---
id: "za_emis_number"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["education"]
country: ["ZA"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 70
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/za_emis_number"
---

# South African EMIS school number (`za_emis_number`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Nine-digit number of a school in the Education Management Information System (EMIS) of South Africa's provincial education departments.

- Parent datatype: `id`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Education (education)
- Countries: South Africa (ZA)
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{9}$
```

## Examples

- `700400412` — Gauteng school
- `700310045` — Gauteng school
- `70040041` (invalid example) — Eight digits

## Metacrafter rules

1 rules: 0 match the field name, 1 match values.

- `zaemisnumbervalue` (data, `za/za_education.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Quality

Score 70/100. Missing: source link, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/za_emis_number.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/ZA/education/za_emis_number.yaml>