Introduction

This statistical publication:

• Provides information on national performance of school pupils in the literacy organisers (i.e. reading, writing, and listening and talking) and numeracy.
• Reports on the percentage of pupils who have achieved the expected Curriculum for Excellence level in these organisers, based on teachers’ professional judgements. 
• Covers all Primary 1 (P1), Primary 4 (P4), Primary 7 (P7) and Secondary 3 (S3) pupils in publicly funded mainstream schools, and all pupils based in publicly funded special schools/units.

Full results are available from the supplementary tables.

School level results (where available) are accessible from the School Information Dashboard.

An official statistics Publication for Scotland

These statistics are official statistics. Official statistics are statistics that are produced by crown bodies, those acting on behalf of crown bodies, or those specified in statutory orders, as defined in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.

Scottish Government statistics are regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR). OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics that all producers of official statistics should adhere to.

More information about Scottish Government statistics is available on the Scottish Government website.