23 Apr 2019

Auckland schools overcrowded with out-of-zone students

From Morning Report, 7:24 am on 23 April 2019

Many Auckland schools are making their over-crowding problems worse by enrolling children from other neighbourhoods. Education Ministry figures show Auckland was the only region where enrolments at more than half the schools exceeded 89 percent of their classroom capacity in July last year. Most of those 263 schools were taking out-of-zone students and many were doing so even though they had more students than ministry-provided classrooms should take. Here's our education correspondent, John Gerritsen.