❓ Hon Adele Farina requests per-student funding data for South West schools for 2012-2014 and a projection for 2015. The Minister provides historical data via a tabled paper and commits to providing 2015 data after the February 2015 student census.
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I refer to funding for South West schools, and I ask: (a) for each school in the South West, when the total funding provided to that school is divided by the number of enrolled students, how much funding was provided per student for each of 2012, 2013 and 2014; and (b) for each school in the South West, when the total funding provided to that school is divided by the number of enrolled students, how much funding is anticipated to be provided per student in 2015?
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Answered
17 February 2015
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Minister for Education
Response time
117 days
(a) Please refer to Tabled Paper. The Tabled Paper shows the funding per student full-time equivalence (FTE) provided to public schools in the South West electoral region in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
The allocations shown do not include school-related costs paid for centrally, such as workers' compensation and teacher housing. They are not comparable to cost-per-student figures cited in documents such as annual reports which include all corporate costs such as central and regional office costs.
Between 2012 and 2014, where schools were provided with an FTE allocation for teaching and school support staff, this has been converted to an average salary cost.
(b) Budgets for 2015 will not be known with certainty until after the student census has been completed in February 2015. Information can be provided at that time.
The allocations shown do not include school-related costs paid for centrally, such as workers' compensation and teacher housing. They are not comparable to cost-per-student figures cited in documents such as annual reports which include all corporate costs such as central and regional office costs.
Between 2012 and 2014, where schools were provided with an FTE allocation for teaching and school support staff, this has been converted to an average salary cost.
(b) Budgets for 2015 will not be known with certainty until after the student census has been completed in February 2015. Information can be provided at that time.
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