School funding (Invest for Success)

Invest for Success (I4S) is targeted funding to help students in lower ICSEA value areas. Therefore they should receive higher I4S funding. In answer to a previous question on notice to the Minis

https://documents.parliament.qld.gov.au/.../1398-2022.pdf

Park Lake State School, with an ICSEA number 1027, receives $299 per student.

Cooperoo State School, with an ICSEA number 1136, receive $419 per student.

These are two examples of far broader inconsistencies in how funding is allocated for I4S.

Why is this important… targeted funding is designed to help students go from good results to great results.

Question on Notice No. 144

Asked on 14 March 2023

MR M BOOTHMAN ASKED MINISTER FOR EDUCATION, MINISTER FOR INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND MINISTER FOR RACING (HON G GRACE)

QUESTION:

With reference to the Invest for Success School funding— Will the Minister detail in table format, the complete calculations on how the funding is allocated to each of the following schools, Coorparoo State School, Highland Reserve State School, Parklake State School, Oxenford State School, and Helensvale State School?

ANSWER: Investing for Success (I4S) aims to provide every Queensland state school with additional funding each year to support their planning and implementation of improvement initiatives. This funding is in addition to the standard funding schools receive each year.

The I4S funding calculation methodology was unchanged from 2016 to 2022 and used information about a range of student and school characteristics. This included student-derived Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (IRSD), an index created by the ABS and based on a broad range of factors of disadvantage including low household income, no internet connection, overcrowded dwellings, and poor English skills. Funding allocated to different schools will differ according to the student profile at each school, including how many students attract IRSD-based component of the funding.

From 2023 to 2025, approximately $290 million annually will be provided to Queensland state schools as part of the I4S program.

In preparing for beyond 2025, a comprehensive review of state schooling resourcing arrangements has commenced, which is part of the Department of Education’s strategy, Equity and Excellence: realising the potential of every student.

The review will investigate all aspects of school resourcing, including methodologies, procedures and systems, to ensure schools are well supported in reducing barriers for all learners so that every student can realise their potential.

Given the impending review of resourcing arrangements, the calculation of I4S funding was simplified for 2023. The new approach will see schools receive the same amount of funding in 2023 as they received in 2022, if they maintain the same number of student enrolments.

The new approach achieves the same funding by using the average per-student funding in 2022 for each school, and applying that figure to the school’s 2023 enrolments. The estimate of I4S funding that schools received is provided in the table at Attachment 1.