2019-2020 'State of Education': High school diploma eligibility up, standards lowered

• Published date: 05 October 2021
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The incessant disturbances to the school year and the differences between schools in the success of their online study platforms created discrepancies that forced the ministry to change its requirements, the report said.

The ministry lowered the number of requisite matriculation exams to five and reduced the amount of material in each exam.

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It did not say why the numbers for the 2019-2020 school year were only published in October of 2021.

The data was based on questionnaires filled out by students and was divided into three clusters: Learning and Achievements, Values and Educational Climate, and Perseverance vs. Dropout.

Some 73.4% of Israeli students who finished high school in 2020 were eligible for a diploma, up 3.7% from 2019.

According to population group, 75.8% of Jewish high-school graduates, 89.2% of Druze and 58.1% of Bedouin students were eligible. Some 69.4% of Israeli-Arab students were eligible – not including east Jerusalem, where the majority of students take the exams administered by the Palestinian Authority.

In the Jewish educational system, 84% in general high schools, 86% in national-religious schools and 24% of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) students were eligible.

A 2.4% increase was recorded for students who did the maximum level 5 in English language studies (from 39.1% to 41.5%). The percentage of students...