Schools Queensland, 2012

Source: ABS 4221.0, released 20 March 2013, 10:30 am AEST

Key data
Full-time students (annual change): Queensland ......................................................... Australia .............................................................. 1.9% 1.4%

Of full-time-equivalent primary school teaching staff in Queensland, the female-to-male ratio has increased from 3.5 in 2002 to 4.1 in 2012. Similarly, for full-timeequivalent secondary school teaching staff, the female-tomale ratio has increased from 1.3 in 2001 to 1.5 in 2012 (Figure 2). Figure 1: Student-to-teaching-staff ratio (full-time equivalent), 2012

Teaching staff (full-time equivalent annual change): Queensland ......................................................... 1.9% Australia .............................................................. 1.5%
Ratio

Australian average

Student-to-teaching staff ratio (full-time equivalent): Primary Secondary Queensland .................................16.0 Australia ......................................15.5 12.4 12.0

14 12 10

Main findings
In August 2012, there were 1,715 schools in Queensland, of which 72.2% (1,239) were government schools and 27.8% (476) were non-government schools. Of the 1,715 schools in Queensland in 2012, 1,153 (67.2%) were primary schools, 253 (14.8%) were secondary schools, 246 (14.3%) were combined primary/secondary schools and 63 (3.7%) were special schools. Queensland had 747,682 full-time students attending schools in 2012, 21.0% of the Australian total. Of these, 66.6% attended government schools and 33.4% attended non-government schools. The proportion of full-time students attending non-government schools has increased significantly in recent years, up by 4.4 percentage points since 2002. The number of full-time students in Queensland increased 1.9% over the past year, compared with 1.4% for Australia. Queenslands full-time-equivalent teaching staff increased 1.9% over the past year, compared with 1.5% for Australia. For the 2012 school year, there were 51,295 full-time Indigenous students in Queensland, 29.4% of the total number of Indigenous students in Australia. In 2012, the full-time-equivalent student-to-teaching-staff ratio for Queensland schools was 14.4. This was higher than the Australian ratio of 13.8 (Figure 1). For Queensland primary schools the student-to-teaching-staff ratio was 16.0 and for Queensland secondary schools the full-time-equivalent student-to-teaching-staff ratio was 12.4. Queensland schools employed 52,232 full-time equivalent teaching staff in 2012. Of this total, 29,012 were employed in primary schools and 23,220 in secondary schools.

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Figure 2: Full-time equivalent school teaching staff, femaleto-male ratio, Queensland

Ratio 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Primary Secondary

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