Commonwealth Numbered Regulations Commonwealth Numbered RegulationsStudents in quartile 1
(1) For subsection 38(4) of the Act, the number of students at a school for a year who are in quartile 1 is the number of students at the school for the year who are identified, in writing, by ACARA as being in the Socio-Educational Advantage quartile 1.
Students in quartile 2
(2) For subsection 38(7) of the Act, the number of students at a school for a year who are in quartile 2 is the number of students at the school for the year who are identified, in writing, by ACARA as being in the Socio-Educational Advantage quartile 2.
Note: ACARA identifies a student as being in quartile 1 or 2 by allocating all students in a school to a scale of Socio-Educational Advantage derived from the Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage and segmenting the scale into quarters. In 2013, the Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage was accessible at http://www.acara.edu.au.