Abstract
Understanding key factors that contribute to (or negatively impact on) Māori student success can:
• Promote the development of better policy that supports Māori students to achieve educational success;
• Aid in targeting resources to support success;
• Encourage a move away from deficit insinuation that the challenges some Māori face in education are based on ethnicity; and
• Promote better understanding of contextual factors and the myriad of things that contribute to the outcomes we experience.
