Irish 10-year-olds above average at maths and science

Irish 10-year-olds are above average at maths, reading, and science but their scores fall short of the top-performing children in the world.

The data emerging from a study conducted in 50 countries provides some comfort following the fall in the rankings of Irish 15-year-olds at similar subjects two years ago.

More than 4,500 fourth-class pupils at 151 schools were tested as part of the International Association for Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) exercise last year. The results show that Irish children ranked: