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[IN-CONFIDENCE - RELEASE EXTERNAL]

Kia ora Sam,

 

Thank you for the information request below.  The Ministry will consider
and respond to your request in accordance with the Official Information
Act 1982 (the Act).

 

Under section 15(1) of the Act, we are required to make and inform you of
our decision on your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any
case not later than 20 working days after the day on which your request is
received.  You can therefore expect to receive our decision on your
request on or before 29 January 2026.  If more than 20 working days are
needed due to the potential workload and/or consultations involved in
answering your request, we will notify you accordingly.

 

Please note, the days between 25 December – 15 January (inclusive) are not
considered to be “working days” for the purposes of calculating the 20
working day timeframe for providing a response under the Act.

 

In the interim, if you have any questions about your request, please email
[1][email address].

 

Ngâ mihi,

Enquiries National Team | Te Tâhuhu o te Mâtauranga | Ministry of
Education | JH
[2]education.govt.nz
We shape an education system that delivers equitable and excellent
outcomes
He mea târai e mâtou te mâtauranga kia rangatira ai, kia mana taurite ai
ôna huanga

[3]Te TD huhu o te MD tauranga

 

 

 

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[IN-CONFIDENCE - RELEASE EXTERNAL]

Kia ora,

Please find attached a transfer letter in relation to your request under the Official Information Act 1982.

Nāku noa, nā,
Official and Parliamentary Information | Ministry of Education | LJ
education.govt.nz

He mea tārai e mātou te mātauranga kia rangatira ai, kia mana taurite ai ōna huanga
We shape an education system that delivers equitable and excellent outcomes

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Kia ora Sam

 

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 which
was transferred to NZQA on 6 January 2026 seeking the following
information:

 

          Please provide the school-level outcome data for the Common
Assessment Activities associated with the NCEA Literacy and Numeracy Co
requisite standards for the 2024 and 2025 calendar years. I am requesting
this in spreadsheet or machine readable form. I am not seeking names of
individual students or any personal identifying information and accept
standard statistical suppression where necessary to manage re
identification risk.

 

If you do not release this, then provide the suppression rules, cohort
thresholds, statistical tests and privacy criteria used to determine
whether school level Common Assessment Activity data for the NCEA Literacy
and Numeracy Co requisite standards can be released publicly, including
any methodology documents or policy settings that guide these decisions.
Please ensure that this is in Plain English.

 

Furthermore, if you decline to release this, please provide all policy
papers, internal briefings, emails containing final advice, and decision
records created since 1 January 2023 that relate to the public release or
non release of school level Common Assessment Activity data for the NCEA
Literacy and Numeracy Co requisite standards. This includes any advice
provided to Ministers or senior officials. Please ensure that this is in
Plain English

 

You can expect to receive a response to your request on or before 13
February 2026. You will be contacted again if there is a likelihood that
this timeframe cannot be met.

 

As you may know requests for official information become official
information once received.  As part of the processing of requests for
official information, NZQA may need to consult with relevant third
parties.  During the consultation, a third party may ask for the identity
of the individual/organisation requesting the information. If you are an
individual making a request, please advise us whether or not you would
have an objection to disclosing your identity if a third party asks for
your identity, and the reasons for your objection.   If you are an
individual making a request on behalf of an organisation, please advise us
both whether you personally have an objection to disclosing your identity,
and the reasons for your objection, as well as any objection to
identifying the organisation, together with reasons. NZQA will consider
your reasons and whether they fit with any withholding grounds under the
Privacy Act 2020 or the Official Information Act 1982.

 

Requests from an organisation for information about the organisation will
be processed under Part 4 of the Official Information Act.

 

As part of the commitment to open and transparent government, NZQA is
proactively releasing responses to Official Information Act requests which
are of public interest. We publish OIA responses on a quarterly basis. We
will include advice about the publication of your request in our final
response letter. Your name and contact details will be removed before
publication.

 

In some circumstances after scoping a request, NZQA may decide to charge
for making the requested information available. If this is the case, we
will write to you again with details and seek confirmation you wanted to
proceed on that basis.

 

For any enquiries about your request, please contact
[1][email address]

 

If you are dissatisfied with our response, you have the right, under
section 28(3) of the Official Information Act 1982, to lodge a complaint
with the Office of the Ombudsman at [2]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz. You
can also telephone 0800 802 502 or write to the Ombudsman at PO Box 10152,
Wellington, 6143.

 

Ngā mihi

NZQA Ministerials team

 

 

 

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