The student body in the Canary Islands continues in the last positions of the Spanish educational landscape after the publication of the data from the latest PISA Report.
The PISA Report (Programme for International Student Assessment), produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) every three years, is the benchmark global educational assessment that measures the competencies of 15-year-old students in Mathematics, Reading, and Science.
Although the gap with the national average has slightly narrowed in some areas due to the country's overall decline, the islands are failing to recover and remain far from the OECD averages.
Last community in mathematics, second to last in reading
The Canary Islands are systematically ranked among the autonomous communities with the lowest school performance in the three assessed competencies.
In mathematics, they obtained 442 points and it is the subject with the worst performance for the archipelago. The Canary Islands occupy the last position among all autonomous communities, surpassing only the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. The gap compared to the regional leader (Castilla y León, with 499 points) exceeds 55 points.
Regarding reading comprehension, the Canary Islands reached 445 points, placing them in the second to last position, tied or competing in the lower tier alongside Catalonia and Andalusia.
In science, Canary Islands students obtained 469 points. Although this represents the best performance for Canary Islands students in absolute terms, the archipelago remains in the lower range, far from the OECD average and the Spanish average, both with 485 points. The Canary Islands occupy the 14th position in the ranking of the 17 autonomous communities (surpassing only Extremadura, Andalusia, and Castilla-La Mancha, in addition to the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla).
Generalized decline compared to the previous PISA edition
When comparing the current results with those of the previous edition of the PISA Report, the Canary Islands' educational system shows a generalized decline in the three evaluated areas.
The most significant drop is recorded in Reading Comprehension, where students from the archipelago lose 18 points compared to the previous report (going from 463 to 445 points). This considerable decrease accentuates the text comprehension difficulties among students in the community, making reading the competency that experiences the most severe deterioration in the insular territory.
For its part, in Mathematics and Sciences the trend is also negative, although with more moderate declines. In mathematical competition, Canarias loses 5 points compared to the previous edition (reaching 442 points), which consolidates this subject as its main weak point and keeps it in the national last place.
In the scientific field, the drop is 4 points (standing at 469 points), managing to remain the discipline with the highest score for the islands despite the worsening. Overall, the evolution of Canarias compared to the previous cycle shows that the adjustment of the gap with the national average is due to the global decline in results in Spain and not to an improvement in academic performance itself.
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