Toeic Performance, Program-Level Disparities, and Career Readiness of Aviation Students: School Year 2025–2026

This descriptive-comparative study examined the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) Listening and Reading performance of 1,367 students at an aeronautical school in Parañaque for School Year 2025–2026, drawing on the institutional management report produced by Princeton Assessments and Training, Inc., the aeronautical school's TOEIC partner since 2014. The study compared results across year level, testing point, and academic program, and evaluated program averages against the score floors that Japan-based partner companies (ANA, JASCO, and KGS) and the United States-based partner NORDAM require for international internship placement. Results showed an institutional mean score of 762, placing the aeronautical school at CEFR B1, one band below the college's own B2 benchmark, with reading trailing listening by a wide margin. The academic program explained far more of the score variation than year level: BS Aeronautical Engineering averaged 890, while the Aircraft Technician Course averaged 593, a gap exceeding two standard deviations. Only two of five technical programs met the 800-point Japan-partner floor at the mean, and none met NORDAM's 900-point floor. Nearly half of all test-takers (48 percent) fell below the CEFR B2 benchmark. A comparison of the December 2025 and March 2026 testing sub-periods showed a 71-point institutional gap driven mainly by a shift in test-taker composition, since March was a smaller session concentrated in the two lowest-scoring technical programs, not a genuine decline in ability. The study recommends program-specific reading interventions, earlier placement into support programs, and closer alignment between English instruction and each program's workplace register.