The Education Ministry said declining scores in the 2025 PISA assessment should not be used to judge its current reforms because the students tested had not attended Pioneer Schools, the program intended to strengthen basic learning from primary school.
The results “mainly reflect the knowledge and skills acquired by students under the previous education model,” the ministry said in a statement defending its 2022–2026 reform plan.
PISA, the OECD’s international assessment of 15-year-olds, tests reading, mathematics and science. Moroccan students’ scores fell in all three subjects compared with 2022, with reading recording the largest drop at 18 points.
The ministry attributed students’ difficulties to “gaps that emerge during the early years of primary education and accumulate throughout their school careers.” It argued that the findings supported expanding Pioneer Schools, alongside remedial teaching, revised curricula and specialized teacher training.
The program’s impact on PISA results would become measurable only when pupils who had benefited from it reached the testing age, the ministry said.
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