NZ’s top academic award — who earns it?
Scholarship is awarded to the highest-performing students in NZ — sitting above NCEA, with roughly 1 in 4 Calculus candidates earning any award. The gaps by ethnicity and school equity tell a stark story about who gets to the top of the academic pipeline.
Award rates over time
The national picture: how has the split between Outstanding awards, Scholarship awards, and No Award shifted from 2015 to 2024? Switch to Ethnicity or Gender view to see how different groups trend over the decade.
Who earns the award?
Each bar shows the award breakdown for a group in a given year — Outstanding (gold), Scholarship (blue), and No Award (dark). Sorted by award rate. Switch between Ethnicity, Equity, Gender, and Region breakdowns.
Equity group data available 2019–2024 only. Small group counts (n<20) may be suppressed or unreliable.