Macleans College celebrates 2025 Scholarship, NCEA and Cambridge exam success
Posted on March 12, 2026
Macleans College continues to strengthen its reputation as one of New Zealand’s leading academic secondary schools.
Each year, an increasing number of students gain entry to prestigious university programmes in New Zealand and overseas. These outcomes reflect the school’s clear focus on academic excellence. A structured teaching approach and knowledge-rich curriculum support consistent achievement. Students are challenged and guided to reach their full potential.
Student wellbeing remains a priority. The whānau house system fosters connection, belonging and personal growth. Students are supported and encouraged to contribute positively to the school community.
A broad range of extra-curricular activities complements the academic programme. Participation in sport, cultural activities and service builds confidence, leadership and resilience. This balanced education prepares students well for tertiary study and future pathways.
At the annual Macleans College Scholars’ assembly, the school recognised students who achieved at the highest level in the 2025 examinations, including NZQA Scholarship, NCEA and Cambridge International Education (CIE).
2025 academic results
NZQA Scholarship:
- 209 Scholarships achieved, including 23 at Outstanding level
- One Premier Award
- Five Outstanding Scholar Awards
- Twenty-six students achieved three or more Scholarships
CIE:
- Two Top in the World Awards
- Six Top in New Zealand Awards
2025 Dux
The Dux prize is awarded to the Macleans College student who achieved the best results in the annual NZQA Scholarship examinations.
The Dux receives the Allen McDonald Scholarship. This scholarship was established by the Macleans College Parent Teacher Association in recognition of the contribution of Allen McDonald, the second Principal of Macleans College - particularly with regard to the school’s scholastic achievement. The scholarship is worth $2,000.
The Macleans College Dux of 2025 and recipient of the Allen McDonald Scholarship is Alston Yam.
Alston has been awarded an NZQA Premier Scholar Award with an Outstanding Scholarship in Calculus, Earth & Space Science and Geography and Scholarships in Chemistry, Digital Technologies, Physics and Statistics. This award will be presented to Alston at parliament in April.
He is also a CIE Top Achiever with five A* Grades at A Level.
To show he was an all-round student, the highlights from Alston’s extra-curricular in 2025 included symphony orchestra, concert band, Badminton Advanced team, and small House choir. Alston represented New Zealand at the International Maths Olympiad in Australia. He was also a School Prefect and Mansfield House Captain.
Alston has been accepted into Oxford University where he will study mathematics.
2025 Proxime Accessit
This award is presented to Nichole Luo.
Nichole achieved an NZQA Outstanding Scholar Award with Outstanding Scholarships in Biology, Chemistry and Statistics and Scholarship in Calculus. This award recognises Nichole as one of 57 outstanding scholars nationally.
The award is all the more remarkable as Nichole has achieved this as a Year 12 student – a year ahead of her peers.
Nichole is also awarded a CIE Top Achiever Award with two A* grades at A Level in Mathematics and Biology and an A grade in AS Chemistry and Literature in English.
To show that Nichole is more than just an accomplished scholar, in extra-curricular Nichole is a member of the symphony orchestra and concert band, and has participated in Interact Club, Kaitiaki Environmental group and is a Kupe House tutor.
2025 NZQA Scholarship results
Premier Award
In 2025 Premier Awards were gained by the top 13 candidates in New Zealand. Premier Award recipients receive $10,000 each year for three years as long as they maintain at least a ‘B’ grade average in tertiary study.
- Alston Yam
Outstanding Scholarships in Calculus, Earth and Space Science, Geography and Scholarships in Chemistry, Digital Technologies, Physics and Statistics.
Outstanding Scholar Award
In 2025 Outstanding Scholar Awards were gained by 57 candidates nationwide. Outstanding Scholar Award recipients receive $5,000 each year for three years as long as candidates maintain a ‘B’ grade average in tertiary study.
