Search your school’s results using our interactive guide

Results of this year’s NAPLAN test have been released, offering parents a snapshot of schools’ performances in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and numeracy.

The Age’s interactive guide to results allows families to search their school’s results in this year’s exams, sat in March by more than 300,000 students from years 3, 5, 7 and 9 across Victoria.

As the education sector reacted on Wednesday to the publication of the results, Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) chief executive Stephen Gniel told radio 3AW that the ultimate goal of NAPLAN was to support improvements in educational outcomes.

“We keep doing the best we can and providing this kind of information so that schools and the broader community can really get behind education and support those kids,” Gniel told the station.

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He said ACARA rarely saw schools that “gamed the system” to improve results.

“We don’t see a lot of that … most people are focused on making sure we know how kids’ literacy and numeracy skills are tracking,” he said.

Gniel highlighted the performance this year of schools in under-privileged areas.

“Those are schools that are serving, really challenging communities … and they’re punching above their weight,” he told 3AW.