Catholic schools top Taranaki results

Tuesday, August 13th, 2013

For the first time the New Zealand Qualifications Authority has collated and publicly released NCEA results for all secondary schools, giving a snapshot of how they performed in exams last year.

Of the 14 secondary schools in Taranaki only five were above the national average for the number of students who passed NCEA level 3.

The top girls’ school and the top boys’ school in the region were the two Catholic schools.

Sacred Heart Girls’ College had 95.4 per cent of their year 13 students pass NCEA level 3 and Francis Douglas Memorial College had 82.9 per cent of their students leave with the qualification. Continue reading

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