- Wesley Lau
Outstanding Scholarships in Calculus and Statistics and Scholarships in Biology and Chemistry - Nichole Luo
Outstanding Scholarships in Biology, Chemistry and Statistics and Scholarship in Calculus - Josephine Sim
Outstanding Scholarships in Biology and History and Scholarship in Chemistry, English, Religious Studies and Statistics - Bruce Zhang
Outstanding Scholarships in English and Statistics and Scholarship in Chemistry, Geography, History and Physics - Jay Zhao
Outstanding Scholarships in Calculus and Physics and Scholarship Chemistry, Digital Technologies and Statistics
Students who gained Scholarship in three or more subjects, including an Outstanding Scholarship
- Adrian Chan
- Jervis Lai
- Wesley Lau
- William Lee
- Nichole Luo
- Kelly Ma
- Jerry Qiu
- Belinda Shi
- Josephine Sim
- Alston Yam
- Tony Yu
- Bruce Zhang
- Jay Zhao
Students who gained Scholarship in three or more subjects
- Minh Chu
- Sarah Huang
- Aaron Huang
- Janie Kim
- Anna Li
- Oscar Li
- Michael Lu
- Yixin Pan
- Howard Shang
- Richard Tao
- Hayden Tong-Ho
- William Wang
- Haowen Xie
Students who gained one Outstanding Scholarship
- Claire Phillips
- Yixiang Xu
Students who gained one or two Scholarships
Two Scholarships:
- Benjamin Chan
- Emily Chan
- Sin Kiu Rufina Chan
- Joshua Chen
- Anthony Chen
- Justin Cui
- Amelia Hu
- Jason Li
- Louis Li
- Tiffany Li
- Jason Liu
- Ratan Singh
- Chenyou Song
- Derek Tang
- Matt Wang
- Emma Wei
- Lawrence Wen
- Jeremy Wu
- Joyce Xu
- Josiah Yoong
- Areeba Zabrina
One Scholarship:
- Ibrahim Al-Joghul
- Carol Chai
- Abi Chambers
- Joanne Chen
- Cyril Chen
- Andrew Chen
- David Cheng
- Charis Cheung
- Gisele Chong
- Jocelyn Chow
- Jessica Dai
- Dahlia de Chantal
- Aimee Gao
- Isaac Han
- Andrew Hu
- Angela Jiang
- Nimrit Kaur
- Sheldon Kou
- Daniel Lee
- Haoxiang Li
- Ruize Li
- Derek Liang
- Larry Lin
- Liyang Lin
- Jennifer Liu
- Olivia Liu
- Gordon Lo
- William Lockhart
- Jessie Lyu
- Sienna McCormick
- Kie Mori
- Lukas Ng
- Tristan Pearce
- Angela Ren
- Ikjot Singh
- Moss Smith
- Josh Stephens
- Jacqueline Tahir
- Sophie Tao
- Isla Wang
- Katherine Wang
- Katherine Zi Xin Wang
- Karise Wong
- Youqi Wu
- Yvonne Wu
- Kevin Xing
- James Yang
- Aliza Yasir
- Leon Yuan
- Alice Zhang
- Hope Zhang
- Alan Zhou
- Nicole Zhou
- Isaac Zhu
- Amy Zuo
2025 NCEA Outstanding Performance
NCEA Year 13 Top Achiever Award
Students who achieved Level 3 Endorsed with Excellence (with a minimum of 50 credits at Excellence level)
- Hamzah Al-ani
- Josh Bain
- Zoe Brazier
- Abi Chambers
- Emily Chen
- Dahlia de Chantal
- Melinda He
- Madeline He
- Vicky Hu
- Prabhjot Kaur
- Abhay Kaushal
- Sara Li
- Derek Liang
- Jennifer Liu
- Olivia Liu
- Ruby Liu
- Tristan Pearce
- Ana Pirini
- Charlotte Radford
- Elise Segedin
- Namman Singh
- Gordon Situ
- Sophie Smith
- Sabine Spiller
- Tim Townend
- Kanchugan Vishvanaath
- Tiffany Xiao
- Joyce Xu
- Yoyo Zheng
- Belinda Zhong
- Isaac Zhu
NCEA Year 12 Top Achiever Award
Students who achieved Level 2 Endorsed with Excellence (with a minimum of 50 credits at Excellence level)
