Northland Region

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 for the region's territorial authorities using the drop down menu above. For other territorial authorities first choose the appropriate region from the drop down menu above. 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 (2017-2019)
Group Below NCEA level 1 NCEA level 1 or above Percentage with NCEA level 1 or above
2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019
Female 139 122 144 993 932 901 87.7 88.4 86.2
Male 177 163 178 964 938 882 84.5 85.2 83.2
Māori 234 198 235 963 928 858 80.5 82.4 78.5
Pacific 16 21 18 84 91 93 84.0 81.3 83.8
Asian 5 4 3 57 55 61 91.9 93.2 95.3
MELAA 3 1 2 17 25 15 85.0 96.2 88.2
Other 0 1 2 17 7 10 100.0 87.5 83.3
European/Pākehā 99 116 126 1,113 1,053 1,083 91.8 90.1 89.6
Region Total 316 285 322 1,957 1,870 1,783 86.1 86.8 84.7
New Zealand Total 6,289 6,468 7,480 56,366 54,829 54,226 90.0 89.4 87.9

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 students and adult students (age 19+) are excluded.