Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01213:reg:24
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01213
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 24
Character Range: 57409–60099

24  SES score

2011 SES score
 (1) The 2011 SES score for a school for a year is the number worked out using the formula in subsection (7) and the following information:
 (a) if statements of student addresses were provided for the school between 2012 and 2016 (inclusive)—the most recent of those statements;
 (b) otherwise—the oldest of the statements of student addresses provided for the school after 2016.
 (2) A number worked out under subsection (1) must be rounded to the nearest whole number, rounding up a number that ends in 0.5.
 (3) For each residential address represented in a statement of student addresses mentioned in subsection (1), the Minister must use the SES dimension score for the SES dimension of the Statistical Area Level 1 to which the address has been assigned, as determined in the 2011 Census of Population and Housing.
Note: Information about the 2011 Census of Population and Housing could in 2023 be viewed on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' website (http://www.abs.gov.au).

2016 SES score
 (4) The 2016 SES score for a school for a year is the number worked out using the formula in subsection (7) and the oldest of the statements of student addresses for the school provided for 2017 or a later year.
 (5) A number worked out under subsection (4) must be rounded to the nearest whole number, rounding up a number that ends in 0.5.
 (6) For each residential address represented in a statement of student addresses mentioned in subsection (4), the Minister must use the SES dimension score for the SES dimension of the Statistical Area Level 1 to which the address has been assigned, as determined in the 2016 Census of Population and Housing.
Note: Information about the 2016 Census of Population and Housing could in 2023 be viewed on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' website (http://www.abs.gov.au).

Formula
 (7) The following formula is to be used for the purposes of the 2011 SES score and 2016 SES score:

Working out the school's average SES dimension score for an SES dimension
 (8) The school's average SES dimension score for an SES dimension is, subject to subsection (9), worked out by:
 (a) adding, for each residential address represented in a statement of student addresses, the SES dimension score for the SES dimension of the Statistical Area Level 1 to which the address has been assigned; and
 (b) dividing the result by the total number of those SES dimension scores.
 (9) In working out an average SES dimension score under subsection (8), the Minister may include a residential address in the school's statement of student addresses that was not included in that statement, but the Minister considers ought to have been.