Auckland Girls’ Grammar School has achieved near-perfect academic results for 2025.
2025 Results at a Glance
In the NCEA and University Entrance results just released, AGGS’ success rate is astronomical – 97.5 percent for Level 3 NCEA, 97.8 for Level 2 and 91.7 for Level 1. For University Entrance, student success rate was 91.5 percent.
This is the third straight year that Auckland Girls’ Grammar School has achieved numbers in the 90s – AGGS’ Principal Ngaire Ashmore is proud and delighted.
“We are blown away,” beams Ashmore. “I mean, even if we got close to what we achieved in 2024 we would have been really happy. But this (the 2025 results) just blew us out of the water.”
Add to that the fact that 100 percent of Māori students in Year 13 gained Level 3 and 100 percent of Māori students in Year 12 gained Level 2 and Ashmore has every reason to beam.
How AGGS Achieved It
For the past three years AGGS’ numbers have grown year-on-year with the focus of the school’s Senior Leadership Team creating bespoke education plans for each and every student.
The strategy under Principal Ashmore includes tailored curriculum, tutoring, one-on-one mentorships, examining how best to maximise each student’s time at school and constant check-ins with students and whānau to provide support and to act quickly if any academic tweaks or wrap-around care is needed.
“We Are Blown Away”
Ashmore explains: “It’s no easy feat. It is planned, it is organised. We are unapologetically focused on making sure every single student gets opportunity. That is an exceptional amount of work by teachers, but everyone is committed to making the absolute best opportunities.”
While Ashmore is stunned by the near-perfect results, she says her team weren’t surprised: “We have these amazing Deans and Pouwhakarae who work so hard,” says Ashmore, “and they always give a prediction at the end of each year. I thought they were being really optimistic, but they obviously knew their girls and knew their data. And it came to fruition.”
“But to be honest, we are all completely ecstatic. It just is exceptional and I’m so happy for all of the girls who went onto NZQA mid-January and saw that they had achieved. They would have been over the moon.
They will be thrilled. They will all be thinking that they will go onto tertiary and they’re going to make their way in the world … and that’s really exciting that so many have now got the option to do that.”
