✓ The Sydney Morning HeraldScience & Systems

Research reveals six-year learning gap in WA schools by year 9

Students from disadvantaged backgrounds in WA are six years and eight months behind their advantaged peers by year 9, a gap that widens as they progress through school.

Why it mattersThe growing gap shapes students' futures. Disadvantaged students fall further behind the longer they stay in school, making success in high school and beyond much harder.

AustraliaThis learning inequality is a feature of schooling across all Australian states and territories, but the research shows disadvantaged WA students have been improving slightly faster than their counterparts nationally in the past five to six years.

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