The Department of Education (DepEd) announced on Wednesday that students’ reading and mathematical abilities have increased, according to results of the End-of-School-Year (EOSY) assessment for School Year 2025-2026.
“Malaki na ang ating pag-usad, ngunit patuloy pa rin tayo sa aing misyong isulong ang learning recovery sa bansa,” DepEd said in a statement, adding that the agency can be counted on to further strengthen policies and reforms that aim to raise the quality of education in the country.
According to the results of the Comprehensive Rapid Literacy Assessment (CRLA), Rapid Math Assessment (RMA) and the Philippine Informal Reading Inventory (Phil-IRI) for the school year, around 4.5 million students who began the year as struggling readers showed a higher degree of proficiency by the end of the learning year.
“Ang bilang ng mga struggling reader—o ang mga nangangailangan ng agarang tulong sa basic skills gaya ng pag-intindi sa tunog, pagbabasa, at simpleng pag-unawa sa salaysay—ay bumaba mula 6.7 milyon sa simula ng pasukan tungo sa 2.2 milyon sa pagtatapos nito,” DepEd reported.
“Grade-level ready” readers, or those who can independently engage with text, rose from 3.3 million at the beginning of the school year to 5.8 million at its conclusion.
Moreover, DepEd said that nearly half of the number of students in all levels flagged as “not or low proficient” in Mathematics showed improvement by the end of the school year. From 13 million students, only 6.8 million students remain under the category.
“We will continue to refine these interventions to ensure that the progress we see in the early years is sustained through the secondary levels, equipping our high school learners with the analytical skills they need for the future,” DepEd Secretary Sonny Angara said.
Despite the effectiveness of current remediation programs, DepEd said that in order to sustain momentum, this must be replaced by quality instruction within the classroom, alongside systemic reforms such as shifting to a three-term school calendar to ensure sufficient learning time.
