KINGSTON, Jamaica—Seventy-nine per cent of students exiting primary school in June 2026 have demonstrated mastery of literacy, while 75 per cent have mastered numeracy.

Literacy and numeracy competencies were assessed at the grade-six level of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) for the first time this year.

Addressing Monday’s PEP press conference at Jamaica House, Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dana Morris Dixon, explained that the definition of literacy used by the ministry differs from the global definition.