Page 5521 - Week 14 - Thursday, 30 November 2017

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Ms Berry: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:

(1) The table below shows the numbers of NSW resident students enrolled in ACT schools, by each network, over the last five years. Please note that there may be slight differences in totals from previously reported figures for 2017 due to different extraction dates for data.

2013			2014		2015		2016		2017
Network Name	Public	NG	Public	NG	Public	NG	Public	NG	Public	NG
Belconnen Network	208	336	227	355	260	392	288	399	276	428
North/Gungahlin Network	1059	1351	1023	1364	1016	1358	950	1370	931	1334
South/Weston Network	343	1320	356	1308	359	1315	345	1320	341	1308
Tuggeranong Network	276	512	267	566	282	590	289	610	261	628

(2) The Education Directorate publishes actual cost per student data in its Annual Reports. The following table provides a summary of the cost per student as recorded in the in ACT Public schools for the period 2012-13 to 2016-17. The cost per student includes funding from both ACT and Commonwealth governments:

Average cost per student per annum in public schools:	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17
a. Preschool	$6,092	$6,357	$6,793	$6,891	$7,026
b. Primary schools	$13,704	$14,321	$13,837	$13,915	$13,632
c. High schools	$17,024	$17,789	$17,905	$18,111	$17,799
d. Secondary colleges	$17,700	$18,013	$17,547	$18,584	$18,184
e. Special schools	$56,192	$58,242	$61,192	$65,061	$64,955
f. Mainstream schools’ student with a disability	$26,259	$27,624	$27,347	$28,654	$27,132

The ACT Government funds non-government schools in line with the Commonwealth Schooling Resource Standard (SRS) and has funded its share of the SRS since implementation in 2014. The SRS is a needs based funding methodology.

(3) There are no funding arrangements for cross-border students under this Memorandum of Understanding. The ACT Government is compensated for NSW students attending ACT Public Schools through the Commonwealth’s horizontal fiscal equalisation arrangements.

(4) NSW makes no direct payments to the ACT towards the education of NSW school students in ACT schools. The ACT Government is compensated for NSW students attending ACT Public Schools through the Commonwealth’s horizontal fiscal equalisation arrangements.

(5) The ACT Education Directorate accesses the NSW distance education program for ACT students who are unable to attend the school they are enrolled in due to isolation or special circumstances (for example, travelling with family). The cost to the ACT is approximately $30,000 per annum.

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