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Grade 5 Reading performance by school locality
Most grade five students who participated in the PILNA 2021 reading assessment in Palau were enrolled in urban schools; 77% of students were enrolled in urban schools and 23% in non-urban schools.
Figure CRF5.7 shows the performance of grade five students by school locality, urban and non-urban, over time. In 2021, students in urban schools (575) scored slightly higher on average in reading performance than students in non-urban schools (568).
As seen in Figure CRF5.8, the same trend was seen in PILNA 2015 and PILNA 2018, but the differences were larger. In these PILNA cycles, students from urban schools scored higher in average reading performance than students in non-urban schools. Urban schools have consistently scored higher than non-urban schools over the past three PILNA cycles, although the differences in 2021 were smaller than in previous cycles.
