2024 Academic Results

The 2024 academic results are very pleasing, with students in senior year groups performing extremely well in all external assessments.

Cambridge Assessment International Education

In 2024, A Level performances were very strong. The percentage of A* and A grades were 37.1%, with the overall pass rate sitting at 99.6%. The AS results were also good, with the A-C pass rate exceeding 67% and the overall pass rate at 94.3%. This represents exceptionally strong performance in one of the world’s most academically demanding secondary school qualifications.

Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards

Auckland Grammar School students have done exceptionally well in the 2024 Cambridge examinations, gaining a total of 24 awards at the highest level in specific Cambridge subjects. Their achievements were recognised at the recent Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards and include:

• Nine High Achievement Awards (these are Top in New Zealand /the World but in subjects with limited entries)
• Eight Top in New Zealand
• Five Top in the World Awards

The School congratulates the following students for their exceptional performance:

NCEA

The School’s NCEA cohort also performed very well again in 2024. At Level 2, 71% of students gained their certificates, and 26 students saw their certificates endorsed with Merit. At Level 3, 78% of students Achieved the qualification, and 16 had their certificates endorsed with Merit.

In 2024, 61% of Level 3 students achieved University Entrance.

University Entrance

Our students study predominantly rigorous, academic subjects and standards which lead to comparatively high University Entrance rates for the Form 7 cohort. Cambridge students achieved a University Entrance E pass rate of 99.3% in 2024, and the NCEA Form 7 cohort achieved 60%. Combined, the Form 7 students in 2024 achieved a UE pass rate of 86.1%.

In 2024, the national pass rate for all students was 48.2% and the figure for all students in our Equity Index Band (EIB) was 72.2%. The 2024 national average for boys in schools in our EIB achieving University Entrance was 63.1%. Across all schools in New Zealand, the University Entrance rate for boys sat at 42.5%.

NZQA Scholarship

In 2024, 95 students gained 218 individual subject Scholarships, including 29 at Outstanding level. This represents Grammar students’ best ever performance in NZQA Scholarship assessments.

Tianlang Gong was awarded Scholarships in Agriculture and Horticulture, Calculus and Geography, and Outstanding Scholarships in Chemistry, English, Physics and Statistics. He is one of 12 students nationally to be awarded am NZQA Premier Award. To be named a Premier Scholar, students need to have gained at least four New Zealand subject Scholarships, including three or more at Outstanding level.

Seven Grammar students received Outstanding Scholarship Awards for their excellent results: Elson Chen, Benny Larsen, Aaryan Maganlal, Chris Pan, Luca Toner, Arsh Verma, and Stanley Zhang.

NZQA Scholarships were again gained in an impressive range of subjects, including:

• Accounting
• Agriculture and Horticulture
• Biology
• Calculus
• Chemistry
• Chinese
• Classics
• Design
• Earth and Space Science
• Economics
• English
• French
• Geography
• Health and Physical Education
• History
• Japanese
• Latin
• Media Studies
• Music
• Physics
• Religious Studies
• Spanish
• Statistics