{"id":551015,"date":"2026-07-30T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/551015\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:25:09","slug":"more-than-10000-teens-left-school-in-2025-with-no-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/551015\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 10,000 teens left school in 2025 with no qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A jump in the number of teens leaving school with no formal qualifications has continued.<\/p>\n<p>By John Gerritsen of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/education\/839827\/more-than-10-000-teens-left-school-in-2025-with-no-qualifications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Education Ministry figures show 15% of last year&#8217;s school leavers had no NCEA certificate or equivalent qualification \u2013 the same figure as the previous two years and worse than the pre-Covid figure of 10-11%.<\/p>\n<p>It means 10,473 teens left school in 2025 with no NCEA certificate or other qualification.<\/p>\n<p>At schools in the poorest neighbourhoods more than a quarter of leavers had nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The figures showed 78% of last year&#8217;s leavers had at least NCEA level two (a one percentage point increase), and 59% had level three (up three percentage points).<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of M\u0101ori and Pacific leavers with level two increased slightly to 63% and 74% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of M\u0101ori and Pacific leavers with at least level three increased three percentage points to 41% and 53% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The figures showed 18% of last year&#8217;s leavers did not meet the NCEA literacy and numeracy co-requisite.<\/p>\n<p>Although 85% met the literacy requirement and 85% met the numeracy requirement, only 82% met both.<\/p>\n<p>At schools facing the highest levels of socio-economic disadvantage 73% met the numeracy requirement and 74% the literacy but only 68% met both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A jump in the number of teens leaving school with no formal qualifications has continued. By John Gerritsen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[84,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-551015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}