Napoleons Primary School has recorded some of the biggest improvements in NAPLAN scores in the region.
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Compared to their grade three results, more than 60 per cent of Napoleon's grade five students made above average progress in their reading, writing and numeracy skills.
Clunes and Sebastopol Primary Schools also made gains of more than 60 per cent in individual results in reading, while a similar proportion of Ballarat Grammar and Ballarat North pupils vastly improved their writing.
Almost 70 per cent Ballarat Clarendon College grade fives had above average gains in numeracy compared to their grade three results, and more than 60 per cent of Wendouree, Black Hill, Napoleons and Phoenix pupils had a similar result.
In the city's high schools, Ballarat Clarendon College was one of the top schools in the state, and in the region had the highest levels of above average progress in writing and numeracy.
Ballarat Christian College saw 69 per cent of its year nine students make above average improvement in reading from their standards two years before.
But the nation's year three, five, seven and nine students will not face NAPLAN testing this year after education ministers decided to bin the NAPLAN tests, scheduled for May, because of COVID-19.
The ministers said cancellation would help teachers and principals focus on student wellbeing and continuity of education, which might be being delivered online.
"Further, the impact of responses to the COVID-19 virus may affect the delivery of NAPLAN testing, including the operation of centralised marking centres and the implications for nationally comparable data if an insufficient number of students are available to do the test," they said in a statement.
The cancellation also means testing of the expanded online NAPLAN platform, supposed to start next week, now won't happen.
Victoria is among several states reviewing whether the standardised NAPLAN testing gives parents and teachers diagnostic information in the most efficient way.
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