60Making information publicly available annually

60 Making information publicly available annually

(1) For the purposes of paragraph 77(2)(f) of the Act, an approved authority for a school must make the following information about a school for a year publicly available within 6 months after the end of the year: (a) contextual information about the school, including the characteristics of students at the school; (b) teacher standards and qualifications (as mandated in the State or Territory in which the school is located); (c) workforce composition, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander composition; (d) student attendance at the school, including: (i) the attendance rates for each year of schooling; and (ii) a description of how non‑attendance is managed by the school; (e) student results in NAP annual assessments; (f) parent, student and teacher satisfaction with the school, including (if applicable) data collected using the National School Opinion Survey; (g) school income broken down by funding source; (h) for a school that provides secondary education: (i) senior secondary outcomes, including the percentage of year 12 students undertaking vocational training or training in a trade and the percentage of year 12 students attaining a year 12 certificate or equivalent vocational education and training qualification; and (ii) post‑school destinations.

Note 1: The information need not be made separately publicly available for the purposes of this section if it has been made publicly available for some other purpose, provided that subsection (3) is also complied with.

Note 2: See subsection 4(2) for who may be taken into account for the purposes of determining the attendance rate at a school.

(2) The information mentioned in subsection (1) is the minimum information required, and this section does not prevent the approved authority for a school from making other information publicly available. (3) The approved authority for a school must: (a) make the information publicly available on the internet; and (b) make arrangements to provide the information, on request, to a person who is responsible for a student at the school and is unable to access the internet.

Note: The approved authority for a school may have obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 in providing information.