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Year 4 Numeracy performance by school authority
Most year four students who participated in the PILNA 2021 numeracy assessment were enrolled in government schools: 81% in government schools and 19% in non-government schools.
Figure CNF4.5 shows the average performance of year four students by school authority.
Students in government schools scored about the same as students in non-government schools in overall numeracy and most numeracy strands. There was a small difference in the ‘Data’ strand; students from government schools scored slightly higher in this strand. Overall, this is consistent with the trend in previous PILNA cycles. In both 2015 and 2018, students enrolled in non-government schools scored about the same in all numeracy areas compared with those in government schools. Further statistical testing needs to be performed to understand if these differences in scores are significant or the result of chance or outliers.
