The State of Education 2024

Schools and educational institutions that perform poorly in terms of educational quality and basic skills should follow the example of schools that perform well. This is what the Dutch Inspectorate of Education advocates, based on the findings in the State of Education 2024. Currently, the differences in quality between individual schools are too big. This is evident from several examples, such as the extent to which students at comparable schools have mastered literacy and numeracy skills and the outcomes of quality assessments the inspectorate performed at schools and educational institutions. A sample of 225 schools shows that more than 20% of the schools and institutions were judged as ‘inadequate’ by the Inspectorate in 2023. At the same time, a great number of schools do well.