The gross rate of the Region only grows one point, compared to the national historical maximum
Murcian ESO and Baccalaureate students improved their results in the course of confinement (2019-2020), but in a much lower proportion than the extraordinary success rates achieved in the rest of Spain. The graduation rates of ESO and Baccalaureate students in the Region were the second lowest in Spain, only ahead of students in Ceuta and Melilla. Students graduated from Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) and from the Baccalaureate stage in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic set a historical record in Spain, according to the ‘Non-university Education Statistics’, relative to the academic results of the course 2019-2020, published this Friday.
Specifically, in the course of confinement, the number of students who at the end of ESO was proposed for the title of Graduate in ESO represents a crude rate of 84%, with respect to the population that has the theoretical age to finish this educational level, which is which is 5.3 points more than the previous year 2018-2019 (78.8%), and a maximum in the historical series since the introduction of this teaching in Spain. Some marks very far from the rates registered in the Region, where students are even below the national rate for the 2018 academic year. In the Community, the number of students that at the end of ESO was proposed for the title of Graduate in ESO with respect to of the population that has the theoretical age to finish this educational level represents a gross rate of only 78.6%, just one point more than the previous year.
It should be remembered that the Ministry of Education, as did others of the PP, decided not to make the evaluation and promotion criteria more flexible to compensate for the inconveniences of the pandemic, as other communities did. By autonomous communities, significant differences are observed, and the highest value of the rate corresponds to Asturias (89.8%); Another eight regions exceed 85% (Basque Country, Galicia, Extremadura, Cantabria, Navarra, Catalonia, Castilla y León and Madrid), while the lowest values are registered in Ceuta (72%), Melilla (70%) and Murcia .
Regarding high school graduates, the statistics published by the department headed by Pilar Alegría show that the gross rate of the population completing high school is 61% (+5.9 points higher than the previous year) , which represents another maximum in the historical series of this indicator. In this section, the Region achieves average results, with a rate of 60.7%. However, the percentage of second year ordinary high school students that ends up is again bad for the Region, again with the second lowest rate (89%) in Spain, and only ahead of Melilla.
How many students passed the course?
Regarding the students who passed a course in ESO in 2019-2020, the report indicates that the percentage varies between 93.1% in the fourth year and 94.2% in the first year, while in Baccalaureate the percentage of those who promote The first year is 92.1% and in the second year, the one that ends, it is 92.4%. The Ministry of Education highlights that these percentages represent a “significant” increase compared to the previous year, varying from 4.5 percentage points more in the first year of ESO to 9.1 points more in the second year of Baccalaureate.
The growth was greater in public centers, where they varied from 5.5 points more in the first year of ESO to 10.8 in the second year of Baccalaureate, although the promotion percentages continued to be higher in private centers for all the courses of teaching. By sex, it is observed that the percentages of women who promote a course, both in ESO and in Baccalaureate, are always higher than those of men, varying between 2.0 points of difference in the first year of ESO and 3, 2 points of second and fourth of ESO and second of Baccalaureate.
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