The latest assessments among students in their final year of French primary school revealed an alarming gap in basic skills
Recent national assessments reveal that French CM2 (5th grade) students, evaluated for the first time this year, face significant challenges in mastering fundamental skills in mathematics and French.
According to the Ministry of Education’s findings published on Thursday, less than half (46.7 percent) of these students show proficiency in “conjugated verb agreement,” and more than 50 percent struggle to “recognize the main components of a sentence.”
CM2 students are in their final year of French primary school and are typically 10-11 years old.
The findings signal troubling gaps in knowledge that continue to impact student performance as they transition into middle school.