Welcome to Schooled.
We provide admin, board and governance support services to the education sector and the non-profit sector by taking the hassle out of essential tasks so that your team can focus on what only they can deliver for you.
We started out providing accounting services to schools, and over time this has grown into a wider range of financial services, including management reporting, annual financial reports, payables processing, GST returns, payroll support and advice and consulting.
Election support is another big part of what we do… We are the largest provider of online election support for school board elections in NZ, and the 2025 triennial elections were our biggest yet! We supported almost 1000 schools, running over 1600 elections, over 8000 candidates and over 750000 registered voters all within a three-week window. We are also able to manage elections for non-school organisations, paper-based or online, and work with the timelines and regulations your organisation has. No election is too big or too small.
We are a registered charity, and our focus is on supporting the education sector, with our profits returned to the education sector through the CES Foundation. Working with Schooled supports education and moving our children forward.
School isn’t just in our name, its in our DNA.
Our history goes back over 36 years, all the way back to 1989 (the same year the original Batman movie, Honey, I shrunk the kids, and When Harry met Sally… were released and The B-52’s Love Shack, Fine Young Cannibals She drives me crazy and Public Enemy’s Fight the power were blearing from our radios!).
The Tomorrows Schools reforms came into effect in New Zealand on 1 October 1989 which decentralised much of the administration and governance of all state schools for the first time. Things such as accounting, governance, employment of teachers etc moved from the Education Board to individual school Boards of Trustees. A number of Canterbury schools decided to set up a non-profit cooperative organisation to provide accounting services for them and other local schools, and Canterbury Education Services Society Limited (CES) was born.
Since then we have grown and changed to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients. Our name may have changed from CES to Schooled in 2024, but the people we work with and our dedication to education in Aotearoa hasnt.