Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Levels 2024-25
Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) levels: 2024-25 provides information on national performance in literacy and numeracy, based on all pupils in publicly funded Primary 1, Primary 4, Primary 7 and Secondary 3 classes, and for all pupils based in special schools/units.
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Chapter 4 Achievement of CfE Levels in Gaidhlig
Information on the Gàidhlig data collected as part of the Achievement of CfE Levels data collection can be found in the methodology document. Numeracy and English literacy data for pupils learning in Gàidhlig are also included in the other chapters of this report.
1,587 pupils at Primary stages and 383 S3 pupils included in the Achievement of CfE Levels data are in Gaelic medium schools/classes.
The proportions of pupils achieving expected levels in Gàidhlig at primary stages in 2024-25 were lower than in 2023-24, but higher than in any other previous year for reading, writing and overall literacy.
Chart 12: Primary attainment in Gàidhlig decreased over the latest year but was higher than in all earlier years
Percentage of primary pupils achieving expected CfE levels in Gàidhlig, 2016-17 to 2024-25
At S3, 88 per cent of pupils achieved third level or better in literacy in 2024-25. This is up from 84 per cent in 2023-24 and in the middle of the range since 2016-17. With a small number of pupils, figures vary considerably from year to year.
Table 4: More S3 pupils attained the expected CfE levels in Gàidhlig in 2024-25 than in 2023-24
Percentage of S3 pupils achieving expected CfE levels in Gàidhlig, 2016-17 to 2024-25
|
Year |
Stage / Level |
Reading |
Writing |
Listening and Talking |
Literacy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
2024-25 |
S3 - third level or better |
89 |
89 |
90 |
88 |
|
2023-24 |
S3 - third level or better |
84 |
85 |
86 |
84 |
|
2022-23 |
S3 - third level or better |
96 |
96 |
96 |
96 |
|
2021-22 |
S3 - third level or better |
92 |
91 |
91 |
89 |
|
No data collected in 2019-20 and 2020-21 |
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|
2018-19 |
S3 - third level or better |
83 |
80 |
81 |
80 |
|
2017-18 |
S3 - third level or better |
97 |
97 |
97 |
96 |
|
2016-17 |
S3 - third level or better |
98 |
94 |
98 |
94 |
Pupils receiving a Gaelic medium education are also assessed in English (from P7 onwards) and numeracy (from P4 onwards).
A higher proportion of P7 pupils receiving Gaelic medium education achieved expected levels in English literacy and numeracy organisers than pupils as a whole. P7 pupils receiving Gaelic medium education performed better than the average by four percentage points in literacy and by two percentage points in numeracy.
Similarly, the proportion of S3 pupils receiving Gaelic medium education achieving third level or better was nine percentage points higher for English literacy and six percentage points higher for numeracy.
For S3 pupils achieving fourth level, the pattern was reversed with pupils receiving Gaelic medium education less likely to achieve fourth level than pupils as a whole. Compared to all pupils, those receiving Gaelic medium education were four percentage points lower in literacy and eleven lower in numeracy at fourth level.
Detailed results for pupils in Gaelic medium education can be found in Table 8 of the supplementary tables.