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West and South Zealand municipalities top the list: Here most people dump in Danish and/or mathematics

There was a big difference in how many of the students in the individual municipalities that did not consist of both Danish and mathematics at the primary school graduation exam in 2024.

Worst of all, it went in Lolland Municipality, where 27.9 percent of students did not pass both Danish and mathematics. However, Lolland Municipality is among the seven municipalities where the proportion has improved most over the past year. The proportion has improved most on Bornholm.

The proportion is also high in a number of Zealand municipalities such as Ishøj, Halsnæs, Odsherred, Ringsted, Vordingborg and Guldborgsund, which have in common that more than 20 percent of the students did not pass.

In Jutland and Funen things went better. Even in the municipalities with the highest proportion-Randers, Hjørring, Vejen, Langeland, Nyborg, Ikast-Brande, Ringkøbing-Skjern and Jammerbugt-the proportion was lower than the average on the entire west and South Zealand.

The proportion of students who did not pass Danish and mathematics was lowest in Allerød Municipality (3.3 percent). Also in the municipalities of Gentofte and Lyngby-Taarbæk, less than 5 percent of the students did not pass Danish and mathematics.

« The analysis emphasizes that socio -economy has a great impact on how children perform in school. So when the population composition is as different as it is around the municipalities, it also breaks through in the academic performance of primary school, » says Emilie Damm Klarskov.

In 65 municipalities, the proportion of students who did not pass either Danish or mathematics increased from the school year 2022/23 to the school year 2023/24.

In 29 municipalities, the proportion fell.

The municipalities Læsø, Samsø, Fanø and Ærø are not included in the analysis of discretional considerations.

Read the analysis here

The main conclusions of the analysis

• 11.8 percent of primary school pupils in the 9th grade did not consist of both Danish and mathematics in the statutory tests in the school year 2023/24. This is an increase of approx. 1 percentage point in terms of the school year 2022/23. Not since 2012 the proportion has been so high.

• The proportion has risen across all social classes, but mostly among students who have grown up in the working class or class outside the labor market. 15.3 percent of primary school students from the working class did not consist of both Danish and mathematics, and among primary school students from families far from the labor market, it applied 25.2 percent.

• The proportion is highest in Lolland Municipality, where 27.9 percent of students did not pass the graduation test. In the municipalities of Ishøj, Halsnæs, Odsherred, Ringsted, Vordingborg and Guldborgsund, a little more than 20 percent of the students did not consist of both Danish and mathematics.

Table: See the figures for your municipality

The table shows how large a proportion of primary school pupils in the 9th grade, who did not pass both Danish and mathematics at the primary school graduation exam during the school year 2023/24.

Municipality

Share that did not pass both Danish and math in the school year 2023/24

Difference compared to the year before

Total number of primary school students in the municipality

National level

11.8 per cent.

1.0 percentage point

Albertslund

13.2 per cent.

-5.7 percentage points

265 students

Allerød

3.3 per cent.

0.1 percentage points

305 students

Assens

11.3 per cent.

3.1 percentage points

310 students

Ballerup

13.1 per cent.

3.5 percentage points

495 students

Billund

10.2 per cent.

0.4 percentage points

245 students

Bornholm

13.0 per cent.

-7.9 percentage points

230 students

Brøndby

15.3 per cent.

6.6 percentage points

295 students

Brønderslev

9.5 per cent.

-0.1 percentage point

370 students

Dragør

5.7 per cent.

-0.2 percentage point

175 students

Egedal

10.9 per cent.

2.5 percentage points

460 students

Esbjerg

14.3 per cent.

1.2 percentage points

980 students

Favrskov

7.4 per cent.

-1.4 percentage point

540 students

Faxe

12.9 per cent.

-4.7 percentage points

310 students

Fredensborg

10.0 per cent.

2.0 percentage points

350 students

Fredericia

17.6 per cent.

-1.0 percentage point

425 students

Frederiksberg

7.6 per cent.

-0.7 percentage points

660 students

Frederikshavn

12.4 per cent.

1.6 percentage points

445 students

Frederikssund

14.1 per cent.

-1.5 percentage points

425 students

Furesø

8.6 per cent.

0.1 percentage points

405 students

Faaborg-Midtfyn

14.7 per cent.

3.1 percentage points

375 students

Gentofte

4.6 per cent.

2.4 percentage points

655 students

Gladsaxe

7.9 per cent.

1.0 percentage point

630 students

Glostrup

14.7 per cent.

0.4 percentage points

170 students

Greve

12.0 per cent.

2.1 percentage points

500 students

Gribskov

8.3 per cent.

-4.2 percentage points

300 students

Guldborgsund

21.6 per cent.

4.6 percentage points

440 students

Haderslev

11.8 per cent.

-3.3 percentage points

380 students

Halsnæs

20.0 per cent.

1.8 percentage points

225 students

Hedensted

13.4 per cent.

