National Assessment of Learning Achievement (ENA 2022): National Report
- Measures learning directly, with a national mean of 25.6 against 26.0 on the comparison measure and departmental means ranging from 21.4 to 28.3, marking differences from the national average only where significant.
- Finds girls significantly outperforming boys in eight of the ten departments, with the largest gap in the Sud-Est at 3.8 percent.
- Records sixth-year pupils averaging 14.8 years of age with a standard deviation of 2.4, a tenth percentile of 11.8 and a ninetieth of 18.0.
- Finds pupils aged 11 and under scoring best in all three subjects, which turns over-age enrolment from an administrative statistic into a measured learning cost.
- Cites the 2019 national sector analysis through UNESCO that 10 percent of Haitian pupils leave before the sixth year of basic education and 40 percent before the end of the ninth.
- Observes that the low-performing departments, the Grand'Anse and the Nord-Ouest, tend to show above-average dropout rates, so learning outcomes and retention fail together.
- Records preschool attendance varying significantly around a national rate of 75 percent, with the Ouest lowest at 17 percent, and situates Haiti against international comparators including Burundi at 76.6 percent and Gabon at 71.5 percent on one measure.
Haiti's national learning assessment for 2022, measuring what sixth-year pupils know rather than inferring it from enrolment. Its national mean sits at 25.6 against 26.0 on the comparison measure, with departmental means from 21.4 to 28.3, and the differences from the national average are marked where significant, so a reader can tell a real gap from noise.
The assessment finds girls outperforming boys significantly in eight of the ten departments, with the largest gap in the Sud-Est at 3.8 percent. Age is the other strong association: sixth-year pupils average 14.8 years with a standard deviation of 2.4, a tenth percentile of 11.8 and a ninetieth of 18.0, and across all three subjects the pupils aged 11 and under score best. That combination, a mean age of nearly 15 in the sixth year and the best results among the youngest, is the over-age problem stated as a learning cost rather than as an enrolment statistic.
On dropout the report cites the 2019 national sector analysis through UNESCO: 10 percent of Haitian pupils leave school before the sixth year of basic education and 40 percent before the end of the ninth. It observes that the low-performing departments, the Grand'Anse and the Nord-Ouest, tend to show above-average dropout, and that preschool attendance varies sharply against a national rate of 75 percent, with the Ouest lowest at 17 percent.
How to cite
Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (MENFP), National Assessment of Learning Achievement (ENA 2022): National Report, https://menfp.gouv.ht/#/documents/official