Alberta Diploma Exam Results and Participation Rates for Past Five Years

Annual diploma exam results and participation rates for Alberta schools aggregated at provincial, school authority, and school levels. The data includes counts of students writing exams, percentages achieving excellence and acceptable standards, average marks, and participation rates for cohorts completing their third year of high school. Data is suppressed for groups with fewer than six students and is provided by the Government of Alberta.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in student achievement based on the percentage of students achieving the standard of excellence and acceptable standard.
• Compare school-level performance based on the average percentage mark for diploma courses.
• Evaluate participation equity across cohorts based on the number of students participating in each diploma exam.
• Monitor changes in provincial education standards over the past five school years based on the aggregated annual reports.

Strengths

• Data covers the past five school years, providing a multi-year trend analysis.
• Aggregation is provided at three levels: provincial, school authority, and school.
• Suppression of data for groups with fewer than six students protects student privacy.
• Includes both school-awarded marks and diploma exam marks for comparison.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the Alberta education system.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta

Collection Method

Aggregated from diploma examinations administered to students in Alberta schools.

Time Range

Each of the past five school years.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 14:40:35.755257; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Alberta, Canada.