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Which schools have the best academic performance in the city? What does that really mean? What should you look for at a school open day? Just how do you judge the quality — and the suitability — of a school for your kids? This article first appeared in the July/August 2. Metro. Photographs by Simon Young.

Read more: The Best Schools in Auckland 2. Statistics. It’s right to be worried. Statistics are collections of facts, supposedly arranged so meaning can be taken from them. Sadly, despite that clarity of purpose, statistics for schools are among the most difficult collections of facts you may ever encounter. Commonly, they’re misconceived and sometimes straight- out misrepresented. They can be incomplete, irrelevant and incomprehensible.

They never give the whole story and sometimes they’re just plain wrong. The statistical evidence we present on these pages suggests St Cuthbert’s College is the best school in Auckland. It also suggests Mc. Auley High School is the best. And that Auckland International College is too. Our data also highlights the claims to greatness of several other schools, including but by no means limited to: Auckland Grammar, Western Springs, Avondale College and Mt Roskill Grammar, ACG Parnell College, Macleans College and a long list of Catholic schools including Baradene, Carmel, Liston, Marcellin, St Dominic’s and St Mary’s.

The message? There are many ways to calculate excellence. Moreover, while those schools and others show outstanding achievements of varying kinds, it doesn’t follow that mid- table schools have a dull record. The general standard of secondary education in Auckland is high. If you visit Long Bay College, Northcote College, Manurewa High — and that’s a very brief sample list — you’ll find good things aplenty: exciting curricular and non- curricular programmes, skilled and dedicated staff, engaged students who look you in the eye with a bright confidence. LOOK THEM IN THE EYEThat last thing, by the way, according to experts such as former University of Auckland professor John Hattie, is the first thing to look for in a school. Why? Because confidence motivates achievement.

Also, because eye contact implies a questioning, critically aware, curious mind. And, don’t forget this, because eye contact signifies a lack of fear. A school where the kids walk around with their eyes averted is quite possibly a school that has failed to control bullying. So, go to the school and look at how the kids look at each other. Scoring points: Mc. Auley High School.

DECILES DON'T MATTERThe top student in the elite Scholarship exams last year came from Rutherford College, a decile 5 state co- ed in Te Atatu. Rutherford was also the only school in the country to have three “top in New Zealand” scholars. Four decile 4- 6 schools (Avondale, Lynfield, Mt Roskill Grammar and Rutherford) had a Scholarship pass rate not far short of the average for decile 9- 1.

Catholic schools. Decile 4 Avondale College also produced the top Cambridge exams scholar in the world last year. He won a $1. 00,0.

Cambridge University. There’s a lot of confusion about deciles. Mark Shanahan, principal at Waitakere College, told us, “Even my many professional friends continue to ask, ‘Why haven’t you raised the decile of your school?’”Shanahan can’t do that, no matter how high- achieving his school may become.

That’s because deciles are not a measure of quality, and nor do they correlate to any given student’s chance of success. They reflect nothing more than the income level in the students’ homes: the greater the wealth, the higher the decile. It’s true that on average, higher- decile schools have better academic results. Our table overpage shows that clearly. There are all sorts of reasons, many of which boil down to this: higher- decile schools are more likely than others to have students who will do well, whatever school they go to.

But it doesn’t follow that a higher decile school is a better school. MATCH THE KID TO THE DATALooking at overall pass rates is not the best way to choose a school for an individual child. You want to burrow into the data a bit more than that. Is your child very able academically? You’ll want a school that nurtures that ability. Look for solid success at the top end of performance: a long gold bar in the NCEA graph and gold stars in the UE and Scholarship results. For most people, it’s probably fair to say they want a school that will set their children up well for tertiary study, either at university or in a vocational course.

The best measure for this is University Entrance, which is not an exam but a level of achievement applied across all exam systems. Most students get it in Year 1. Year 1. 2. Check out the UE data, especially the arrows (which show how a school’s UE results are trending over time), the weighted average and the gold stars. Maybe, though, your child’s greatest need is to have a good chance of going on to vocational or trade training after school. You’ll want to avoid the “long tail” of under- achievement, which afflicts some low- decile schools and some others too: there are Auckland schools where a third or more students leave without any qualification at all. That’s still a matter of shame.

The NCEA graph is where you should focus your attention. With low- decile schools it’s tempting to blame poor performance on poverty, and it’s true that schools in the low deciles face a range of hardships not so common to the others.

But the graph shows some decile 1- 3 schools have a very short tail of failure, and at some mid- and high- decile schools it’s longer than you might expect. Again, the decile level doesn’t mechanically determine the outcome.

GREAT TEACHERS MATTERTeacher quality, especially where staff are motivated and organised to achieve by a good principal, is the greatest predictor of success for kids in school. Sadly, teaching is undervalued as a career option in New Zealand, so it doesn’t attract enough of our best and brightest young adults. And it’s too easy for mediocre teachers, who really should be doing something else, to clog up the staffroom. But remember, while most (all?) schools have some teachers who are not going to set your child’s imagination and critical faculties on fire, that in itself doesn’t matter. What you want is for the school to have at least some great teachers. Children need an enlightening and transformative experience at some stage in their schooling.

It’s preferable they get it more than once, but they don’t need it all the time. What’s vital is that someone lights up a love of learning and an inner belief that they can and should set themselves high goals. Striking that match is what a great teacher does. Apart from the great ones, the general level of teaching should also be pretty high. How do you tell? Check out ratemyteachers. The kids know, you know.

Also, ask about professional development and staff support for each other. Are teachers expected to keep extending themselves? How are they organised to share ideas and experience? In many parts of the city, schools share their skills in local clusters: being in a cluster is a great sign of a school’s commitment to improvement. Catholic character: St Peter's College.

MENTORING MATTERSHaving the most skilled and experienced people mentor others, and involving everyone in peer support, doesn’t apply just to teachers. Many schools ask senior students to mentor juniors, and peer support through buddy systems and the like is quite common too. Watch The Dukes Of Hazzard HD 1080P. Showtime Full What Now Online Free. Ask about this. Schools that value such programmes are strengthening their students’ sense of community, often breaking down social and cultural barriers in the process. This all helps with personal values as well as academic and other achievements, and it undermines the causes of bullying too.

ANOTHER THING ABOUT DECILESAllan Vester, principal at Edgewater College in Pakuranga, says one of the reasons high- decile schools tend to record higher marks is that “the proportion of students with paid tutors closely mirrors the decile”. Hot Shots! Movie Watch Online.