 Sancta Maria College offers NCEA as its national qualifications standard and each year students results are significantly higher than national averages.They have a system of 'impositions' for misbehaviour and rule infringement which can lead up to an afterschool detention or a Saturday detention for continued or more serious offences.The houses of Sancta Maria College are named after ports or harbours in New Zealand at which Bishop Pompallier's schooner landed.