Canterbury 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 (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 228 255 271 3,212 3,244 3,151 93.4 92.7 92.1
Male 432 505 470 3,319 3,201 3,308 88.5 86.4 87.6
Māori 227 256 252 825 830 850 78.4 76.4 77.1
Pacific 69 80 74 278 308 309 80.1 79.4 80.7
Asian 34 45 29 589 648 658 94.5 93.5 95.8
MELAA 10 10 5 107 104 118 91.5 91.2 95.9
Other 1 3 6 19 19 24 95.0 86.4 80.0
European/Pākehā 425 486 495 5,332 5,197 5,198 92.6 91.4 91.3
Region Total 660 760 741 6,531 6,445 6,459 90.8 89.5 89.7
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.