Pāpāmoa College’s emphasis on higher standards has resulted in significant NCEA improvement across all levels based on their provisional NCEA data from 2023.

The school’s percentage improvement from the previous year at each level of the qualification is the best in the region, out-performing every other local secondary school.

Despite a national decline in NCEA around the country, Pāpāmoa College bucked the trend and presented some impressive new year results.

There were a number of factors that have culminated in the pleasing improvement.

The school community, staff and students were fully united in its desire to reinvent itself.

For too long it was a place that had lost its way and needed to realign itself with some critically important priorities.

Far too many students were not achieving - some leaving with little or no qualifications.

Last year the school started to turn things around and are now seeing a very different culture of learning.

It undertook many school improvement reviews and inquiries and facilitated a huge amount of community workshops to ensure partnerships were in place before any change occurred.

The biggest factor in the school’s revival was its commitment to its learners.

The school has somewhat returned to a more traditional model of Teaching and Learning.

While a modern learning physical environment has its place in education, Pāpāmoa College decided to deliver curriculum more fundamentally within a more single cell classroom space environment.

All senior NCEA classes are now accommodated in modular classrooms.

The school board appreciates the vast improvement and formally acknowledged all staff for their effort to make Pāpāmoa College the school of choice but reiterated the need not to rest on what has currently been achieved but to sustain and exceed the results further next year.

It is an exciting time for the Pāpāmoa College community.