Achievement Of Curriculum For Excellence (cfe) Levels

10th December 2019

Scotland's Chief Statistician has today published statistics on school pupils' achievement of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Levels in reading, writing, listening & talking and numeracy. The statistics, based on teacher judgement, report on the percentage of school pupils in Primary 1 (P1), Primary 4 (P4), Primary 7 (P7) and Secondary 3 (S3) who have achieved the expected CfE level relevant to their stage.

The percentage of pupils achieving the expected CfE Level has increased slightly across most organisers (reading, writing, listening & talking and numeracy) and stages (P1, P4, P7 and S3) compared to previous years; the overall pattern of performance is similar to that reported in the 2017/18 results.

The proportion of pupils achieving the CfE level relevant to their stage is slightly higher in P1 than the later primary stages. For example, in numeracy, 85% of P1 pupils achieved Early Level, 77% of P4 pupils achieved First Level and 76% of P7 pupils achieved Second Level.

The proportion of S3 pupils achieving CfE Third Level or better is 90% to 91% for each organiser.

For each organiser, a higher proportion of pupils living in the least deprived areas achieved the CfE level relevant to their stage compared to pupils living in the most deprived areas (i.e. there is a deprivation ‘gap’) - for example the gap between pupils from the 20% most deprived areas and those from the 20% least deprived areas for numeracy at S3 was 13.5 percentage points.

The figures released today were produced in accordance with professional standards set out in the Code of Practice for Statistics.

To see the statistics go to -

https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/ACEL