EQAO Results Over Time, Percentage of Fully Participating First-Time Eligible (FTE) and Previously Eligible (PE) Students Who Were Successful on the OSSLT: Board and Province
The percentage of fully participating TDSB students who were successful on the OSSLT in 2024-25 is:
- 0.7 percentage points higher for First Time Eligible (FTE) students than the 2023-24 TDSB results (84.7% compared to 84.0%) and 0.5 percentage points lower than the 2024-25 Provincial results (84.7% compared to 85.2%)
- 2.3 percentage points lower for Previously Eligible (PE) students than the 2023-24 TDSB results (47.7% compared to 50.0%) and 2.8 percentage points lower than the 2024-25 Provincial results (47.7% compared to 50.5%)
Note, the 2023-24 TDSB results are 15.3 percentage points lower for PE students than the 2022-23 TDSB results (50.0% compared to 65.3%) because the number of participating PE students dropped from 6,771 in 2022-23 to 2,935 in 2023-24, which may have had an impact on the percentage of successful students.
Extreme caution should be considered in making any inferences in relation to the 15.3 percentage point decline for PE students as this decline is most likely due to the resettling of the system in relation to the disruption of service to the OSSLT. The 50% successful rate in 2023-24 is in line with pre-Pandemic percentages as is the number of students within this category.
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