15
928
951
963
930
884
930
650
700
750
800
850
900
950
1000
1050
1100
Swan View
Senior High
School
Wirreanda
Secondary
School
Vic Uni
Secondary
College
St Johns Park
High School
Woodridge
State High
School
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.
1.
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