Day 1 2020: a snapshot
Check the numbers on NSW public schools - proudly one of the world's biggest education systems.


Our students
Location
- 74% of our students are in metropolitan areas
- 25% of our students are in regional areas
- 1% of our students are in remote areas
Cultural backgrounds
- 8% of our students are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
- 8% of our students have a language background other than English


Total students
815,000 students from preschool to Year 12 in our classrooms
- 71,000 students starting Kindergarten
- 497,000 students entering primary school
- 56,000 students starting Year 7
- 318,000 students entering high school


Our schools
- 2,216 public schools in NSW
- 24 new and upgraded schools in the back to school period


Our staff
- More than 90,000 teachers and staff dedicated to students
- 996 new teachers
- 50 new principals
- 996 new teachers
Scholarships
- 58 teach.Rural scholarships bringing permanent teachers to rural and remote public schools
- 198 Inclusive Practice in Education scholarships helping to support students with disability


Wellbeing
$88.4 for counsellors, student support officers & mental health resources in every high school by 2022.
Wellbeing in 2020
- 1,081 school counselling positions
- 183 student support officers start
World-class technology in our classrooms
- 850 STEM.T4L technology kits for robotics, coding, 3D printing, filming, VR and AR
- 100% access to Adobe, Microsoft & Google software with free, filtered internet and unlimited secure cloud storage
- 43,000 new student desktop PCs, notebooks, tablets & chromebooks
- 2.5x faster internet for more than 500,000 students and staff
Record funding delivered to schools in 2020
- $16.6 billion of total funding for NSW public schools in 2019-2020 (recurrent + capital)
- $1.25 billion of needs-based funding, $60 million above 2019
- $200 million school maintenance work blitz over the summer school holidays at 966 schools