Media Advisory - OECD PISA 2025 REPORT WITH EMPHASIS ON SCIENCE SET FOR RELEASE ON SEPTEMBER 8, 2026

TORONTO, Aug. 27, 2026 /CNW/ -- On September 8, 2026, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will be releasing the results from the 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA 2025).

PISA conducts an assessment every three years, evaluating the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds as they approach the end of their compulsory education. The primary domain assessed in PISA 2025 was science, with reading and mathematics as minor domains. The innovative domain was learning in the digital world (computational problem-solving). The assessment encompassed 83 countries and 8 economies, engaging 5,000 to 10,000 students from at least 150 schools in each one. In Canada, approximately 24,600 students from close to 900 schools across all 10 provinces participated.

A companion Canadian report will be released at the same time as the OECD report to provide further information on the performance of Canadian students.

Of particular interest to media:

• The assessment is administered once every three years. This regular assessment interval makes it possible to compare student performance over time. PISA 2025 provides significant information about how well students have been performing in science, reading, and mathematics.
  
  
• The Canadian report provides information on student performance at the provincial level and provides comparative results among Canadian provinces and other countries and economies. It also provides performance results for gender and language of the school system, as well as additional information on student performance across the three domains.

Preliminary program for Tuesday, September 8, 2026

3:30 a.m. EDT	OECD report made available online   www.oecd.org/pisa/
9:00 a.m. EDT	Canadian report made available online   https://cmec.ca/765/PISA_2025.html
Throughout day	Questions and written responses in English or French   Members of the media are invited to submit their questions in writing. CMEC representatives will respond to all questions in writing. Please contact Val Baravi for further information or to submit questions. Contact information is available below.

Note: CMEC representatives will restrict their remarks to pan-Canadian and international data. For remarks about the performance of an individual province, members of the media should contact that province's ministry or department of education.

About CMEC

Founded in 1967, CMEC is the collective voice of Canada's ministers of education. It provides leadership in education at the pan-Canadian and international levels and contributes to the exercise of the exclusive jurisdiction of provinces and territories over education. For more information, visit us at www.cmec.ca.

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SOURCE Council of Ministers of Education, Canada

Information: Val Baravi, Manager, Communications, CMEC, Cell: 249-288-9240, Tel.: [phone], ext. 298, Email: [email protected]