What is SES based funding?
The socioeconomic status (SES) funding model is a better way of measuring the ability of a non-government school community the families of students at the school to support their school. The SES approach measures the socio-economic status of the parents whose children are enrolled at a school. Rather than asking parents intrusive questions about their income and other personal information the SES model links student addresses with current Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Census data. An SES Index is then applied to obtain an SES score for each school. Schools which draw students from areas of predominantly high SES will receive lower levels of Commonwealth funding than schools which draw from areas of average or low SES. A socioeconomic index can be made up of a number of variables representing various aspects of a persons social position. The SES Index used for non-government school funding includes only three dimensions income, education and occupation. SES funding in 2000 dolla
