Our performance
Key performance measure
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2003-04 |
2004-05 |
2005-06 |
| Early years education and care |
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| Licensed child care services: |
|
| 0-5 year olds7 |
129 |
120 |
958 |
| 5-12 year olds9 |
-10 |
89 |
838 |
| 0-12 year olds |
-10 |
29 |
588 |
| Family day care schemes |
-10 |
11 |
11 |
| Licensed centre-based child care places: |
|
| Long day care |
3,222 |
4,076 |
4,941 |
| Occasional care |
858 |
919 |
737 |
| After school care |
-10 |
2,937 |
3,473 |
| Before school care |
-10 |
703 |
1,000 |
| Vacation care |
-10 |
2,594 |
3,114 |
| Total |
4,080 |
11,229 |
13,265 |
| School and college education |
|
| Students above the national reading benchmark (error margins not included):11 |
|
| Year 3 |
96.4% |
96.5% |
N/A12 |
| Year 5 |
95.2% |
94.0% |
N/A12 |
| Year 7 |
88.3% |
88.9% |
N/A12 |
| Students above the national writing benchmark (error margins not included):11 |
|
| Year 3 |
89.9% |
91.4% |
N/A12 |
| Year 5 |
90.0% |
91.6% |
N/A12 |
| Year 7 |
83.1% |
86.5% |
N/A12 |
| Students above the national numeracy benchmark (error margins not included):13 |
|
| Year 3 |
93.9% |
93.7% |
N/A12 |
| Year 5 |
92.4% |
89.2% |
N/A12 |
| Year 7 |
80.6% |
80.9% |
N/A12 |
| Year 6 students achieving the proficient standard or better in the national science assessment (error margin not included) |
59.3% |
-14 |
-14 |
| Class sizes (average number of students): |
|
| Kindergarten |
20.3 |
19.5 |
18.9 |
| Primary |
24.6 |
24.5 |
24.4 |
| Secondary15 |
24.2 |
24.2 |
24.1 |
| Absentee rate (daily average) |
7.40% |
7.41% |
7.89% |
| Students receiving a suspension during the school year |
4.11% |
4.22% |
3.90% |
| Parents satisfied with their child’s education16,17 |
92% |
90% |
90% |
Parent satisfaction with school reporting processes16
Parents who believed that:17 |
|
| their child’s school reports indicated achievement levels |
90% |
90% |
76% |
| their child’s school reports were comprehensive |
90% |
90% |
78% |
| their child’s school provided helpful information about their child’s progress |
89% |
89% |
87% |
Hours of community use of school facilities
(average per school)18 |
410 |
392 |
468 |
| Direct retention from Year 10 to Year 11 |
64.0% |
63.0% |
61.5% |
| Vocational education and training, and adult and community education |
|
| People aged 15-19 employed or in full-time education or training |
90.5% |
90.1% |
90.5% |
| People aged 20-24 in full or part-time education or training19 |
28.2% |
30.2%20 |
34.0% |
| People aged 15-64 undertaking VET |
11.0% |
11.8% |
12.2% |
| Women aged 15-64 undertaking VET |
9.7% |
10.0% |
10.4% |
| VET students reporting as: |
|
| Indigenous |
2.9% |
3.5% |
3.0% |
| Having a disability |
6.7% |
8.3% |
7.4% |
| From non-English speaking countries |
4.8% |
3.9% |
5.8% |
Successful completion rate of VET units
of competency |
81.6% |
79.0% |
79.8% |
| People aged over 16 undertaking Adult Education |
4.5% |
4.4% |
4.7% |
| Libraries, archives and online access centres |
|
| Number of Tasmanian publications or items added to the state record/heritage collections21,22 |
39,988 |
82,003 |
112,600 |
| Number of heritage documents and artefacts publicly available in digital format21, 23 |
9, 881 |
14,024 |
17,482 |
| In-person visits to libraries |
2,755,291 |
2,768,122 |
2,690,426 |
| Loans per lending library item held |
6.9 |
6.9 |
7.2 |
| Reference and information enquiries to libraries |
719,209 |
776,666 |
721,666 |
| Records retrieved by Archives Office staff for the public |
30,400 |
27,100 |
18,869 |
| Use of the Archives Office internet site |
2,157,280 |
3,110,359 |
4,946,372 |
| Number of registered users of online access centres |
59,429 |
69,740 |
76,878 |
Year 3 students above the national reading, writing and numeracy benchmarks
Year 5 students above the national reading, writing and numeracy benchmarks
Year 7 students above the national reading, writing and numeracy benchmarks
People aged 20-24 in full or part-time education or training
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Secretary's letter