What has the school done with its Gonski funding?
Unfortunately, schools in Tasmania have not received their full Gonski funding due to a decision by the state government not to pass that funding directly on to schools, and to introduce its own cuts to schools budgets in 2015.
Despite this, the school has big plans for using their extra resources to benefit students.
Location: Devonport
What Reece High School could do with Gonski funding in the future
- allow for more small group needs-based instruction, focusing on literacy and numeracy.
- provide further opportunities for the most disadvantaged students.
- provide quality learning for staff to allow for collaboration to ensure they are doing what the best do.
- have flexibility in resources to provide experiences for our community allowing us to expand all of our students’ horizons.
- allow increased student involvement in extra-curricular activities.
- allow increased student involvement in sporting events.
It has a diverse student population of around 1,100, with a third of the school’s students in the two lowest SES quartiles. Indigenous students make up 6 per cent of the school population and a further 6 per cent of students are from non-English speaking backgrounds.
Katoomba High School, a comprehensive secondary school in the Blue Mountains of NSW, has an enrolment of about 670 students about half of whom are from low-income backgrounds.
