My Government wants to make sure that our children are receiving a world-class education in our public schools, each child deserving an education that helps them reach their fullest possible potential in life.
The 2025 NAPLAN National Report was released on the 30th of June, showing positive progress, with more still to be done to lift literacy and numeracy outcomes across the state.
This year, students in Years 5,7 and 9 were the first cohort to complete a second NAPLAN cycle under the new proficiency levels first introduced in 2023.
For NSW schools, results in 2025 are stable compared to previous years, with students showing strengths in certain areas including: Year 5 reading increasing 4.9 percentage points, grammar and punctuation up 7.4, spelling up 6.3, with all in strong and exceeding, this being compared to the same cohorts Year 3 results in 2023.
Year 7 spelling up 3.6 percentage points in strong and exceeding compared to the same 2025 cohort in year 5.
Today's results show positive signs for many students in NSW, exceeding the national average in writing, reading, grammar and punctuation, spelling, and numeracy.
The results also show where continued and consistent support is required, particularly in Years 5, 7 and 9 writing and Years 7 and 9 reading.
My government is committed to the work of rebuilding public education and lifting outcomes across NSW.
Among our most significant reforms has been our work to address the teacher shortage, working to ensure that every classroom in NSW has a dedicated teacher.
We are doing this by lifting wages, improving job security, reducing workload and improving the classroom environment by banning mobile phones and restoring principals' authority to manage student behaviour.
This work has seen teacher vacancies drop 40 per cent, their lowest level in five years, and the number of merged and cancelled classes halved.
The Better and Fairer Schools Agreement my government signed with the Commonwealth earlier this year ensures every public school is on a path to getting 100% of the Schooling Resource Standard. The additional funding going directly towards programs and reforms that will lift student outcomes.
Our continued work to lift student outcomes also includes; Delivering the Year 1 Phonic Screening Check with targeting support for schools to ensure students obtain foundational literacy skills;
Introducing system-wide literacy and numeracy targets with ambitious goals to improve student outcomes Boosting the Small Group Tuition Program to provide more targeted literacy and numeracy support;
Building teachers' capacity to deliver the knowledge and skills rich K-12 English and Mathematics improved syllabuses through explicit teaching;
The explicit and systematic teaching of writing is a key focus in all new NSW syllabuses to better support all NSW students.
There is more to do, but this is all part of our plan to build a better NSW for all of us, providing children with the best possible start in life.
