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(a)

Source:

Education Statistics and Measurement Unit, Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation, NSW Department of Education (DoE). Extracted from NSSC datacube in November 2020.

Notes:

• Enrolment data is collected each August as part of the Mid-Year Census collection.
• Data is full-time equivalent (FTE) enrolments, rather than headcount.
• Current (2020) state electorate boundaries are used. Changes to state electorate boundaries prior to the 2015 election changed the schools designated to be within this electorate.

Notes:

Enrolment data is collected each August as part of the Mid-Year Census collection.

Data is full-time equivalent (FTE) enrolments, rather than headcount.

Current (2020) state electorate boundaries are used. Changes to state electorate boundaries prior to the 2015 election changed the schools designated to be within this electorate.

(b) In accordance with current industrial instruments teachers in New South Wales public primary schools deliver 21 hours 45 minutes of face to face learning per week. Teachers in New South Wales public high schools are required to teach 1,120 minutes per week plus up to 120 minutes for sport and head teachers in high schools are required to teach 880 minutes per week plus up to 120 minutes for sport.

HR systems capture the full-time equivalency (FTE) of staff; however, the actual time teachers spent delivering classes is managed locally within their schools in accordance with the industrial instruments and on the School Day Factsheet:

https://beta.dec.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets?0;pdf_file/0006/264795/The-School-Day-Fact-Sheet-October-2016.pdf

The total (FTE) of staff delivering teaching, exclusive of non-teaching executive and support staff in the Wallsend electorate were:

These figures include full-time equivalent permanent, temporary and casual staff including classroom teachers, head teachers and teaching principals at all government schools other than Schools for Specific Purpose (SSP Principals under the Teaching Principal classification are exempted from delivering face to face learning).

(c) School funding arrangements have been subject to change over the period from 2011 to date.

Funding is provided to all New South Wales public schools according to the Resource Allocation Model (RAM) with 2016 being the first year that all New South Wales public schools had fully transitioned to this model. Detail is published at:

https://data.cese.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/resource-allocation-model

Budget allocations to New South Wales public schools were provided on a different basis prior to 2016, and as a result are not directly comparable.

(d) All project expenditure is published in the Infrastructure Statement within 2019-20 NSW Budget Paper 2 on a yearly basis once a construction contact is awarded.

Allocation of minor capital works funding to individual schools is at the discretion of the Department in accordance with the size and scope of individual projects.