Publication - FOI/EIR release

Secondary school pupils who sat assessments in literacy: FOI release

Published: 13 October 2025
Directorate: Learning Directorate
Topic: Education, Public sector
FOI reference: FOI/202500472672
Date received: 23 June 2025
Date responded: 17 July 2025

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

Information requested

The number (actual and percentage of national cohort) of secondary school pupils who sat assessments in Literacy (Reading) from 2017 (SNSA) until the latest data point (2024 or 2025).

Response

Date	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24
Completion number (actual)	47197	48199	25717	29815	44,503	43980	40515
% of national cohort	91.2%	90.6%	45.3%	51.7%	78.1%	80.4%	68.9%

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