Taitokerau Education Trust helps low decile students outperform higher decile schools

Monday, June 18th, 2018

Students in the Te Puawai cluster – which includes Manaia View School, Whau Valley Primary, Te Kura o Otangarei, Whangarei Intermediate, Tikipunga High School and Hikurangi Primary School – are making faster progress in learning than the average New Zealand school, according to a report by the University of Auckland’s Woolf Fisher Research Centre.

The report tracked 394 students between Years 4 and 10 who participated in Taitokerau Education Trust’s digital immersion programme throughout 2017. Continue reading

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