分类： Australian School Funding

This post is meant to collect all the miscellaneous rankings I do with the Australian schools such as income per student top rank, ICSEA top ranking schools etc.

Top 100 “Richest” Schools in Australia

Australia Top ICSEA Ranked School For 2018

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This is meant to be a fun one, so please do not take it too seriously. I processed the school financial data for 2017 just recently. Looking at the data, I thought I may as well do an entry for this.

A few things to note first regarding this, smaller schools require higher funding to run and this applies to the more remote schools as well. So Oak Valley Aboriginal School in a remote region with 4 students received funding of $280,387 per student. However, these schools are not typical ones in Australia and do not represent the average.

To get a meaningful and more representative look, I have chosen a rather arbitrary enrolment number of 400. I did run the lower enrolment number as well and the main difference being that there are more schools in the remote and regional area as well. The list actually does not look that different.

Ranking	School Name	State	School Sector	Geolocations	Total Enrolments	Income Per Student
1	Melbourne Grammar School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	1794	$51,645
2	Sydney Distance Education High School	新南威尔士州	Government	Major Cities	483	$48,109
3	Sydney Grammar School	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1876	$45,891
4	St Joseph's College	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1094	$41,397
5	SCEGGS Darlinghurst	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	920	$41,147
6	Christ Church Grammar School	WA	Independent	Major Cities	1651	$40,749
7	Ascham School	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1146	$40,591
8	Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School	新南威尔士州	Government	Inner Regional	594	$40,361
9	Cranbrook School	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1410	$40,348
10	The King's School	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1676	$40,022
11	SHORE - Sydney Church of England Grammar School	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1615	$38,584
12	SCECGS Redlands	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1549	$37,501
13	Wesley College	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	3031	$37,208
14	Ivanhoe Grammar School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	1913	$36,761
15	Melbourne Girls Grammar	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	946	$36,684
16	St Catherine's School	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1039	$36,145
17	Kambala	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	944	$36,095
18	MLC School	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1154	$36,092
19	Barker College	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	2103	$36,029
20	Ruyton Girls' School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	839	$35,995
21	Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Thamarrurr Catholic C...	北领地	Catholic	Very Remote	627	$35,885
22	Abbotsleigh	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1420	$35,711
23	St Catherine's School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	689	$35,378
24	Presbyterian Ladies' College Sydney	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1258	$35,347
25	Newcastle Grammar School	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	786	$35,135
26	Queenwood School for Girls	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	873	$35,106
27	Dubbo School of Distance Education	新南威尔士州	Government	Inner Regional	436	$35,035
28	Xavier College	VIC	Catholic	Major Cities	1961	$35,016
29	Wenona School	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1081	$35,000
30	Lauriston Girls' School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	897	$34,486
31	The Scots College	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1904	$34,168
32	Methodist Ladies' College	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	2034	$34,136
33	St Ignatius' College	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1576	$33,968
34	Caulfield Grammar School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	3082	$33,779
35	Scotch College	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	1883	$33,707
36	Ravenswood School for Girls	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1119	$33,636
37	Scotch College	WA	Independent	Major Cities	1478	$33,582
38	Trinity Grammar School Kew	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	1381	$33,499
39	Carey Baptist Grammar School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	2248	$33,494
40	Knox Grammar School	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	2890	$33,456
