The newly released Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025, conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), shows students in China's Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Zhejiang (B-S-J-Z) group and Singapore outperforming their peers globally.
The 2025 ranking was the largest assessment to date. It evaluated 760,000 15-year-old students across 91 countries and economies in science, reading, mathematics, and computational problem-solving.
The PISA results showed B-S-J-Z students scored an average of 612 points in mathematics, the highest among all participating education systems.
Singapore followed with 563 points, while the OECD average sat at just 463 points. Macau, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong closely trailed the top two.
B-S-J-Z students also topped the global science ranking with an average score of 597 points.
