Tararua District

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 for other territorial authorities in this region by using the drop down menu above. For territorial authorities in other regions 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 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 34 34 41 36 48 36 51.4 58.5 46.8
Male 61 40 50 29 32 36 32.2 44.4 41.9
Māori 42 42 33 22 28 25 34.4 40.0 43.1
Pacific x x x x x x x x x
Asian 3 x 2 2 x 4 40.0 x 66.7
MELAA x 0 0 x 0 0 x na na
Other 0 0 x 0 0 x na na x
European/Pākehā 55 46 68 45 60 54 45.0 56.6 44.3
Territorial Total 95 74 91 65 80 72 40.6 51.9 44.2
New Zealand Total 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. 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.