HELP - Formula to count for specific terms in an entire column except for specified cells

Hi all. First time posting.

Apologies if this question has been asked, I did search for it, but came up with nothing. It's a bit specific, and maybe too out there(?).

As the title says, I am looking for a fomula that will count an entire column for a specific term, but I want to exclude specific cells as well.

The reasoning for this is I have an Excel file that I am regularly adding to, and thought there must be a formula out there that will count the entire column so I don't have to alter the range each time I update. I should also explain the specific term part. Without going into too much detail, I use 0, 1 and 2 to differenciate the entries I am adding. So my formula currently uses this to look for any "0" entries in a range:

=COUNTIF(E13:E783,"0")

So if the range was replaced with the entire E column I would be set... HOWEVER, I need to exclude E1 to E12 as rows 1 to 12 are a frozen (non-scrolling) part of my file. So I need that part excluded.

Hopefully someone can help me!

There are many ways, if you have given a simplified example then what works with that might not work in reality.

=COUNTIF(E:E,0)-COUNTIF(E1:E12,0)

=COUNTIF(E13:E1048576,0)

=COUNTIF(E13:INDEX(E:E,MATCH(1e+100,E:E)),0)

Try to get out of the habit of "0", numbers are not numbers when they are enclosed in double inverted commas. Many formulas will not work correctly when you use "0" instead of 0

Thanks Jason! The first formula didn't work for me, but the second and third did. I've gone with the third.

I think the reason the first one didn't work for me is I have this formula located in column E where it is also referring to itself. I can't see a way to change the entire layout to avoid this.