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Aorere College

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School Qualifications: NCEA Level 3

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.

Identical information is available for the school’s Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako through the Communities of Learning page: West Papatoetoe Community of Learning.

Table 1: School leavers with at least NCEA level 3 or equivalent by gender and ethnic group (2018-2020)
Group Below NCEA level 3 NCEA level 3 or above Percentage with NCEA
level 3 or above
2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020
Female 96 88 63 73 81 92 43.2 47.9 59.4
Male 109 103 79 74 70 90 40.4 40.5 53.3
Māori 55 57 34 25 19 26 31.3 25.0 43.3
Pacific 123 120 115 88 95 108 41.7 44.2 48.4
Asian 41 25 10 38 42 63 48.1 62.7 86.3
MELAA x x x x x x x x x
Other x x x x x x x x x
European/Pākehā 15 17 10 24 9 10 61.5 34.6 50.0
Total 205 191 142 147 151 182 41.8 44.2 56.2

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 3 data (2018-2020)
Comparison group Below NCEA level 3 NCEA level 3 or above Percentage with NCEA
level 3 or above
2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020
Aorere College 205 191 142 147 151 182 41.8 44.2 56.2
Auckland Region 7,206 6,845 5,619 12,677 12,313 13,643 63.8 64.3 70.8
Secondary (Year 9-15) 19,573 19,164 17,132 24,575 23,890 25,958 55.7 55.5 60.2
State 24,548 24,332 22,420 25,680 25,249 27,533 51.1 50.9 55.1
Decile 02 1,784 1,717 1,520 1,333 1,291 1,362 42.8 42.9 47.3
New Zealand 27,463 26,975 24,697 33,574 33,028 35,632 55.0 55.0 59.1

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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