New Zealand schools with an organisational affiliation

By affiliation, as at July 2025, number of schools

The following information applies to all values in the table. Year as at 1 July: 2025, Affiliation type: Organisational Affiliation
School affiliation	Number of schools
Rudolf Steiner	12
Trust	3
Māori Trusts	6
Montessori	7

Notes

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.

Data calculation/treatment

Figures are as at 1 July.

Changes to data collection/processing

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

Data provided by

Ministry of Education

Dataset name

Number of Schools: Time Series Data for Trend Analysis 2025

Webpage:

http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/schooling/number-of-schools

How to find the data

At URL provided, select 'Time Series Data for Trend Analysis 1996-2025' from the 'Time Series Data' section.
Figure.NZ edited the file for processing purposes.

Import & extraction details

File as imported: Number of Schools: Time Series Data for Trend Analysis 2025

From the dataset Number of Schools: Time Series Data for Trend Analysis 2025, this data was extracted:

Sheet: Affiliation
Range: C4:AF34
Provided: 900 data points

This data forms the table Schooling - Number of schools by school affiliation 1996–2025.

Dataset originally released on:

November 2025

About this dataset

This dataset provides time series data on the number of state, state-integrated and private schools in New Zealand.

New Zealand schools with an organisational affiliation

By affiliation, as at July 2025, number of schools

About this data

Related Content