Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION REGULATIONS 2023 (F2023L01020) - REG 18

Socio-educational disadvantage loading--students in quartile 1

             (1)  For the purposes of subsection 38(4) of the Act, the number of students at a school for a year who are in quartile 1 is the number worked out using the following formula:

Socio-educational disadvantage loading--students in quartile 2

             (2)  For the purposes of subsection 38(7) of the Act, the number of students at a school for a year who are in quartile 2 is the number worked out using the following formula:

Low English proficiency loading

             (3)  For the purposes of subsection 39(2) of the Act, the number of students at a school for a year who have low English proficiency is the number worked out using the following formula:

Definitions

             (4)  In this section:

"ACARA low English proficiency students for the school for the year " means the number of students at the school for the year identified by ACARA as disadvantaged language background other than English students.

Note 1:       ACARA identifies a student as a disadvantaged language background other than English student if:

(a)    ACARA identifies the student as having a language background other than English; and

(b)    at least one of the student's parents completed school education only to year 9 (or equivalent) or below.

Note 2:       ACARA uses the definitions in the Data Standards Manual: Student Background Characteristics to determine language background and school education.

ACARA quartile 1 students for the school for the year means the number of students at the school for the year identified by ACARA as being in the lowest Socio-Educational Advantage quarter.

Note:          ACARA identifies a student as being in a quarter by allocating all students in a school to a scale of socio-educational advantage and segmenting the scale into quarters. Information about socio-educational advantage could in 2023 be viewed on ACARA's website (http://www.acara.edu.au).

ACARA quartile 2 students for the school for the year means the number of students at the school for the year identified by ACARA as being in the second lowest Socio-Educational Advantage quarter.

"total ACARA students for the school for the year " means the number of students at the school for the year as identified by ACARA.

Note:          The total ACARA students for the school for the year may be different from the number of students at the school for the year worked out under section 16 of the Act.