Property maintenance grant funding

Schools and kura receive a property maintenance grant (PMG) to pay for building and facility maintenance. It’s generally used for work that’s cyclical or unforeseen.

The grant can be used for general maintenance like painting and ground maintenance. It should not be used for caretaker wages.

All schools and kura with Crown-owned property will receive property maintenance funding for that property.

Property that is privately owned, owned by a community group, or paid for by the school board is not funded by the grant.

Property ownership is recorded in the K2 system.

We calculate your PMG based on the:

• gross area – which is the external footprint of a Crown-owned building or the integrated area
• square metres of painted exterior walls
• cubic capacity of swimming pools we own, or that are integrated
• the 'corrosion factor' for schools in areas where buildings are subject to very high corrosion from extreme weather and salt spray (we provide a top-up for these schools to carry out the more frequent maintenance needed)
• the 'isolation factor', which is linked to the isolation index used in operational funding (it’s an adjustment for schools in isolated areas that have extra costs due to their remoteness).

We calculate funding for your land up to a maximum size. This is:

• 2.5 hectares for primary schools
• 4 hectares for intermediate schools
• 8 hectares for secondary schools, and
• 6 hectares for composite schools.

The funding your school gets is not affected by the size of the school roll. 

You can view the allocated amount for your school on the property portal.

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Payments are made quarterly through the usual operational grant payment processes.