The Academic Malaise of NZ’s Provincial Boys’ Schools

St Peter's College in Epsom is the leading academic boys school in NZ with 94.2% of their LEAVERS having University Entrance*.

Instead of deciles in NZ we now have schools with an Equity Index number that shows the number of students at school with “risk factors” for non-achievement. St Peter's in Epsom is quite low at 386. The high is Flaxmere College a…