Te Kura o Tititea Mount Aspiring College (MAC) students achieved outstanding 2022 NCEA results despite ongoing disruptions due to Covid-19, principal Nicola Jacobsen says.

NCEA (National Certificate of Educational Achievement) are national qualifications for secondary school students in years 11-13 and early last week more than 160,000 students from around New Zealand received their results for the past school year. 

Eighty-eight percent of MAC students passed NCEA level one (50 percent of them with a merit or excellence endorsement); 86 percent passed NCEA level two (36 percent with an endorsement); and 89 percent passed NCEA level three (43 percent with an endorsement).

Seventy-three percent of applicable students qualified for entrance to university.

“Last year was an incredibly challenging and disruptive year for our community,” Nicola said. 

“These results are a testament to the hard work and perseverance of our students and the support of our students’ family, whānau and teachers.”

A comparison of MAC’s results with similar schools is not yet available for 2022 but the local results are similar to those in 2021, when the results were well above national standards and those of other decile 8-10 schools.

In 2021 89 percent of MAC students passed NCEA level one; 90 percent passed level two; and 88 percent passed level three.

MAC deputy principal Vicki Ashton, who is responsible for curriculum development and NCEA at the school, said that students had coped really well with another year of change.

“Throughout the uncertainty of last year, we have been able to offer a wider range of learning programmes which helped our students find what they are passionate about and engage with their learning,” she said.

“Their engagement in their learning is reflected in these excellent results.”

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