DEPARTMENT of EDUCATION
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Our performance

Key performance measure
  2003-04 2004-05 2005-06
Students above the national reading benchmark (error margins not included):1  
Year 3 96.4% 96.5% N/A2
Year 5 95.2% 94.0% N/A2
Year 7 88.3% 88.9% N/A2
Students above the national writing benchmark (error margins not included):1  
Year 3 89.9% 91.4% N/A2
Year 5 90.0% 91.6% N/A2
Year 7 83.1% 86.5% N/A2
Students above the national numeracy benchmark (error margins not included)3:  
Year 3 93.9% 93.7% N/A2
Year 5 92.4% 89.2% N/A2
Year 7 80.6% 80.9% N/A2
Year 6 students achieving the proficient standard or better in the national science assessment (error margin not included): 59.3% -4 -4
Class sizes (average number of students):  
Kindergarten 20.3 19.5 18.9
Primary 24.6 24.5 24.4
Secondary5 24.2 24.2 24.1
Absentee rate (daily average):  
Term 1 5.92% 6.11% 6.40%
Term 2 9.24% 8.37% 9.35%
Term 3 7.27% 7.98% 7.94%
Overall 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 education6,7 92% 90% 90%
Parent satisfaction with school reporting processes6
Parents who believed that:7
 
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)8 410 392 468
Direct retention from Year 10 to Year 11 64.0% 63.0% 61.5%

Average primary school class size

Graph showing average primary school class size

Hours of community use of school facilities (average per school)

Graph showing hours of community use of school facilities (average per school)


1 This measure supports the achievement of Tasmania Together benchmark 4.1.5.
2 Results will be available once approved by MCEETYA (Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs).
3 This measure supports the achievement of Tasmania Together benchmark 4.2.2.
4 Data collected on a three-year cycle.
5 As secondary school students are not organised into classes which exclusively undertake a complete education program, the department has adopted English class size as a proxy measure.
6 Data collected from schools sampled during the reporting period.
7 Parents felt mildly, moderately or strongly satisfied.
8 Supporting the achievement of Tasmania Together 4.1.6.