Boards of Trustees

BOTs are locally elected boards that govern state and state integrated schools. Boards establish a charter which sets out the aims and objectives of the school.

As at 1 December 2018 there were 19,900 boards of trustees members.The data can be viewed by a range of dimensions, based on the individual, their role on the board, the school, and the school's location. Boards of trustees data are available from the following tables:

Pivot Table

This spreadsheet provides the underlying data for most of the one-on-one dimensional tables in the chart below. You can use this spreadshees to create your own multi-dimensional pivot table. (Use of this spreadsheet require MS Excel version 2007 or later).

Time Series Data

This spreadsheet provides time series data in a single table for each of the dimensions shown in the chart below. Each table gives breakdown by member gender or ethnicity and another dimension. All tables cover 1997-2018.

One-on-One Dimension Data

The chart below provides a number of one-on-one dimensional tables relating to Board of Trustees Numbers.

Dimension Ethnic
Group 		Member
Position 		Member
Type 		School
Authority 		School
Decile 		School
Gender 		School
Type
Member Position 1
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Member Type 2
 Spreadsheet 		3
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School Authority 4
 Spreadsheet 		5
 Spreadsheet 		6
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School Decile 7
 Spreadsheet 		8
 Spreadsheet 		9
 Spreadsheet 		10
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School Gender 11
 Spreadsheet 		12
 Spreadsheet 		13
 Spreadsheet 		14
 Spreadsheet 		15
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School Type 16
 Spreadsheet 		17
 Spreadsheet 		18
 Spreadsheet 		19
 Spreadsheet 		20
 Spreadsheet 		21
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Education Region 22
 Spreadsheet 		23
 Spreadsheet 		24
 Spreadsheet 		25
 Spreadsheet 		26
 Spreadsheet 		27
 Spreadsheet 		28
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Regional Council 29
 Spreadsheet 		30
 Spreadsheet 		31
 Spreadsheet 		32
 Spreadsheet 		33
 Spreadsheet 		34
 Spreadsheet 		35
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Territorial Authority36
 Spreadsheet		37
 Spreadsheet		38
 Spreadsheet		39
 Spreadsheet		40
 Spreadsheet		41
 Spreadsheet		42
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School Data Dimension Notes

Gender:
The gender of the member. Where this information is not provided to the Ministry it is recorded as unknown. Every table has gender as a dimension.

Ethnic Group:
The ethnic group the member belongs to, for example, Māori, Asian. The ethnic group data is presented at level 1 and prioritised.

Member Position:
The role the trustee has on the board, for example, chairperson, member, commissioner.

Member Type
The group the member belongs to or represents, for example, parent, staff or student representative, principal, co-opted member.

School Authority
The ownership of the school, for example State, State-integrated.

School Decile
The decile assigned to the school of the member.  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 allow this additional funding is most often known as school deciles.  Schools are assigned a socio-economic score based on five census derived scoio-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 (see technical comments).

School Gender
The type of the school, for example Full Primary (Year 1-8), as at 1 July of that year. Typically based on what year levels the school offers, but also includes further information e.g. Correspondence school, Special school, Teen Parent Unit etc. See "School: Sector" for a broader grouping, and "Student: Year level group" for a student based sector grouping.

School Type
Schools are grouped (by school type) into four sectors of schooling education, Primary, Secondary, Composite and Special. See  "Student: Year level group" for a student based sector grouping.

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

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

Territorial Authority
The territorial authority area the school of the member is located in. Territorial authority boundaries are defined by Statistics New Zealand.

Affiliation
This dimension is only presented for state integrated schools. The religious or organisational affiliation of state integrated schools, for example, Roman Catholic, Montessori.

Year
Data is presented for 1997 through to 2018.