NAPLAN 2024 Community Report
The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is an annual national assessment for all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9.
There are four NAPLAN proficiency standards at each year level:
- Exceeding | the student’s result exceeds expectations at the time of testing.
- Strong | the student’s result meets challenging but reasonable expectations at the time of testing.
- Developing | the student’s result indicates that they are working towards expectations at the time of testing.
- Needs additional support | the student’s result indicates that they are not achieving the learning outcomes expected at the time of testing. They are likely to need additional support to progress satisfactorily.
Mercedes College Performance
At Mercedes College, we use NAPLAN results to track student performance. We look at individual students and their proficiency level, and use this data together with other information to plan any additional support needed for the student to progress in their schooling.
We also consider the proportion of students in each proficiency level.
Achievement in the upper two levels is an indication that students are demonstrating or exceeding expectations at the time of testing. Approximately 70 per cent of students nationally will achieve the upper two levels. The following table shows the percentage of Mercedes College students who have achieved in each of the upper two levels, all of which meet or exceed this expectation.
| Year 3 | Year 5 | Year 7 | Year 9 | |
| Grammar and Punctuation | 75.0% | 82.9% | 72.1% | 73.3% |
| Numeracy | 79.5% | 81.3% | 85.7% | 86.7% |
| Reading | 84.1% | 81.3% | 82.9% | 80.5% |
| Spelling | 70.5% | 74.3% | 79.8% | 82.6% |
| Writing | 97.7% | 84.3% | 73.3% | 71.4% |
For further details about how Mercedes College compares the performance of successive cohorts to assess the impact of internal initiatives, and for comparative data against other Catholic schools (thanks to Catholic Education South Australia), please download this document.
