Ideb 2025: Piracicaba rises 0.5 points in primary education and falls below the target in secondary education

What Ideb data says about public education in the Piracicaba (SP) region has advanced in the Basic Education Development Index (Ideb) in the early years of primary school, but performance in secondary school is still a challenge. The stage grade was 4.8 in 2025, below the national target of 5.2. ? The Basic Education Development Index combines student performance in Portuguese and mathematics with pass rates. The 2025 results were released on August 5th of this year — find out details about the index by clicking here. In the first years of elementary school, the index rose 0.5 points, from 6.5 in 2023 to 7 in 2025. In the final years, an increase was also recorded: the score went from 5.4, in 2023, to 5.6, in 2025. Understand the results below. ? Click to the g1 Piracicaba channel on WhatsApp For PhD in Education Cristiane Azevedo, monitoring of students tends to be closer in the first years of schooling. Despite this, as students advance through the stages, the challenges to ensure retention and interest in learning increase. "[The content] needs to be something that young people go to school to learn. So you need to take that content, but you need to do it in a way that shows them that collectively it is much more interesting", explained the specialist. ? READ ALSO: Águas de São Pedro is among the 44 cities with an excess of municipal guards in Brazil Heat wave starting this Saturday: temperature may rise and humidity drops in Piracicaba Death in rope jump: Court maintains arrest of defendants and schedules hearing for September Encouraging reading, use of libraries and computer activities Elementary school students at a public school in the municipality go to the library weekly. Children can choose books with guidance from teachers, who evaluate the choice based on each student's age and school year. “It diversifies their vocabulary, improves their reading fluency, they become more comfortable expressing themselves”, explained teacher Glauciany Bragiato. Early years classes also have access to the computer room. During full-time classes, fifth-year students use computers in Portuguese and mathematics activities. Reinforcement of pedagogical support in the city According to Piracicaba's Secretary of Education, Juliana Vicentin, the municipality has reinforced pedagogical support in the 48 schools that serve students from the first to the fifth year. Among the actions are simulations and meetings to analyze the results of the evaluations. "I believe that all of this provides information. You have to know who the student is who is not yet learning and why they are not learning", he stated. National performance Child holds a pencil while doing homework; cases of childhood anxiety grew 5 times in São Paulo. Reproduction/EPTV Ideb 2025 advanced in all school stages compared to the 2023 edition. In public secondary education, the national average went from 4.1 to 4.3, the highest index since 2005, but was still far from the target of 5.2, established for 2021 and not yet renewed. The result shows that progress among adolescents was discreet and reinforces the challenge of improving learning at this stage. According to the Minister of Education, Leonardo Barchini, the evolution is less significant and mathematics should be one of the priorities for the coming years. Between the states. Paraná led the ranking, while Piauí stood out in mathematics. Goiás has made significant progress in the last decade, and Espírito Santo has maintained a growth trajectory since 2019. However, more flexible rules for the approval of students in some networks, such as Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Norte, may increase the index without representing an equivalent improvement in students' academic performance. What makes up Ideb? The index crosses two pieces of information and presents results on a scale that goes from 1 to 10: approval rate/school flow (the percentage of students who did not repeat a year); Saeb notes, a Portuguese and mathematics test taken by students in the 2nd, 5th and 9th year of elementary school and by students in the 3rd year of high school. Brazilian and international experts argue that failure, when it occurs indiscriminately, considerably increases the risk of adolescents dropping out of school. It is more effective, for example, to implement learning recovery systems, so that young people can progress without gaps in knowledge. In short, it is not enough to pass the student to the next year: it is necessary to ensure that they are learning. VIDEOS: Everything about Piracicaba and the Region See more news from the region on the g1 Piracicaba page.