Dunedin City

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 (2022-2024)
Group Below NCEA level 3 NCEA level 3 or above Percentage with NCEA level 3 or above
2022 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024
Female 219 218 251 501 484 540 69.6 68.9 68.3
Male 371 367 309 451 404 505 54.9 52.4 62.0
Māori 125 127 133 126 106 150 50.2 45.5 53.0
Pacific 54 41 44 49 49 53 47.6 54.4 54.6
Asian 14 29 23 96 95 129 87.3 76.6 84.9
MELAA 17 21 13 23 26 33 57.5 55.3 71.7
Other 7 5 3 13 9 15 65.0 64.3 83.3
European/Pākehā 474 467 462 783 733 837 62.3 61.1 64.4
Territorial Total 590 585 560 952 888 1,045 61.7 60.3 65.1
New Zealand Total 30,204 30,328 30,014 34,019 33,975 37,397 53.0 52.8 55.5

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. 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.