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Year 6 Numeracy performance by school locality
A roughly equal proportion of year six students who participated in the PILNA 2021 numeracy assessment were enrolled in urban and non-urban schools: 47% in urban schools and 53% in non-urban schools.
Figure CNF6.6 shows the average performance of year six students by school locality. Year six students in urban schools scored higher than those in non-urban schools in the overall numeracy domain and across all four numeracy strands. The biggest difference was observed in the ‘Operations’ strand. This is consistent with PILNA 2015 where students from urban schools also scored higher than students from non-urban schools in all numeracy areas, but not with PILNA 2018, when there were no substantial differences between the numeracy scores of students in urban and non-urban schools, see Figures CNF6.6.1-CNF6.6.5.
