How Our Students Did Academically

2025 End of Year School Data

General Comments:

At Ōtūmoetai Intermediate, the aim of our teachers is to accelerate student learning and achievement levels over the short space of two years the students attend our school. We set an aspirational target of between 70% – 85% of students graduating at or above the expected curriculum level in Reading, Writing and Maths by the time they leave us as Year 8s.

It is important to note that we are currently in a transitional phase for assessing and reporting student learning progress due to the staggered introduction of Te Mātaiaho (The Refreshed New Zealand Curriculum). It has been the school’s decision to commence reporting against both the refreshed Mathematics and Statistics and the refreshed English curriculums from the start of 2026. This will mean that schoolwide data, together with reporting student learning progress will look different in the 2026 reporting year.

2025 Results:

The following graphs demonstrate the percentage of students that leave us at year 8 ‘at and above’ the expected curriculum level. The light blue bars show these students as they enter the school as year 7’s. The dark blue bars show the same students at the end of their Year 8 year.

Reading Results

All Students                                                                                                                                   Maori Students

Māori Students

As our Year 8 students graduate from school, the school wide data shows 78% of these students are at or above the expected curriculum level for Reading at the end of their two years at the Intermediate.

For our Māori Year 8 students, the school wide data shows 66% of these students are at or above the expected curriculum level for Reading at the end of their two years at the Intermediate.

Writing

All Students

Māori Students

As the year 8 students graduate from school, school wide data shows 66% of all year 8 students are achieving at or above expectation in Writing at the end of their two years at the Intermediate.

As the year 8 Māori students graduate from school, school wide data shows 53% are achieving at or above expectation in Writing at the end of their two years at the Intermediate.

As a general rule, teachers are very conservative when assessing writing levels. Students need to show they are consistently accurate when writing across the curriculum to be assessed at or above expectation.  We are encouraged that Ōtūmoetai College, the destination of 96% of our students, indicates that writing is improving in the students that arrive with them as borne out by consistently strong year 10 writing results in the Common Assessment Activities (CAA). Looking ahead, we will be interested in assessing our students’ writing skills against the National average using a new Student Monitoring Assessment and Reporting Tool being developed in conjunction with Te Mātaiaho, the refreshed curriculum.