vocational Education Training (VET) programmes in the New Zealand tertiary education sector.

    Updated: September 2025
  • Tertiary

    04 - NZ's workplace-based learners

    An overview of workplace-based learning trends for the year ended December 2025.

    Updated: May 2026
  • Tertiary

    03 - Tertiary achievement and attainment

    Statistics relating to attainment, attrition, retention and completion of students at tertiary education providers and through industry training.

    Updated: January 2026
  • Tertiary

    02 - Tertiary participation

    Participation in tertiary education in New Zealand.

    Updated: May 2026
  • Tertiary

    01 - Tertiary summary tables

    Latest statistics related to participation in tertiary education for providers. Other information on providers can be found elsewhere in tertiary s…

    Updated: August 2025
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