Eligibility rate for a matriculation certificate among graduates: 69.7% - slight decrease

The rate of eligibility for a matriculation certificate among 12th grade graduates last year stands at 69.7% across the country, a slight decrease compared to the previous year which ended with 69.9%.
Data published on Monday by the Ministry of Education show that despite the stability among those eligible for matriculation in the Jewish sector, eligibility among Bedouin students fell below 50%, and among Arab students in general there was a percentage decrease among those eligible.
According to the ministry's data, the matriculation rate among female students exceeds that of students (71.8% compared to 67.2%), and that in the Jewish sector there was some stability relative to last year: 73.1% compared to 72.7% in the previous year. In state education, eligibility is 80.8% compared to 80.2%, in state-religious education 82.7% compared to 82.1%, and in the ultra-Orthodox sector there was a 1.9% increase in those entitled to a matriculation certificate - 23.2% of all students.
However, in the non-Jewish sector, the eligibility rate is 62.8% - a decrease of 1.1% from last year. In the Bedouin sector, there was a decrease of no less than 4% in those eligible for matriculation - only 48.1% of twelfth-grade students graduated with a full certificate. Among Arab students, there was a decrease of almost one percent in 63.9% eligible for matriculation Compared to 82.2%.
Among high school graduates, there was an increase in eligibility for five English units, from 37.7% to 39.1%, but in mathematics the figure remained at 15.5%. Among students in 4 units of mathematics, there was a slight increase from 17.6% to 18.5%, and students in 4 units in English decreased from 23.2% to 22.2%.
Of all students, 8.8% of high school graduates received an outstanding matriculation certificate (compared with 8.2% in the previous year), and 1% of all matriculation exams were disqualified on suspicion of copying (a decrease of 0.1% from the previous year). "
Education Minister Yoav Galant blamed the conduct of the system before he was appointed to the post, saying the data worries him. "The education system is stagnant in grades and fixed in management," the minister claimed. "There are excellent principals in the education system, but in recent years the Ministry of Education has not given them powers or resources."
According to the minister, the Ministry of Education was cut off from the field, which received conflicting instructions and was asked to "fill in large amounts of reports." The Minister added that "the quality of human capital is the engine of growth of the Israeli economy and technology. The State of Israel must ensure that the vast majority of its students will be entitled to a matriculation certificate. "