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: St Marys
What St Marys District School could do with Gonski funding in the future
- More targeted intervention and support within our literacy and numeracy programs.
- Provide literacy and numeracy support from foundation to grade 12.
- Provide pastoral care and alternate programs from birth to grade 12.
- Increase support for kids during transitions from grade 6 and grade 10.
- Employ additional teacher assistants.
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.
