Northland schools are expected to be deeply impacted by the release of new decile rankings.
Northland is once again behind with 85 percent of schools ranking as decile one to five, a three percent rise from 2007.
Tai Tokerau Principals Association President Pat Newman says while his school will get more funding, he knows others which aren't so lucky.
"I'm aware of other smaller schools that have lost over fifty thousand in funding because there a lot more families in low socio-economics who are out in New Zealand, which is an indictment on our system," he says.
Mr Newman says those schools losing funding will have to reevaluate which essential programmes they'll need to cut.
He says the schools which have gone up a decile aren't any less poor, it just means poverty is more spread out in the rest of the country.
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