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School Qualifications

School Qualifications: NCEA Level 1

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 school (Find Your Nearest School), as well as regional council and territorial authority (Know Your Region).

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

School leavers with at least NCEA level 1 or equivalent by gender and ethnic group (2018-2020)
Group Below NCEA level 1 NCEA level 1 or above Percentage with NCEA level 1 or above
2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020
Female 23 32 26 255 239 263 91.7 88.2 91.0
Male 64 55 73 414 361 352 86.6 86.8 82.8
Māori 40 48 56 176 158 153 81.5 76.7 73.2
Pacific 8 7 6 31 25 37 79.5 78.1 86.0
Asian 3 6 3 35 42 65 92.1 87.5 95.6
MELAA 0 x x 0 x x na x x
Other 0 x x 0 x x na x x
European/Pākehā 43 41 52 475 422 430 91.7 91.1 89.2
CoL Total 87 87 99 669 600 615 88.5 87.3 86.1
New Zealand Total 6,355 7,030 7,003 54,682 52,973 53,326 89.6 88.3 88.4

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.

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