November 5th, 2022Pat on the back time? NAPLAN results suggest Vic is doing OK

Victorian students have achieved some of the highest NAPLAN results in the country, the state’s education minister says.

“These results are a tribute to the amazing efforts of Victorian students and their teachers, principals, parents and carers,” the state’s education minister Natalie Hutchins said.

“Victoria is again one of the top performing jurisdictions in NAPLAN this year – I’m so proud our Year 3 students achieved the best Reading results ever and ranked first in the country for both Reading and Numeracy.”

The 2022 national NAPLAN data released in recent days shows Victoria performed strongly at the primary level, ranked first or second in eight out of 10 domains -including all five domains at the important foundational Year 3 level.

Victoria’s Year 3 students were ranked either first or second in Australia across all five domains. Compared to 2014, the number of Victorian Year 3 students reaching the top two bands of Reading has lifted from 51 per cent to 60 per cent – and Victoria’s mean scores have improved in seven out of 10 domains in primary schools.

In 2022, Year 3 students scored their best ever mean Reading results, again proving themselves the strongest readers in the country. That means there are around 6,800 more Year 3 students now reaching the top two bands for Reading than in 2014.

This year’s NAPLAN also had the highest proportion of Victorian Year 5 students in the top two bands for Spelling. Compared to 2014, around 3,100 more students are now in the top two bands.

Victorian students are all-round achievers – leading every jurisdiction apart from the ACT on the number of subjects where our students ranked first or second in the highest percentage of students above the national minimum standard.