41	Brisbane Grammar School	QLD	Independent	Major Cities	1698	$33,345
42	Presbyterian Ladies' College	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	1412	$33,327
43	St Andrew's Cathedral School	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1205	$33,251
44	Hale School	WA	Independent	Major Cities	1489	$33,222
45	St Peter's College	SA	Independent	Major Cities	1396	$33,140
46	Pymble Ladies' College	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	2118	$33,121
47	Camberwell Grammar School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	1301	$32,829
48	Guildford Grammar School	WA	Independent	Major Cities	1058	$32,660
49	Southern Cross School	新南威尔士州	Government	Inner Regional	994	$32,636
50	Brighton Grammar School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	1218	$32,539
51	Trinity Grammar School	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	2084	$32,470
52	Newington College	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	2036	$32,464
53	Kincoppal - Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	884	$32,317
54	Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1160	$32,235
55	St Leonard's College	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	1426	$31,941
56	The Geelong College	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	1247	$31,892
57	Eltham College	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	597	$31,867
58	Brisbane Girls' Grammar School	QLD	Independent	Major Cities	1369	$31,721
59	Loreto Mandeville Hall	VIC	Catholic	Major Cities	1167	$31,633
60	Loreto Normanhurst	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1083	$31,458
61	Wesley College	WA	Independent	Major Cities	1309	$31,354
62	Toorak College	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	737	$31,109
63	Presbyterian Ladies' College	WA	Independent	Major Cities	1072	$31,102
64	Reddam House	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1112	$31,048
65	St Michael's Grammar School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	1203	$31,003
66	Tintern Grammar	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	804	$30,993
67	Haileybury College	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	3754	$30,993
68	Glenvale School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	579	$30,815
69	Mentone Grammar School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	1435	$30,621
70	Korowa Anglican Girls' School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	620	$30,386
71	Mentone Girls' Grammar School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	739	$30,160
72	Fintona Girls' School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	456	$30,125
73	Penrhos College	WA	Independent	Major Cities	1115	$29,896
74	Methodist Ladies' College	WA	Independent	Major Cities	1151	$29,866
75	Roseville College	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	935	$29,864
76	Strathcona Baptist Girls' Grammar	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	733	$29,669
77	The Kilmore International School	VIC	Independent	Inner Regional	437	$29,655
78	Yarra Valley Grammar	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	1214	$29,638
79	Firbank Grammar School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	1107	$29,525
80	Genazzano FCJ College	VIC	Catholic	Major Cities	1026	$29,432
81	Seymour College	SA	Independent	Major Cities	758	$29,378
82	Loreto Kirribilli	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1096	$29,254
83	Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	920	$29,225
84	Perth College	WA	Independent	Major Cities	1105	$29,005
85	Tara Anglican School for Girls	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	718	$28,822
86	Somerville House	QLD	Independent	Major Cities	1370	$28,705
87	St Vincent's College	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	676	$28,678
88	Anglican Church Grammar School	QLD	Independent	Major Cities	1792	$28,647
89	The King David School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	595	$28,596
90	Kilvington Grammar School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	723	$28,504
91	Pembroke School	SA	Independent	Major Cities	1529	$28,372
92	St Aloysius' College	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1242	$28,270
93	Peninsula Grammar	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	1282	$28,242
94	St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls	WA	Independent	Major Cities	1157	$28,211
95	Santa Sabina College	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1185	$28,178
96	St Margaret's Anglican Girls School	QLD	Independent	Major Cities	883	$28,139
97	St Margaret's School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	824	$28,125
98	St Luke's Grammar School	新南威尔士州	Independent	Major Cities	1106	$28,124
99	Woodleigh School	VIC	Independent	Major Cities	945	$28,080
100	Prince Alfred College	SA	Independent	Major Cities	1098	$28,068

