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Awatapu College

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School Qualifications: NCEA Level 2

A formal school qualification is a measure of the extent to which young adults have completed a basic prerequisite for higher education and training, and many entry-level jobs.

School leavers are identified from the Ministry of Education’s ENROL system, while highest school qualification is obtained from schools and the New Zealand Qualifications Authority. Data presented here is for school leavers with NCEA Level 1 and above, level 2 and above and level 3 and above (including a UE Award).

Identical information is available by regional council  and territorial local authority through the Know Your Region pages.

Alternatively a large amount of school leaver data is available from our statistical pages. See School Leavers.

Table 1: School leavers with at least NCEA level 2 or equivalent by gender and ethnic group (2022-2024)
Group Below NCEA level 2 NCEA level 2 or above Percentage with NCEA
level 2 or above
2022 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024
Female 24 33 26 63 60 66 72.4 64.5 71.7
Male 38 39 50 59 59 63 60.8 60.2 55.8
Māori 25 32 37 29 34 32 53.7 51.5 46.4
Pacific 6 8 7 8 7 6 57.1 46.7 46.2
Asian 0 3 7 13 15 15 100.0 83.3 68.2
MELAA 2 x x 4 x x 66.7 x x
Other 0 x x 0 x x na x x
European/Pākehā 41 49 48 89 82 91 68.5 62.6 65.5
Total 62 72 76 122 119 129 66.3 62.3 62.9

Notes:

  1. ‘x’ = data has been suppressed where there are between 0 and 5 students in the denominator for a specific group, for example Asian students. Where one gender has been suppressed the corresponding gender has also been suppressed. 'na' = not applicable.
  2. Ethnicity is multiple response, that is, students who affiliated in more than one ethnic group have been counted in each ethnic group. Students are only counted once in the total, therefore, the ethnic groups may not sum to the total.
  3. International fee-paying and adult students (age 19+) are excluded.
Table 2: Comparison NCEA level 2 data (2022-2024)
Comparison group Below NCEA level 2 NCEA level 2 or above Percentage with NCEA
level 2 or above
2022 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024
Awatapu College 62 72 76 122 119 129 66.3 62.3 62.9
Manawatū-Whanganui Region 779 799 917 2,125 2,156 2,136 73.2 73.0 70.0
Secondary (Year 9-15) 9,816 9,868 9,768 35,159 34,267 36,332 78.2 77.6 78.8
State: Not integrated 14,068 14,349 14,868 39,359 38,931 41,404 73.7 73.1 73.6
New Zealand 15,350 15,763 16,125 48,873 48,540 51,286 76.1 75.5 76.1

Notes:

  1. ‘x’ = data has been suppressed where there are between 0 and 5 students in the denominator for a specific group, for example Asian students. Where one gender has been suppressed the corresponding gender has also been suppressed. 'na' = not applicable.
  2. International fee-paying students and adult students (age 19+) are excluded.
  3. The comparison groups selected are based on the profile of the school at the time of the most recent data collection, rather than the school’s current profile.

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