Measuring the impact of technology donations

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Wirreanda

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Vic Uni

Secondary

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St Johns Park

High School

Woodridge

State High

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Loganlea State

High School

ICSEA SCORES ACROSS RECIPIENT SCHOOLS1

Standardised mean of 1000

for both ICSEA and IRSD

The highest ICSEA scoring recipient school (Victoria University

Secondary School) is more educationally disadvantaged than 71%

of schools in Australia. The lowest ICSEA scoring recipient school

(Woodridge State High School) is more educationally disadvantaged

than 95% of schools in Australia1.

Leveraging data points from ICSEA and IRSD, it can be estimated that

1,862 Australian schools (grades K-12 across 5 states represented in

the sample), experience similar levels of socio-educational and relative

socio-economic disadvantage as that of the sample1. ICSEA and IRSD

data indicates this represents 19.17% of all schools in Australia and

589,639 full time equivalent enrolments in 20221. This representation

of statistical demographics highlights the risk to digital exclusion these

schools and students are more likely to be exposed to.

While it is challenging to extrapolate the data of this report to determine

a number or percentage of actual students experiencing digital

exclusion (given outlined limitations of these samples), it would appear

that educational disadvantage in Australia is widespread in the K-12

system.

A deep dive into the six school’s ICSEA scores highlights the broad experience

of relative socio-educational disadvantage across the sample.

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Australian Curriculum, Assessment & Reporting Authority, School profile 2022, ACARA - Data Access Program

2.

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2) Index oof Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage 2016, 2033.0.55.001 - Census of Population and Housing: Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), Australia, 2016 (abs.gov.au)

(IRSD): Areas of economic and social

disadvantage at a suburb level

(ICSEA): A school’s relative socio-

educational advantage. A higher ICSEA

indicates a school has a relatively higher level

of educational advantage

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