The four government school in the list are all remote education or regional boarding school serving remote and regional areas. All the rest of the private schools are located in the major cities. Also looking at the list the per-student income drop rapidly from the top place of Melbourne Grammar School in Victoria which has per student total gross income of $51,645 to the 100th place Prince Alfred College in South Australia with a per-student total gross income of $28,068

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I came across this well-researched article Rich school, poor school: Australia’s great education divide done by ABC a few days ago. The basic conclusion is that private schools outspend the government schools by a very large margin.

Anyone visited many of the top tier private schools in Australia will have some first-hand evidence of this, massive Olympic size pools, auditorium, pristine sports ground etc. On the other hand when visiting government schools often the only new build from within the last few decades happened during the 2008 global financial crisis. No matter what people say about Kevin Rudd, his spending during the period on the schools are sorely needed and very much welcomed.

I did a series of blogs on the Australian school fundings and did a detailed analysis of both government and private schools operation and capital expenditure in 2016. You can find the articles as following

Part 1 explains the funding model of Australian schools and where it is derived.

Part 2 goes over the spending of both government and private school’s spending on the operational side of things in 2016.

Part 3 goes over the capital expenditure of both government and private schools in 2016.

To summerise, per-student spending on the operational side between government and private schools are roughly the same. However, on a per-student basis, catholic schools outspend the government schools to the tune of 250% when it comes to capital expenditure in 2016. Independent schools outspend government schools by 464% when calculating on a per-student basis. This is a consistent trend year to year, so if you look at this over a longer period of time, private schools completely smash government schools on capital expenditure.

Also quoting the above-mentioned article 15% of the catholic schools and 8% of the independent schools capital expenditure comes from both state and federal governments. This pretty much agrees with my analysis of the data for 2016. In 10.6% of Catholic and 10.1% of independent schools, their capital expenditure comes from either state or federal governments.

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Now that we have gone over who is responsible for the Australian schools and how they are funded. If you missed that blog you can visit Australian School Funding and Finance (Part 1) again.

Next, we will go over this in some numbers at a high level, so we will have a better understanding of funding amount and source. I have compiled the recurrent income for all Australian schools for the year of 2016, then further broken it down to government and non-government schools. I have broken down basically alone the line of major funding sources for the school, also added the capital spending coming out of the recurrent income as well. One thing to note is that state and territories also spend additional funds on capital projects for both public and private schools, these are things like complete new school, additional classrooms and other capital improvements.

	Number of Schools	Number Of Students	Total Gross Income	Federal Gov	State Gov	Fee Charged	Other Private Source	Income allocated for capital project from 2014 to 2016
All Schools	9480	3818362	$57.8 Billion	$16.3 Billion	$29.5 Billion	$10.1 Billion	$1.8 Billion	$2.8 Billion
Per School		403	$15131	$4275	$7728	$2657	$471	$734
Government School	6684	2488900	$34.2 Billion	$6.1 Billion	$26.3 Billion	$1 Billion	$772 Million	$140 Million
Per School (Government)		371	$13744	$2452	$10566	$414	$310	$56
Non-Government School	2796	1329463	$23.6 Billion	$10.2 Billion	$3.2 Billion	$9.1 Billion	$1.03 Billion	$2.66 Billion
Per School (Non-Government)		475	$17729	$7685	$2416	$6855	$772	$2003

There are some very interesting data for government school average $13,744 per student with 18 per cent of that coming from the federal government, 77 per cent from state governments and 5 per cent from private sources. The private schools average $17,729 per student with 43 per cent of the income from the federal government, 14 per cent from state governments and 43 per cent from private sources. As you can see 57 per cent of private schools recurrent funding coming from public sources, the majority of the private schools would not be able to operate at all without public funds.

I will also do another follow up to analyse the additional capital funding various of state and territory governments are spending on the capital projects where it is possible to break down on how much of it is spent on public or private schools. Once the additional capital spending is taken into account there is not likely big difference in terms of per-student spending between private and public schools. However, there is a large difference in what each school receives, for example, an inner-city primary school in the Sydney north shore area may get less than ten thousand per student, but another school in remote area NSW can receive five or six times that amount. This is also something I am interested to further exploit to found out how the funding is distributed and where they go to as well.

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As someone who has a great interest in education, particularly public education. School funding and finance is one topic you cannot avoid to be involved with. How the funding is distributed also reflects how the Australian political landscape move and shifts as well. It also gives the public an insight into the priority of funding and underlying political philosophy as well. How the funding works is also a practical maze as well with different formulas and multiple sources as well.

To start with this topic first I need to go over the composition and makeup of the Australia schooling system. Australian primary and secondary schools are run by either the public or private sector. Public schools in Australia is run and operated by each State and territories, not the federal government. The private schools are divided into two categories, independent and Catholic schools. School funding also derives from different sources that being federal government and state government grant, plus private sources. Within the private sources, there is also a difference in the type of private funding sources, it is made up fee, charges, parental contribution and other private sources.

On top of the what listed already, state and territories also fund capital project outside the school’s recurrent income, this includes both public and private schools. Public school’s capital projects are pretty much exclusively funded by this. Private school’s capital projects are funded in a mix of private and public funds.

As you can see already there are a lot of complexities in how the Australian schools are funded and where those funds are coming from. Typically the public schools derive most of their funding from federal and state government and with the private schools it is as straightforward, some get most of their funding from private sources where the others actually mostly funded by the public.

I will try to go into more detail and provide more data on this topic in the follow-up blog posts.

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