Overview
- The government announced on Tuesday that Aprender 2025 showed 76.9% of sixth‑grade students at satisfactory or advanced levels in Lengua and 4.9% below the basic level, based on a census of about 750,000 pupils in more than 20,000 schools.
- Officials said participation hit record levels — 95% of schools and 84% of students — which the ministry says strengthens the national diagnosis of learning gaps.
- Compared with 2023, the ministry reported a jump from 66.4% to 76.9% in satisfactory+advanced reading and a fall from 11.9% to 4.9% in students below basic, a change the ministry values at roughly 10.5 points or about 80,000 additional students meeting expected reading standards.
- The ministry credited gains in poorer provinces and in the 'Escuelas Alfa' literacy program for narrowing gaps, citing reductions up to 17.6 points in the most vulnerable quintile.
- Mathematics showed more modest improvement with roughly half of students at satisfactory or advanced levels, and the full disaggregated Aprender 2025 data have not yet been posted online, which limits independent checks of provincial and subgroup results.