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Kia ora Lewis,
 
Thank you for your request.
 
The Ministry will consider your request in accordance with the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act).
 
Under section 15(1) of the Act, we are required to make and inform you of
our decision on your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any
case not later than 20 working days after the day on which your request is
received. You can therefore expect to receive our decision on your request
on or before 18 December 2025. If more than 20 working days are needed due
to the potential workload and/or consultations involved in answering your
request, we will notify you accordingly.
 
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request five days after you have received it. Any personal information
will be removed.
 
In the interim, if you have any questions about your request, please email
[1][email address]
 
Ngā mihi,
 
Enquiries National Team | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga | Ministry of
Education | PN education.govt.nz
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lewis T <[2][FOI #32939 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2025 2:11 pm
To: Enquiries National <[3][email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Every day matters reports
 
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Dear Ministry of Education,
 
I request the school-level attendance data used to generate the "Every Day
Matters" reports for every school in New Zealand for the two most recent
available Terms
 
Primary Request:
A spreadsheet (CSV or Excel) containing the following fields for every
individual school:
 
School ID and Name.
Attendance Category percentages: (Regular, Irregular, Moderate, Chronic).
Absence Reason breakdown percentages: (Unexplained/Trivial,
Illness/Medical, Explained/Approved, Accepted/Unjustified, Holiday).
"On time to class" percentage.
 
Alternative Request (to avoid refusal):
If a specific dataset matching the exact fields above does not exist,
please provide the underlying raw data set(s) used to populate the "Every
Day Matters" reports.
I understand this data is held within your systems to auto-generate the
PDF reports. I am requesting the source data feed for these reports.
 
Yours faithfully,
 
Lewis T
 
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[IN-CONFIDENCE - RELEASE EXTERNAL]

Kia ora Lewis T,

 

Reference: GEMS-45898

 

Thank you for your email of 20 November 2025 to the Ministry of Education
(the Ministry) requesting school level attendance data as below.

 

Your request has been considered under the Official Information Act 1982
(the Act).

 

Schools provide attendance data to the Ministry on the basis that it is
not released publicly at an identifying school level. We consider it is in
the greater public interest that the Ministry maintains this level of
trust with schools to ensure the continued supply of similar information.

 

As a result, we are refusing your request under section 18(a) of the Act,
as by virtue of section 9(2)(ba)(ii) of the Act, there is good reason for
withholding the information to protect information which is subject to an
obligation of confidence, where the making available of the information
would be likely otherwise to damage the public interest.

 

As required under section 9(1) of the Act, we have considered the public
interest in releasing the information withheld. We do not consider that
the public interest considerations favouring the release of this
information are sufficient to outweigh the need to withhold it at this
time.

 

Please note that the Ministry regularly publishes school attendance data
broken down by region, gender, school type and ethnicity in a searchable
format on the Education Counts website here:
[1]https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/stat....

 

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 [2][email address] or to
Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143.

 

Nāku noa, nā,

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-----Original Message-----

From: Lewis T <[5][FOI #32939 email]>

Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2025 2:11 pm

To: Enquiries National <[6][email address]>

Subject: Official Information request - Every day matters reports

 

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[7][FOI #32939 email]. Learn why this is
important at [8]https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentific... ]

 

Dear Ministry of Education,

 

I request the school-level attendance data used to generate the "Every Day
Matters" reports for every school in New Zealand for the two most recent
available Terms

 

Primary Request:

A spreadsheet (CSV or Excel) containing the following fields for every
individual school:

 

School ID and Name.

Attendance Category percentages: (Regular, Irregular, Moderate, Chronic).

Absence Reason breakdown percentages: (Unexplained/Trivial,
Illness/Medical, Explained/Approved, Accepted/Unjustified, Holiday).

"On time to class" percentage.

 

Alternative Request (to avoid refusal):

If a specific dataset matching the exact fields above does not exist,
please provide the underlying raw data set(s) used to populate the "Every
Day Matters" reports.

I understand this data is held within your systems to auto-generate the
PDF reports. I am requesting the source data feed for these reports.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Lewis T

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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