Key findings

• Between 22 and 30 percent of students at each year level reached the provisional benchmark scores with Year 3 at 22%, Year 6 at 30%, and Year 8 at 23%.
• Table 1 shows the percentage of students meeting end-of-phase curriculum expectations in mathematics at each year level for the 2024 assessments.

_{Note: Percentages are rounded to whole numbers. Due to rounding, the totals may not equal 100%.}

• To support consistent comparison, the 2023 provisional benchmarks used to report when scores meet curriculum expectations have also been applied to 2024 results.
• There have been minor shifts of one or two percentage points between the 2023 and 2024 Mathematics results. In 2023, 20% (at Year 3), 28% (at Year 6), and 22% (at Year 8) of students are meeting curriculum expectations. None of these were statistically significant at the 95% confidence level.
• The box plots in Figure 1 show the spread of student scores at each year level. The box represents the middle 50% of scores, with the line inside showing the median (middle score). The whiskers on either side show the range of scores outside the middle band.

Figure 1: Distribution of student achievement on the 2024 national mathematics assessment, by year level

• Students at schools with fewer socio-economic barriers (as measured by the Equity Index, EQI), scored higher, on average, at all year levels.
• The development and administration of the 2024 Writing and Mathematics assessments have occurred at a time of changes to the curriculum.
• Overall, students in Year 3 were more positive about learning mathematics and their own mathematical ability than students in later year levels.