4.1 percentage points

410 students

Helsingør

10.7 per cent.

3.3 percentage points

515 students

Herlev

15.2 per cent.

7.5 percentage points

230 students

Herning

8.3 per cent.

-2.3 percentage points

660 students

Hillerød

10.0 per cent.

-2.4 percentage point

450 students

Hjørring

16.8 per cent.

5.3 percentage points

535 students

Holbæk

19.0 per cent.

0.8 percentage points

500 students

Holstebro

11.0 per cent.

0.7 percentage points

410 students

Horsens

11.3 per cent.

0.3 percentage points

800 students

Hvidovre

12.4 per cent.

-1.9 percentage points

525 students

Hoge-Taastrup

16.5 per cent.

1.7 percentage points

425 students

Hørsholm

5.6 per cent.

0.9 percentage points

180 students

Ikast-Brande

16.0 per cent.

2.3 percentage points

375 students

Ishøj

19.0 per cent.

4.4 percentage points

210 students

Jammerbugt

15.2 per cent.

3.7 percentage points

330 students

Kalundborg

14.3 per cent.

-5.1 percentage points

315 students

Kerteminde

10.3 per cent.

0.3 percentage points

195 students

Kolding

11.8 per cent.

0.9 percentage points

805 students

Copenhagen

12.0 per cent.

1.6 percentage points

3490 students

Køge

7.8 per cent.

-0.6 percentage points

515 students

Langeland

17.6 per cent.

1.0 percentage point

85 students

Lejre

8.9 per cent.

-1.3 percentage points

280 students

Lemvig

10.3 per cent.

-0.4 percentage point

145 students

Lolland

27.9 per cent.

-4.1 percentage point

215 students

Lyngby-Taarbæk

4.8 per cent.

0.4 percentage points

525 students

Mariagerfjord

7.1 per cent.

-1.6 percentage points

350 students

Middelfart

11.4 per cent.

1.4 percentage points

350 students

Morsø

14.8 per cent.

1.9 percentage points

135 students

Norddjurs

13.0 per cent.

2.4 percentage points

230 students

Nordfyns

12.3 per cent.

-1.3 percentage points

285 students

Nyborg

15.9 per cent.

8.8 percentage points

220 students

Naestved

16.8 per cent.

1.9 percentage points

715 students

Odder

12.1 per cent.

1.3 percentage points

165 students

Odense

11.9 per cent.

2.1 percentage points

1515 students

Odsherred

20.0 per cent.

-2.5 percentage points

200 students

Randers

16.8 per cent.

4.7 percentage points

685 students

Rebild

7.1 per cent.

0.2 percentage points

350 students

Ringkøbing-Skjern

16.0 per cent.

1.7 percentage points

375 students

Ringsted

21.8 per cent.

-5.3 percentage points

275 students

Roskilde

9.4 per cent.

2.9 percentage points

795 students

Rudersdal

7.8 per cent.

2.6 percentage points

580 students

Rødovre

13.2 per cent.

3.8 percentage points

340 students

Silkeborg

7.6 per cent.

2.0 percentage points

855 students

Skanderborg

10.2 per cent.

4.3 percentage points

635 students

Slice

9.5 per cent.

2.1 percentage points

370 students

Slagelse

12.5 per cent.

1.3 percentage points

560 students

Sun red

8.2 per cent.

3.6 percentage points

245 students

Sorø

17.3 per cent.

2.2 percentage points

260 students

Stevns

11.6 per cent.

2.0 percentage points

215 students

Struer

13.9 per cent.

5.3 percentage points

180 students

Svendborg

16.1 per cent.

3.4 percentage points

465 students

Syddjurs

14.5 per cent.

3.9 percentage points

345 students

Sønderborg

11.2 per cent.

-2.7 percentage points

490 students

Thisted

13.3 per cent.

2.1 percentage points

375 students

Tønder

14.3 per cent.

-3.1 percentage point

245 students

Tårnby

11.7 per cent.

1.1 percentage points

470 students

Vallensbæk

10.5 per cent.

2.6 percentage points

190 students

Varde

14.3 per cent.

2.2 percentage points

420 students

The road

15.7 per cent.

4.7 percentage points

415 students

Vejle

11.6 per cent.

1.2 percentage points

990 students

Vesthimmerlands

13.2 per cent.

3.8 percentage points

265 students

Viborg

11.8 per cent.

1.8 percentage points

890 students

Vordingborg

20.3 per cent.

-2.4 percentage point

320 students

Aabenraa

13.2 per cent.

-3.1 percentage point

380 students

Aalborg

7.4 per cent.

-0.5 percentage points

1690 students

Aarhus

9.5 per cent.

-0.2 percentage point

2375 students

Source: AE PBA. Statistics Statistics Registers

Note: Bounded to students who attended 9th grade at a primary school. After -school, private schools and special schools are omitted. Pupils in special classes at primary schools are also left out.