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

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