2023 Top Scholars Award winners

Meet the winners of 2023's Top Scholar Awards and watch the award ceremony

NZQA celebrated the success of the highest-achieving New Zealand Scholarship students with an awards ceremony held at Parliament on 8 May 2024.

The awards recognised the elite students who made up the 2023 Premier Award and Top Subject Scholarship Award winners. The Prime Minister’s Award for Academic Excellence was also presented.

View a recording of the Top Scholar Awards 2023 ceremony

Watch the Top Scholar Awards 2023 ceremony

Premier Scholarship Award winners 2023

Student School
Alexander Mayo Hamilton Boys' High School
Tapas Kant Havelock North High School
Nicholas Clarke Auckland Grammar School
Henry Isac Wellington College
Oliver Gunson* Auckland Grammar School
Yinuo Yin* St Cuthbert's College
Yiyang Tao* Westlake Boys' High School
Sean Wang* St Kentigern College
Jayden Kris Dylan Kumar* Auckland Grammar School
Yina Yin* St Cuthbert's College
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*Also a Top Subject Scholarship Award winner

Top Subject Scholarship Award winners 2023

Subject Student School
Accounting Oliver Gunson Auckland Grammar School
Agricultural and Horticultural Science William Duncan Lindisfarne College
Art History Yina Yin St Cuthbert's College
Biology Cruz Erdmann Westlake Boys' High School
Calculus Nicholas McKinlay St Kentigern College
Chemistry Benjamin Elder James Hargest College
Chinese Yinuo Yin St Cuthbert's College
Classical Studies Louisa Boyer Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Dance Noma Jessica Faith Talakiaatu Mount Roskill Grammar School
Design Ava Tuhega St Cuthbert's College
Design and Visual Communication Benjamin Griffiths Hobsonville Point Secondary School
Drama Oscar Shaw Avondale College
Earth and Space Science Yiyang Tao Westlake Boys' High School
Economics Sean Wang St Kentigern College
English Alistair Ha Auckland Grammar School
French Anika Hayes Waitaki Girls' High School
Geography Jayden Kris Dylan Kumar Auckland Grammar School
German Samuel Reeves Mount Albert Grammar School
Health and Physical Education Yina Yin St Cuthbert's College
History Amelia Frear Diocesan School for Girls
Japanese Rita Peryer St Cuthbert's College
Latin Emily Whineray St Cuthbert's College
Media Studies Mason Drylie Westlake Boys' High School
Music Nate Carroll Glenfield College
Painting Paul Austin Wellington High School
Photography Jonathan Larsen Pukekohe High School
Physics Oliver Gunson Auckland Grammar School
Printmaking Gracie Liu Rangi Ruru Girls' School
Religious Studies Archie Lamont-Bowden St Peter's College (Auckland)
Samoan Serafina Sila McAuley High School
Sculpture Oceanlee Tito-Heremaia Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Rāwhitiroa
Spanish Sebastian Camus Rangitoto College
Statistics Nicholas Stuart King's College
Te Ao Haka Awatea Riipeka Taare Rivers Hall Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Hoani Waititi
Te Reo Māori Oceania Te Rere o Kapuni Pene Rotorua Girls' High School
Te Reo Rangatira Te Atamihi Vivienne Papa Te Wharekura o Maniapoto
Technology Jude Wilson Mount Albert Grammar School
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