NCEA results

The secondary school percentages for NCEA passes are published in the DomPost today.

The advice is to take the decile rating into account when making comparisons. In general the link between performance and decile rating is fairly evident but there are some low decile schools performing very well.

For instance, in the Hawkes Bay there are two secondary schools both with a decile rating of 1 (poorest):

Flaxmere College managed to get 5.6% of its Year 11 pupils through level 1
whereas Hukere passed 88.9 percent (The rolls are dissimilar in size with 318 vs 96).

Overall the low decile school's performance is way below national averages. Given most kids are qoing to need qualifications of some sort, the polarisation is quite alarming. And the degree of polarisation looks greater amongst Maori.