Massachusetts note: results from PISA 2015

Fifteen-year-old students in public schools in Massachusetts are high performers in science, scoring 529 points, on average – above both the OECD (493 points) and the United States (496 points) averages and comparable with some of the top-performing education systems in the world. Among the 122 countries and regions with comparable data, only Singapore (556 points) shows significantly higher science scores than Massachusetts (Figures I.2.13 and I.2.14). Students in Massachusetts also perform above the OECD and United States averages in reading, scoring 527 points, on average, comparable with some of the top-performing education systems in the world (Figures I.4.1 and I.4.2).