December 3, 2025 — 8:06am
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Results of this year’s NAPLAN test have been released, offering parents a snapshot of schools’ performances in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and numeracy.
The Age’s interactive guide to results allows families to search their school’s results from this year’s exams, sat in March by more than 300,000 students from years 3, 5, 7 and 9 across Victoria.
The nationwide NAPLAN results, released in July, showed little or no improvement on the previous year, with large numbers of children still struggling with the basics of learning and nearly a third of students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9 playing catch-up in reading, writing, spelling and maths.
But Victorian students recorded either the best or second-best results in the country in 18 of the 20 categories reported, in what the state government described as the “best ever” NAPLAN performance by local students.
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Schools in Wednesday’s guide are listed in alphabetical order and not ranked in order of achievement. The scores reflect raw test result data and are not weighted for schools’ socioeconomic status.
Weighted data is available at the MySchool website, where parents can also now track their school’s performance over the past three years.
ACARA chief executive Stephen Gneil said the return of the progress tracking tool provided a clearer picture of how schools were tracking.
“The return of information on student progress, following improvements to NAPLAN, including assessments and results being available earlier in the year, shows how much the same students at the same school have improved since their previous NAPLAN assessments,” Gneil said.
“Student progress data provides the information to celebrate improvement in a fairer way that considers the individual circumstances of a school, as well as to better identify areas for renewed or continued focus.”
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The state’s Education Minister, Ben Carroll, said on Wednesday morning that the latest results showed progress for Victorian schools, claiming vindication for his government’s sweeping explicit teaching reforms.
“What the NAPLAN results show is this is a highly interventionist, sophisticated model on putting the science inside the classroom on how we get the best results for our students,” Carroll said.
“Our teachers deserve so much credit. They are the most important lever we have in the classroom.”
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