Scholarship

The NZQA Scholarship exams take place at the end of the year. Preparation programmes begin in Terms 1 and 2 and involve extra sessions, often outside of timetabled class time, to prepare students for the exams. The college runs breakfast sessions with guest speakers during the year as a way of offering students some insight into what it takes to be academically successful and develop an academic mindset.

Rangitoto College scholarship students have received an incredible 324 NZQA scholarships, including 32 passes at Outstanding level– the highest number of scholarships ever attained by a New Zealand school. Congratulations to all our NZQA Scholarship recipients for 2024 for this amazing achievement.  The college also saw two Year 10 students receiving 2 scholarships, twenty-three Year 11 students receiving 32 scholarships and sixty-seven Year 12 students receiving 111 scholarships.

This milestone also marks the 5th time Rangitoto College has led New Zealand in scholarship passes, with successes across 27 subjects in 2024. Astonishingly, across the 29 subjects entered, Rangitoto College attained 8% of all scholarships available nationwide. Once again, our results place our kura as one of the leading academic schools in New Zealand. 

These accomplishments were celebrated at our Scholarship Evening, where students, teachers and whānau were welcomed to celebrate these results as this is a fantastic testament to their dedication, hard work, and perseverance. 

Our 2024 NCEA Dux, Leanne Kim earned 10 scholarships, with 7 at Outstanding level. This sees Lianne receive one of only 12 Premier Awards in the country.

In 2024 Rangitoto students received 9 outstanding scholarship awards:

Year 13

• Hanxi Yang
• Olesya Korchagina
• Joey Wong
• John Cai
• Layla Clarke

Year 12

• Taein Jung
• Joshua Lo
• Leo Wang 

Year 11

• Joshua Wang

This is an accolade gained by only 40-60 students nationwide. Students receive $5,000 each year for three years as long as they maintain at least a “B” grade average in tertiary studies.  The criteria for the Outstanding Scholar Awards is a minimum of three Scholarships with two at “Outstanding” level, or at least five Scholarships with one at “Outstanding” level, or at least four Scholarships with one at “Outstanding” level and a top two performance in at least one subject.

Rangitoto College is very proud that our students have been recipients of the prestigious Top Subject Scholarship Award.  Alumni Sebastian Camus, Sara Yavari, Ashley Huddart, Cameron Senior, Friederike Voit and Yan Kuan have all been awarded this –  a pheunomenal accomplishment. “Top in Subject” refers to a student who has scored higher than all other students across New Zealand in their chosen Scholarship subject.  This is an incredible achievement – only 37 students in New Zealand attained this award across the various subjects.

Sebastian received an award for Spanish, Sara for Earth and Space Science, Ashley received 2 awards in Statistics and Health and Physical Education, Cameron received 3 awards in Art History, Geography and Statistics, Friederike Voit received an award for Art History and Yan Kuan received an award for Health and Physical Education.  In addition, in 2021, Cameron Senior was the recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for Academic Excellence, an amazing achievement and a reflection of his hard work and efforts.  In 2020 both Friederike Voit and Cameron Senior received the Premier Scholarship Award.