Logan Park High School offers an online correspondence summer school for any level 3 pupils who may be a few credits away from achieving university entrance (UE).
Principal Peter Hills said the programme began nearly 10 years ago to help two or three Logan Park pupils achieve UE.
Word quickly spread and pupils from all around Dunedin and then New Zealand began signing up.
"We saw there was a bit of a need and if we’re going to do three we might as well do 20 or 30 or whatever and then it just sort of grew."
"We’ve had students from Whangarei to Bluff and everywhere in between now," Mr Hills said.
He said the programme now took up to about 150 enrolments. The number had been about 200 during Covid.
He said online learning offered pupils a lot of flexibility.
"That suits young people more working on a dairy farm or a fruit picking orchard in Central Otago, and they’re trying to make some money to go to university and they find out they’re seven or eight credits short of UE."
The programme offered internals for every subject in the New Zealand framework. It had about a 70% success rate.
Pupils could begin working as soon as a day after their enrolment and were free to take up to six months to complete their course work.
They would be assigned a tutor to work one-on-one with them who was either a Logan Park teacher, retired teacher or someone brought in by the school.
