Abstract

In order to analyze the influence of migrant status and other individual, family, institutional and teacher qualification factors on student performance, SIMCE math test result of 80,751 8th grade (primary) students from the Metropolitan Region (Chile) were analyzed. Hierarchical multiple linear regression re-vealed the existence of four types of students (in order of performance: new generation, 2nd generation, na -tive and 1st generation) and that the migrant status is related to performance, being one of the most impor-tant variables.