Dear parents and caregivers

I hope your holiday was restful and that you’re looking forward to another successful year ahead.

I would like to extend a very warm welcome to our new Y7 students and families and to all others joining Papamoa College whanau in 2025. 

I would like to again acknowledge everyone for the support and commitment to reinventing Pāpāmoa College. I continue to be encouraged by our progress and am pleased that we continue to sustain and exceed expectations.

This new year we will consolidate our vision for the future by 'Embracing Opportunities; Creating Excellence’ in everything we do.

Our NCEA provisional results were again outstanding and we improved on last year's performance in nearly all areas. Some key points to note:

• We were better than national averages in all levels of NCEA across NZ

• We were better than national decile (similar type schools) in all levels of NCEA across NZ

• We expect further (albeit slight) improvement once confirmed results have been released in March this year.

Level 1 | 80.6 % passed (2.7% increase from 2023)

Level 2 | 87.4 % passed (9.6% increase from 2023)

Level 3 | 72.9 % passed (1.3% decrease from 2023)

UE        | 51.8 % increase (4.3% decrease from 2023)

It is pleasing that as a school we now have comparable if not better NCEA results than local secondary schools. 

Once again we look forward to welcoming you and your children to the kura in 2025.

Ngā mihi nui

Mr Iva Ropati
Principal