Decile rating

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The decile rating is an evaluation scheme in the education system in New Zealand . This shows which socio-economic group the catchment area of ​​the school belongs to. All schools from elementary to college are assessed.

The scale ranges from 1 to 10. A rating of “1” indicates a particularly poor catchment area, a “10” a very wealthy one. More precisely, the rating shows the percentage of students from communities classified as "socially weak". A decile of 1 means that the school is among the ten percent of schools with the most students from socially disadvantaged communities, a decile of 10 means that the school is among the ten percent of schools with the fewest students from socially disadvantaged communities. However, this assessment does not allow any direct conclusions to be drawn about the actual socio-economic origin of the students in a school. The evaluation is published by the New Zealand Ministry of Education on a website for each school. The data were last revised in 2014.

The data are obtained from the census data collected every five years . The schools provide either all (with fewer than 120 pupils), half (121 to 179 pupils) or a third (180 and more pupils) of the pupils' home addresses, so that the places of residence can be linked to other census data. Only the smallest statistical units (mesh blocks) in which the pupils of a school live are used to determine the decile rating . These are evaluated according to the following criteria:

  1. Household income
  2. Work activity
  3. Number of people in a household per bedroom ("household crowding")
  4. Level of education
  5. Share of recipients of support services

The influence of the five sizes on the decile rating is weighted according to the number of students per mesh block .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ School deciles . Ministry of Education , accessed January 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ 2014 decile recalculation . Ministry of Education , accessed January 14, 2016 .