OECD's PISA 2025 results show a sharp decline in reading and mathematics performance among 15-year-old students across OECD countries.

"PISA 2025: student reading and maths decline sharply across the OECD" — OECD Newsroom · Society

What it means

The 's 2025 results show that 15-year-old students across OECD countries scored markedly lower in reading and mathematics than in previous assessment cycles. PISA is a triennial international test of 15-year-olds in reading, maths, and science, so this release is the official benchmark of how school systems are performing. The sharp decline follows the historic drops recorded in the 2022 cycle, which were widely linked to COVID-19 school disruptions.

Accuracy & sourcesSourced

The claim is the OECD's own summary of its PISA 2025 dataset, making it the primary source for these results. As an official release, it is authoritative about what the data show, though independent analysis of the full dataset may add nuance.

How new

Genuinely new: this is the current release of PISA 2025 results, not a resurfacing of older material.

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