Impressive UE for Leavers School 2025
This is not a perfect measure – but some great examples of schools making progress for their students – while acknowledging that those near the top have limited scope to increase their numbers.
Maybe these schools have the secret sauce.
| Roll | Number of Leavers | Percentage of Leavers with University Entrance | |||
| Name | 2025 | 2025 | 2023 % | 2024 % | 2025% |
| Kristin School | 1725 | 182 | 84 | 93.4 | 94.8 |
| Hutt International Boys’ School | 330 | 15 | 88.4 | 86 | 92.4 |
| Carmel College | 1070 | 132 | 76.4 | 85 | 91.5 |
| Waikato Diocesan School For Girls | 695 | 111 | 78.8 | 87.4 | 90.5 |
| Scots College | 1137 | 153 | 79.9 | 83.8 | 89.3 |
| St Catherines College (Kilbirnie) | 207 | 41 | 57.5 | 80.5 | 88.6 |
| St Paul’s College (Ponsonby) | 403 | 59 | 66 | 72.9 | 84.1 |
| Auckland Girls’ Grammar School | 1156 | 202 | 67.1 | 73.8 | 83.9 |
| Westlake Girls’ High School | 2310 | 400 | 74.4 | 76.3 | 83 |
| Lindisfarne College | 561 | 71 | 68.8 | 70.4 | 82.8 |
| Sancta Maria College | 1074 | 132 | 74.7 | 80.5 | 82.7 |
| Dilworth School | 482 | 72 | 64.9 | 65.8 | 81.3 |
| McAuley High School | 786 | 146 | 41.9 | 51.7 | 75.5 |
| John McGlashan College | 532 | 71 | 55.6 | 66.2 | 74.1 |
| Middleton Grange School | 1394 | 186 | 65.2 | 54.2 | 73.1 |
| St Thomas of Canterbury College | 703 | 121 | 57.7 | 63.6 | 71.9 |
| Zayed College for Girls | 187 | 23 | 58.8 | 60.9 | 71.4 |
| New Plymouth Girls’ High School | 1314 | 274 | 48.9 | 48.2 | 66.7 |
| Long Bay College | 1893 | 277 | 55.3 | 61.2 | 65.4 |
| Cashmere High School | 2378 | 439 | 55.2 | 57.1 | 63.2 |
| Wellington High School and Com Ed Centre | 1674 | 304 | 51.7 | 54.4 | 60.3 |
| Ormiston Senior College | 1502 | 431 | 49.3 | 47.4 | 59.6 |
| Sacred Heart Girls’ College (Ham) | 932 | 162 | 50.6 | 51.2 | 59.5 |
| Northcote College | 1489 | 280 | 50.4 | 56.2 | 58.4 |
| Green Bay High School | 1852 | 342 | 43.6 | 52.7 | 58.4 |
| Waitaki Girls’ High School | 406 | 80 | 31.7 | 41.2 | 58.3 |
| Taradale High School | 986 | 261 | 36.9 | 38.9 | 55.1 |
| Kelston Girls’ College | 585 | 97 | 24 | 19.4 | 55 |
| Birkenhead College | 521 | 94 | 31 | 44.2 | 53.3 |
| Lynfield College | 1993 | 297 | 38.7 | 45.6 | 51.7 |
| Rutherford College | 1538 | 250 | 29.3 | 32 | 48.1 |
| Aotea College | 1328 | 206 | 29.2 | 42.9 | 45 |
| Dunstan High School | 590 | 113 | 30.8 | 38.8 | 44.7 |
| Kaipara College | 757 | 143 | 32 | 33.6 | 44.4 |
| Marcellin College | 558 | 109 | 33.9 | 37 | 43.4 |
| Avonside Girls’ High School | 1064 | 195 | 32.8 | 38.2 | 43 |
| Pacific Advance Secondary School | 145 | 43 | 12.5 | 33.3 | 42.9 |
| Te Kura Māori o Porirua | 1908 | 169 | 18.8 | 20 | 42.9 |
| New Plymouth Boys’ High School | 1522 | 283 | 27.9 | 36.6 | 42.7 |
| Timaru Girls’ High School | 468 | 93 | 27 | 40 | 42.7 |
| Napier Boys’ High School | 1311 | 233 | 31.8 | 36.8 | 42.5 |
| Palmerston North Boys’ High School | 1802 | 317 | 36 | 35.7 | 42.2 |
| Massey High School | 2035 | 347 | 26.7 | 31.7 | 41.8 |
| Papamoa College | 1790 | 250 | 35.2 | 33.8 | 41.3 |
| Te Kuiti High School | 319 | 55 | 22.6 | 7.5 | 40.7 |
| Waitakere College | 1974 | 317 | 33.7 | 26.4 | 40.5 |
| Cullinane College | 464 | 65 | 31.2 | 21.5 | 38.9 |
| Kaiapoi High School | 1022 | 203 | 25.9 | 26.2 | 38.9 |
| Taieri College | 1225 | 169 | 23 | 28.2 | 37.8 |
| Tauranga Boys’ College | 2212 | 442 | 30.1 | 33.6 | 37.3 |
| Manurewa High School | 2268 | 467 | 19.2 | 28.3 | 37 |
| Kuranui College | 801 | 155 | 28 | 27.7 | 36.9 |
| Chanel College | 314 | 43 | 22.2 | 34.1 | 35.3 |
| Tokoroa High School | 500 | 110 | 10.8 | 27 | 34.8 |
| Waitaki Boys’ High School | 434 | 66 | 17.6 | 16.9 | 34.6 |
| Westland High School | 388 | 51 | 17 | 20 | 31.7 |
| Southern Cross Campus | 1700 | 187 | 10.4 | 13.3 | 26.2 |
| Paeroa College | 356 | 70 | 11.5 | 13.7 | 23 |
| Mairehau High School | 433 | 92 | 7.3 | 14.4 | 20.5 |
For those who want the full data set:
The seventeen sheets cover:
1. Base data by School Number
2. Base data by EQI
3. Listed by Size
4. Listed by L2 NCEA for leavers 2022 – 2025
5. Listed by L3 NCEA for leavers 2020 – 2025
6. Listed by UE for leavers 2018 – 2025
7. Listed by L3 NCEA to UE for leavers gap – 2028 – 2025
8. Listed by student retention until 17yo 2018 – 2025
9. Listed by Progression to L7+ degree study 2019 – 2024
10. Listed by UE results in EQI 10ths – 2021 – 2025
11. Listed by UE results with EQI coded – 2021 – 2025 (highlighted those doing well from higher EQI situations)
12. STATE only: Listed by UE results with EQI coded – 2021 – 2025
13. National Measures – Attendance & UE Means by EQI 10ths (2022 – 2025)
14. Broad Sector Measures – Overall, Ethnicity, Gender, School Governance, School Type, Geographical Area.
15. Boys’ School Groups (Super 8, South Island) – UE and Retention 2024 – 2025.
16. UE Data for 59 Impressive Improvers – 2023 – 2025.
17. Data Summary and Goal Setting Sheet for Schools to Use.
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