The recently released annual report of the Productivity Commission provides some interesting insights into the nature of Funding Australian schools for the latest year of its analysis - 2017.
Some of the key takeaways include:
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The State and Territory Governments did the "heavy lifting" and contributed over $40 billion to school funding in 2017 compared to just $17.2 billion from the Federal Government
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The great bulk of the State/Territory funds went to:
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their own sytem schools which were in receipt of $37.1. bil from State Govts
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in the same period the State Govts only contibuted $3.4 bil to Non Government Schools
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The situation was reversed for the C/W:
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Government schools received $6.6. bil from the C/W government
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in the same period the C/W Govt contibuted $10.6 bil to Non Government Schools
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In spite of the claims that Non government schools receive favourable funding arrangements from the Government the important fact to note is that:
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Non government school enrol 34.5% of all Australian Students
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But only receive 24% of all government funding allocated to schools
The Complete Productivity Commission on School Education can be found here:
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/ongoing/report-on-government-services/2019/child-care-education-and-training/school-education
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