PISA Results Support Government’s Education Strategy, Mexico’s SEP Says

Mexico’s Education Ministry says the 2025 PISA results validate the government’s education strategy, which emphasizes teachers’ work, project-based learning and formative assessment.

In a statement, the ministry said the results reinforced the principles of the New Mexican School. Education Secretary Mario Delgado also reported that Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s director of Education and Skills, congratulated Mexican teachers, school directors, students and families on the international assessment results.

According to the ministry’s account, Schleicher pointed to improvement in science, the central subject of PISA 2025, and relative stability in reading. He said that maintaining learning levels and avoiding declines can itself represent progress, even when scores do not rise.

Schleicher also highlighted the expansion of access between 2015 and 2025. The number of Mexican 15-year-olds eligible to take PISA grew faster than the overall population of that age, which the ministry linked to the incorporation of groups historically excluded from schools.

The ministry said this broader access did not increase Mexico’s learning gap. Inequalities remain, it said, but performance differences in Mexico are smaller than the OECD average. Schleicher also identified lower levels of social segregation than in many European education systems, allowing students from different economic backgrounds to attend and learn in the same schools.

The ministry connected the expansion of access to the government’s National Upper Secondary Education program, which aims to create 400,000 places. It also cited the Common Curriculum Framework as a way to ensure that bringing more students from different sectors into education leads to greater equity.