A leap within the variety of teenagers leaving faculty with no formal {qualifications} has continued.
Training Ministry figures present 15% of final 12 months’s faculty leavers had no NCEA certificates or equal qualification — the identical determine because the earlier two years and worse than the pre-Covid determine of 10-11%.
It means 10,473 teenagers left faculty in 2025 with no NCEA certificates or different qualification.
At faculties within the poorest neighbourhoods greater than 1 / 4 of leavers had nothing.
The figures confirmed 78% of final 12 months’s leavers had at the very least NCEA stage two (a one share level enhance), and 59% had stage three (up three share factors).
The proportion of Māori and Pacific leavers with stage two elevated barely to 63% and 74% respectively.
The proportion of Māori and Pacific leavers with at the very least stage three elevated three share factors to 41% and 53% respectively.
The figures confirmed 18% of final 12 months’s leavers didn’t meet the NCEA literacy and numeracy co-requisite.
Although 85% met the literacy requirement and 85% met the numeracy requirement, solely 82% met each.
At faculties going through the very best ranges of socio-economic drawback 73% met the numeracy requirement and 74% the literacy however solely 68% met each.
