13/08/2025 
Mohammed Khan 
[FYI request #31616 email] 
Tēnā koe Mohammed 
OIA: 1351143 – Numbers enrolled at each charter school  
Thank you for your email of 16 July 2025 to the Charter School Agency (the CSA) requesting the 
following information:  
Please disclose the numbers enrolled at each of the publicly funded charter schools that 
Tim Jago's associate David Seymour has had set up. 
IF this is not possible, please disclose the address of each school so that journalists can 
park up outside on the public road and do a head count of students entering. 
Your request has been considered under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act).  
In response to your request, as at the July 2025 roll return, there were 287 students enrolled 
across the seven charter schools that opened in Term 1 2025.  
At this point in time, the CSA does not intend to release the numbers of students currently enrolled 
at each individual school during the crucial establishment phase because this could undermine 
their commercial position and their efforts to build their roll and deliver quality education. 
I am therefore withholding the per school enrolment breakdown under section 9(2)(b)(ii) of the Act, 
to protect information where the making available of the information would be likely unreasonably 
to prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the 
information.  
As required under section 9(1) of the Act, I have considered the public interest in releasing the 
information withheld. I do not consider the public interest considerations favouring the release of 
this information are sufficient to outweigh the need to withhold it at this time. 
The address for each charter school is published on their respective websites, which can be 
accessed via the following link: 
https://www.charterschools.govt.nz/our-schools/  
Charter School Agency, 1 The Terrace, Mezzanine floor, Wellington 6011 
PO Box 1666, Wellington 6140 Phone: +64 4 463 8000 Fax: +64 4 463 8001 
charterschools.govt.nz 

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I am therefore refusing this aspect of your request under section 18(d) of the Act, as the 
information is publicly available.  
Thank you again for your email. You have the right to ask an Ombudsman to review my decision 
on your request, in accordance with section 28 of the Act. You can do this by writing to 
[email address] or to Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143. 
Nāku noa, nā 
 
 
 
 
 
Juliette Hayes 
Head of Performance and Monitoring 
Charter School Agency 
 
 
 
 
 
OIA: 1351143 
charterschools.govt.nz 

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