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Hi Scroobal,
In case you are interested ...
http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=94&book=9781741756562
SOME of Adelaide's elite private schools are being outperformed by their poorer public counterparts.
The revamped My School 2.0, launched yesterday, for the first time includes schools' financial resources.
A comparison of private schools with statistically similar public schools has found that paying high independent school fees does not always equate to better national literacy and numeracy results than government schools.
The Advertiser can reveal some public schools - that have half the annual income per student of independent schools - are achieving NAPLAN results which are on par with, or in some cases better than, private establishments.
Rose Park Primary School surpassed one of the state's top earning private schools, St Peter's, in all areas of Year 3 testing as well as in Year 7 reading and spelling.
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This is despite a more than $10,000 difference in funding per student - made up of state and federal funding, fees, charges and other private sources.
St Peter's generates $20,314 per student in funding compared with Rose Park Primary's $9125.
They also charge parents on average $14,319 per student in fees and charges, compared to $684 at Rose Park.
Burnside Primary School outscored the elite Pembroke School in all Year 7 areas: Reading (608 to 584), writing (602 to 583), spelling (582 to 564), grammar and punctuation (591 to 569) and numeracy (617 to 588).
Pembroke receives an annual income of $17,700 per student compared with Burnside Primary's $8306.
The independent school also charges parents $13,436 more on average for their children's education than the public school.
In many cases though, high-fee private schools achieved above average scores, reflecting their resources and income.
Scotch College in Torrens Park scored substantially above, or above average in all Year 3 learning areas, with an annual income per student of $18,823.
While nearby Colonel Light Gardens Primary School, which has an income of $8330 per student, failed to reach Year 3 national averages in reading, grammar, punctuation and numeracy.
Association of Independent Schools of SA executive direc- tor Garry Le Duff said value for money in education should not be directly tied to NAPLAN results.
"Value is in the eye of the beholder. There is a whole range of reasons parents use to determine why they pick a particular school," he said.
"The fact they get good quality grounds, a whole other range of educational programs, sporting facilities and extra curricular activities to counselling support for students and better technology, parents will be attracted to these things.
"It would be misleading to say it's not value for money (as) NAPLAN is only one aspect of educational assessment - what about Year 12 results and International Baccalaureate results?"
Mr Le Duff also raised concern about the validity of "statistically similar schools" which compares "like" schools based on parents' backgrounds - not the students.
This is determined by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority.
He said as well as being co-educational or single sex - schools can have extremely complex cohorts including learning and behavioural issues or ESL - English as a Second Language - pupils.
South Australian Primary Principals Association pres- ident Steve Portlock said the results showed "students and parents are getting outstand- ing results from the public school system".
Public schools receive majority of their funding from state taxpayers, as well as the federal government, while private schools are mainly funding by student fees, donations and government contributions.
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