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Massey High School

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Retention

Completion of upper secondary education is associated with a range of economic and social benefits both in New Zealand and across the OECD. Retention to senior secondary schooling is linked to higher levels of skills and knowledge required for participation in our increasingly knowledge-based society and the wider global community.

The retention data presented here is calculated from school leaver data, that is, it is the age that a school leaver completed their schooling. The Ministry convention is to consider the proportion of students that remain at school until at least their 17th birthday; this is a year after compulsory education and the average age for a student completing their upper secondary qualifications.

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

Alternatively a large amount of retention 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: Te Kāhui Ako o Tiriwā. This school belongs to more than one Community of learning | Kāhui Ako, go to profile and contacts page and follow the links to see information for other Communities of learning | Kāhui Ako.

Table 1: Percentage of school leavers staying at school until at least their 17th birthday (2018-2020)
Group Left before 17th birthday Stayed until at least 17th birthday Percentage staying until at least 17th birthday
2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020
Female 19 25 22 183 155 152 90.6 86.1 87.4
Male 47 41 32 154 153 158 76.6 78.9 83.2
Māori 36 31 28 73 71 54 67.0 69.6 65.9
Pacific 23 22 18 104 99 100 81.9 81.8 84.7
Asian 7 3 3 55 47 53 88.7 94.0 94.6
MELAA x 0 x x 10 x x 100.0 x
Other x 0 x x 0 x x na x
European/Pākehā 32 34 30 178 170 157 84.8 83.3 84.0
Total 66 66 54 337 308 310 83.6 82.4 85.2

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 students and adult students (age 19+) are excluded.
Table 2: Comparison trend data (2018-2020)
Comparison group Left before 17th birthday Stayed until at least 17th birthday Percentage staying until at least 17th birthday
2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020
Massey High School 66 66 54 337 308 310 83.6 82.4 85.2
Auckland Region 2,500 2,567 2,117 17,383 16,591 17,145 87.4 86.6 89.0
Secondary (Year 9-15) 7,268 7,673 7,153 36,880 35,381 35,937 83.5 82.2 83.4
State 8,883 9,450 9,197 41,345 40,131 40,756 82.3 80.9 81.6
Decile 04 1,180 1,226 1,187 4,530 4,288 4,395 79.3 77.8 78.7
New Zealand 9,869 10,336 9,945 51,168 49,667 50,384 83.8 82.8 83.5

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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