Some principals say they are surprised by a spike in enrolments of new migrant students - many of whom do not speak English.
It's putting unique pressure on schools, now faced with teaching English from scratch to large numbers of students.
In the past financial year, Immigration New Zealand approved 16,899 study visas for dependent children of people with work visas.
That's a 70 percent jump than before the pandemic.
President of the Auckland Secondary Principals Association and Orewa College Principal Greg Pierce spoke to Corin Dann.
