• Time Series Data for Trend Analysis 1996-2023[MS Excel 98kB]
• Student Rolls by School 2010-2023[MS Excel 14mB]
• Student Rolls by School 2000-2009[MS Excel 9.4mB]

• Roll by Funding Year Level and Student Type 2000-2023[MS Excel 9.5mB]

• Roll by Age and Total Response Ethnicity 2018-2023[MS Excel 7.5mB]
• Roll by Funding Year Level and Total Response Ethnicity 2019-2023[MS Excel 6.6mB]

• Roll by Age and Ethnicity 2014-2023[MS Excel 9.1mB]
• Roll by Funding Year Level and Ethnicity 2014-2023[MS Excel 8.9mB]

• Machine Readable: Roll by Age and Ethnicity (2014-2023) [Zipped File 3.8mB]
• Machine Readable: Roll by Funding Year Level and Ethnicity (2014-2023) [Zipped File 4.2mB]

Age:
The age (in years) as at 1 July of the student enrolled at the school.

Affiliation:
This dimension is most commonly represented for state integrated schools. The religious or organisational affiliation of schools, for example, Roman Catholic, Montessori. Only schools that requested an affiliation are included in that affiliation group.

Authority:
The ownership of the school for example State, State-Integrated and Private.

Decile:
The decile assigned to the school. Students from low socio-economic communities face more barriers to learning than students from high socio-economic communities. Schools that draw their roll from these low socio-economic communities are given greater funding to combat these barriers. The mechanism used to calculate and allocate this additional funding is most often known as school deciles.

Schools are assigned a socio-economic score based on five census derived socio-economic factors. The 10 percent of schools with the lowest scores are considered decile 1 schools, the next 10 percent of schools are considered decile 2 schools, etc. Decile 1 schools have the highest proportion of low SES students.

Decile was replaced with the Equity Index for funding purposes in 2023. 2022 is the last year Decile will be used for reporting purposes.

Education Region:
The education region the school of the student is located in. These are twelve administrative regions created by the Ministry of Education and aligned with the Ministry's ten local offices.

Ethnic Group (Prioritised):
The ethnic group the member belongs to, for example, Māori, Asian. The ethnic group data is presented at level 1 and prioritised in the order of Māori, Pasifika, Asian, MELAA, other groups except European/Pākehā. Prior to 2009, NZAID (MFAT) and FFP students had a combined separate ethnic group. NZAID (MFAT) students are now considered to be domestic and are part of the regular ethnic group counts. International Fee-Paying are a separate ethnic group.

Ethnic Group (Total Response):
The ethnic group the student belongs to, for example, Māori, Asian. The ethnic group data is presented at level 1 and total response. That means students are counted in each level 1 ethnic group they have indicated they belong to. While a student may be represented in more than one ethnic group, they are only counted once in the ethnic group "Total".

Funding Year Level:
Prior to 2008 this was known as Year of Schooling or MOE Year Level. The Funding Year Level measures the number of years of schooling a student has received and provides the Ministry of Education with a method of counting students for funding and staffing purposes. The Funding Year Level for most students is based on the date they first started school. It is independent of the way schools are organised and independent of the particular programme of study that a student may undertake.

Regional Council:
The regional council area the school of the student is located in. Regional council boundaries are defined by Statistics New Zealand.

School Gender:
The gender(s) a school caters to, for example co-educational or boys school.

School Type:
The type of the school, for example, primary school, composite school, secondary school.

Sector:
Schools are grouped (by school type) into four sectors of schooling education, Primary, Secondary, Composite and Specialist.

Territorial Authority:
The territorial authority area the school of the student is located in. Territorial authority boundaries are defined by Statistics New Zealand. We have subdivided the Auckland Supercity territorial authority into smaller wards to give more detailed information of the area.

Student Types:

Regular Student:
A domestic student, who is aged less than 19 years at 1 January of the roll count year. Includes; students in general classrooms and those in special needs units. Excludes; international fee-paying students, NZAID-funded students (prior to 2009), alternative education students and adult students. This classification is used by the Ministry for funding purposes.

IFP:
An international student (prior to 2009 these were Foreign Fee Paying students) who meets the full tuition costs on their own or from funds provided to them by sponsors other than the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

NZAID Funded Student:
New Zealand Agency for International Development funded student. A student on a scholarship from the New Zealand Agency for International Development. Prior to 2004 this was known as a MFAT scholarship. As of 2009 these students are now part of the domestic count and not included in international fee paying student totals.

Alternative Education Student:
A young person aged between thirteen and a half and sixteen years of age who has become alienated from the education system. As they are either unwilling to attend a regular school or schools are unwilling to enrol them in a mainstream setting they attend an Alternative Education Programme.

Adult Student:
A domestic student who has continued at a school and is aged 19 years or over on 1 January of the roll count year.