Auckland Girls’ Grammar School is tracking to once again deliver outstanding academic results for its 2024 students.
In 2023 all of the school’s results sky-rocketed with its big “boast” number achieving more than 80 percent success for University Entrance – when the national average of UE pass marks for schools is just 46 percent.
“Our numbers just keep growing year-on-year,” explains Deputy Principal Gavin Morgan. “Sixty-four percent back in 2019. And now up to the 80 percent mark. It’s extraordinary.”
The constant improvement has come under the reign of Principal Ngaire Ashmore.
“Every year in my seven years at Auckland Girls’ it’s been great, we’ve increased and we’ve been really proud,” says Ashmore. “But this year was the first year where we are absolutely over the moon.
“We feel so good – incredible – about where we landed.”
And with exam season for 2024 underway, the numbers look to be tracking just as well, showing that Auckland Girls’ Grammar School is academically on an even playing field with its inner-city rivals.
Says Ashmore: “We compete against schools like Epsom Girls, private schools like Dio and St Cuths, St Mary’s, Marist … And I think our results indicate we are now right on par for academic achievement.”
AGGS is also shouting loud and proud about the stats for their Maori and Pacific students, which again are tracking towards excellence, with hopes that results will match or even improve on the 2023 numbers.
And when you consider that last year 74 percent of Maori Students and 75 percent of Pacific Students achieved UE at AGGS – soaring above the national averages of 29 and 27 percent respectively – Auckland Girls’ has every reason to be loud and proud.
“Everyone’s in this realm of it’s so doom and gloom and bad for Maori and Pacific students,” Ashmore reflects. “And here is a story that bucks that trend. In fact it reverses the rhetoric completely.”
2024 Head Girl Samarah Basir, who’s entering Law School next year, is testament to the success of this evolving AGGS ethos.
“The Staff are incredibly prepared and they’re incredibly kind .. and they’re always willing to help us,’ Basir says. “They’re not only there as a staff member, but as your friend too – and I think that the connections they make with every student definitely helps us succeed and not only get excellence in our education – but know that we are looked after as well.”
