There are 839 schools in Aotearoa still burning fossil fuels on campus . That's about a third of all primary and secondary schools in the country.
Only 68 schools have switched their polluting boilers for renewable fuels or other sources of heating . And only about two dozen of those have transitioned to renewables in the last decade. There usually are hefty costs involved in transitioning, and many schools haven’t been able to access funding.
About 30 have secured government support to transition . The sluggish pace of transition is at odds with the Government's target to make the public sector carbon neutral by 2025.
Explore the database yourself and check if your school is, according to the ministry, still waiting to receive funding to transition.
CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this interactive, most private schools were listed as not burning fossil fuels. In fact, there was no data on private schools at the point of publication. Those schools are now mostly described as "no data is available". Stuff has retrospectively requested data from all private schools and will add it if and when it comes to hand. (Amended 10:30am January 20, 2022)