Brief description

**Data Notes:**

* NSW government schools by Family Occupation and Education Index (FOEI), as at Mid-Year Census, is conducted in August each year.

* FOEI is a school level index of educational disadvantage related to socioeconomic background. It has been selected as the basis of the equity loading for socio-economic background in the department’s Resource Allocation Model.

* FOEI measures the socio-educational advantage or disadvantage of a school’s student population, based on the occupation and education level of students’ parents/carers. Higher FOEI values indicate greater socio-educational disadvantage, and lower values indicate lesser socio-educational disadvantage (i.e. higher socio-educational advantage).

* Includes all hospital schools, Stewart House School and Royal Far West School.

* Excludes Aurora College, Palm Avenue School, NSW School of Languages and all Environmental Education Centres.

* Norfolk Island was previously included in North West NSW SA4 grouping from 2016. As of 2022, it is no longer under the jurisdiction of NSW and therefore not included in the figures.

* SA4 grouping is a geographical structure based on the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) 2021 - Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4).

**Data Source:**

* Education Statistics and Measurement, Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation.