February 2025

Preparing for NAPLAN: 12 - 24 March 2025

NAPLAN is the national assessment that helps teachers, parents and carers see how students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 are progressing in literacy and numeracy over time. 

NAPLAN tests what students have been learning every day in the classroom in their previous years at school and is linked to the Australian Curriculum: English and Mathematics.

Find out more by watching our latest video Understanding NAPLAN or visit our NAPLAN website.

Why are NAPLAN tests online?

Doing the NAPLAN assessment online means students answer questions that adapt to their performance during the test.

Each student’s results will be based on both the number and the difficulty of the questions they have answered correctly. This provides more precise and detailed information on students’ performance in the tests.

Watch our latest video about NAPLAN tailored testing or visit our NAPLAN website for more information.

Try our NAPLAN demonstration site

Our NAPLAN demonstration tests are a great way for students to try out the complete range of question formats available in NAPLAN.

You can encourage students to visit our public demonstration site.

Read our NAPLAN information guide for parents and carers

Read our handy parents and carers guide to frequently asked questions about NAPLAN. This guide also includes a detailed NAPLAN test timetable, so parents and carers know what to expect. Read the guide.

Need a replacement copy of a NAPLAN report?

If you need a replacement copy of your child’s NAPLAN report, you’ll need to contact the school where they did the test. If the school does not have a copy of the report, they can arrange for a replacement.

ACARA does not have access to individual student reports so we cannot arrange for another report to be issued.

New report shows students value civics and citizenship despite a fall in results

Our latest National Assessment Program report shows that Australian students continue to value the importance of learning about our country’s history and civic institutions.

However, despite this, the report also shows that students’ knowledge and understanding of Australia’s democracy, our political system and civic processes has fallen.

The 2024 National Assessment Program – Civics and Citizenship (NAP–CC) report provides results from the NAP Civics and Citizenship Sample assessments undertaken in 2024.

The assessments test students’ civics and citizenship knowledge and understanding in a sample of schools across the country.

Commenting on the report, ACARA’s CEO Stephen Gniel said, “Civics and Citizenship has always been a key part of the Australian Curriculum, including in the latest version.

"The results of the latest NAP-CC report highlight how we need to continue to support our teachers and educators with high-quality training and resources to help them effectively deliver engaging civics and citizenship education in classrooms across the country.”

Read our media release (PDF 125 KB).

Find out more about the 2024 NAP-CC Report and its findings.

Release of the full National Report on Schooling in Australia 2023

The full National Report on Schooling 2023 has now been published on behalf of Australian education ministers. It outlines the national policy for school education in Australia and reports against key performance measures for schooling.

ACARA progressively releases chapters of this report throughout the year in a commitment to support transparency and accountability by making information more accessible.

This release includes a new chapter covering government funding of schools, as well as information on school income and school expenditure.

Each section of the report includes corresponding data portal pages which provide interactive data visualisations to enable data breakdowns, including by state, territory, and equity group.

Read the full report and access the related data.

Listen to ACARA CEO Stephen Gniel on the Talking Teachers podcast

Our CEO Stephen Gniel sat down with the Talking Teachers podcast to discuss his passion for education and some of the important issues in Australian education and how to best support our teachers.

Hosted by University of Technology Sydney Associate Professors Don Carter and Jane Hunter, you can listen to Stephen’s interview on the Talking Teachers podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.