According to a report published today, more than a third of students in 38 private educational institutions received grades of 19 or 20 in at least one subject in the 2024/2025 academic year. This report also identified 21 private schools that have demonstrated a similar trend for eight consecutive years.
An analysis of internal rankings, published today, showed that in the 2024/2025 academic year, over 30% of students in 38 private educational institutions were awarded a grade of 20 or 19 (on a scale of zero to 20). The data provided by the State Education and Science Statistics Department (DGEEC) does not disclose the names of these colleges, which account for 35% of all private secondary schools, nor does it specify which subjects received the highest scores.
Nevertheless, the analysis revealed that among all students in these 38 schools, 30% achieved grades of 19 or 20 in all subjects assessed in that academic year.
In addition to the 2024/2025 results, DGEEC studied the last eight academic years to 'map and track instances of very high internal grades' and identify possible 'recurring phenomena.' The analysis identified 21 schools that have consistently appeared in this metric since 2017/2018: over 30% of students received grades of 19 or 20 in at least one subject.
The situation in public schools is significantly different: out of 483 analyzed institutions, only three reached this threshold, awarding a grade of 19 or 20 to at least 30% of their students.
Although DGEEC data on public education is also anonymized, it details the percentage of students who received grades of 19 or 20 in all subjects. One such school, where 19% of students received grades of 19 or 20 in all subjects, was already identified in 2023/2024, whereas that percentage was 10% then. Another school identified last academic year was previously mentioned in 2019/2020, when 23% of students received grades of 19 or 20 in all subjects, which decreased to 16% in 2024/2025.
A recent analysis of internal rankings for scientific and humanities profiles confirms trends observed in previous years: private schools continue to show higher average scores compared to public ones, and grades are higher in annual subjects in both types of educational institutions.
In public education, the average score of internal final grades was 15 points, but for annual subjects not subject to external assessment, it rose to 17.2 points. In the private sector, the overall average score reached 16.8 points, and for annual subjects, it exceeded 18 points.
Among subjects with at least 100 enrolled students where 20 was the most frequent grade, the analysis identified five such subjects in the public sector (all annual) and 14 in the private sector, with only one of them—'Descriptive Geometry A'—not being an annual subject.
As in previous years, the best results are maintained in science and technology courses, followed by socio-economic sciences, languages, and humanities, as well as fine arts. The difference in the average score of internal final grades between private and public schools is greater in socio-economic sciences courses (by 1.7 points) and smaller in language and humanities courses (by 0.8 points).