Specifically, girls score 477.5 points in reading, compared with 445.6 for boys, a difference of 31.9 points. The gap in Aragon is therefore wider than that recorded across Spain, where girls score 464 points and boys 439, although it is similar to the OECD average. The pattern is repeated in every autonomous community: female students achieve better reading results than male students.
The situation changes when mathematical proficiency is analyzed. Boys in Aragon score 466.4 points, compared with 457.2 for girls, a difference of just over nine points. However, Aragon's gap is relatively small compared with the Spanish average, where the male advantage reaches 14 points.
In fact, the PISA report shows that boys achieve better mathematics results in every autonomous community, although the differences vary considerably. Aragon is among the territories with one of the smallest gaps, while in Madrid and Murcia it exceeds 20 points.
VERY SIMILAR RESULTS IN SCIENCE
The differences virtually disappear in science. Girls in Aragon score 484.5 points and boys 479.7, a gap of just five points. The national report also notes that this difference in Aragon is not statistically significant and becomes even smaller when the effect of students' socioeconomic background is excluded.
The historical trend shows that the female advantage in reading has persisted for years. In 2022, girls scored 503 points compared with 474 for boys, while in 2025 both scores fell to 477 and 446, respectively. In mathematics, meanwhile, the difference between the two groups has grown from around five points in 2022 to approximately nine in the latest edition.
