Our year 3 to Year 6 students take part in the Progressive Achievement Tests (PAT's) at the beginning of each year.

While only a snapshot at one set time during the year the longitudinal data that it provides helps paint a picture of achievement across the school.

We are pleased to report that PAT results have remained relatively stable over the past 4-year period despite the major disruptions in 2020 and 2021 with lockdowns and long periods of online learning due to the Covid pandemic.

STAR reading, Reading Vocabulary and Mathematics vary by up to 0.2 of a stanine when looking at the school wide means across the 4 year period (2019-2022). Listening comprehension has a much wider range of 0.9.

When looking at cohort tracking from 2021 to 2022  across year levels and tests, 5 areas increased, one stayed the same and 5 areas saw a decrease. All cohorts saw an increase from 2021 to 2022 in listening comprehension, while all of reading vocabulary decreased over the same period (between 0.1 - 0.4 of a stanine). Maths and STAR reading were mixed.

The tests also give us the ability to identify patterns across year groups and track individual results.