- Aru Aiko
- Daniel Bain
- Alerys Bodle
- Emma Chang
- Dayanara Chavez
- Sumida Gande
- Winny He
- Amelia Huang
- Poppy Jackson
- Anna Keenan
- Ayaan Lambat
- Eliza Li
- Evelyn Liu
- Kate McKeen
- Manija Mohammad
- Zia Mohammed
- Kinjal Pandey
- Holly Richardson
- Julie Shen
- Emily Soun
- Mia Xu
- Tara Zhang
2025 CIE Outstanding Performance
Top in the World
Top in New Zealand
- Wesley Lau
A Level Mathematics - Kelly Ma
A Level Accounting
- Isla Wang
AS Biology - Anna Li
AS Computer Science - Zuhair Burney
AS Computer Science - Nuonuo Cai
AS Economics - Enoch Hung
AS Geography - Aaron Huang
A Level Business
Students who achieved an A grade in four or more subjects at AS Level
- Fariha Ahmad
- Ryan Billings
- Karen Lu
- Vonara Peiris
- Tahzeeb Tahiat
- Sophie Tao
Students who achieved an A grade in four or more subjects at AS and A Level
- Jessica Bao
- Zuhair Burney
- Rhianna Burt
- Joyce Cai
- Melody Cai
- Nuonuo Cai
- Carol Chai
- Daniel Chan
- Joanne Chen
- Jinyu Chen
- Jenson Chenery
- Eric Huang
- Sherry Jiang
- Syesha John
- Larry Lin
- Jason Liu
- Lachlan Mclean
- Julia Ning
- Jerry Qiu
- Lene Rekdal
- Emma Rowe
- Edwin Shen
- Richard Tao
- Cooper Wang
- Katherine Zi Xin Wang
- Haowen Xie
- Bonnie Xing
- Phoebe Zhang
- Qiuran Zhang
- Teddy Zhao
- Alan Zhou
- Hannah Zhou
- Amy Zuo
Students who achieved a minimum of two A* grades in two subjects at A Level
- Svasti Bhardwaj
- Emily Chan
- Katie Chee
- Brandon Chen
- Charis Cheung
- Minh Chu
- Jessica Dai
- Alexander Fahey
- Bowen Guan
- Thisuri Gunasekara
- Chelsea Hong
- Lancy Huang
- Steve Huang
- Sarah Huang
- Jay Hwang
- Tj Kichavadi
- Janie Kim
- Sheldon Kou
- Wesley Lau
- William Lee
- Anna Li
- Louis Li
- Ruize Li
- Catherine Luo
- Nichole Luo
- Jessie Lyu
- Yixin Pan
- Claire Phillips
- Sophia Pu
- Nathan Rao
- Sara Rekdal
- Alex Rose
- Howard Shang
- Tiana Sharma
- Ratan Singh
- Chenyou Song
- Evana Song
- Kanishk Soni
- Hannah Su
- Derek Tang
- Hayden Tong-Ho
- Annika Wang
- Hexun Wang
- Jerra Wei
- Kaveesh Wellagiriya
- Angela Wu
- Alston Yam
- Areeba Zabrina
- Nicole Zhou
Students who achieved a minimum A* grade in three subjects at A Level
- Jimmy Cao
- Adrian Chan
- Sin Kiu Rufina Chan
- Cyril Chen
- Joshua Chen
- Justin Cui
- Sicheng Fang
- Oscar Li
- Michael Lu
- Kelly Ma
- Belinda Shi
- Eddie Wang
- William Wang
- Emma Wei
- Alston Yam
- Nancy Zhang
- Jay Zhao
Students who achieved two A grades in AS
- Benjamin Chan
- Natalie Choi
- Chace Chong
- Mindulie Fernando
- Ethan Han
- Emilia He
- Chloe Hu
- Daniel Lee
- Alysa Lin
- Stephanie Lin
- Eric Liu
- Peter Lu
- Charles Nguyen
- Borris Pei
- Senith Ranawaka Arachchige Don
- Ayan Shah
- Julian Wang
- Isla Wang
- Samuel Zhan
- Krystal Zhang
- Lucy Zhang
- Vivian Zhang
- Yixin Zhang
Verification of academic results
Universities and tertiary institutions are requested to contact the Academic Registrar for official confirmation of student results. Please submit enquiries via [email protected]
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