Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The following table sets out definitions of kinds of schools based on location.
Definitions of kinds of schools based on location | ||
Item | Column 1 A school is this kind of school ... | Column 2 if the school has an ARIA index value of ... |
1 | a major city school | 1, or less than 1. |
2 | an inner regional school | more than 1, and less than 2.4. |
3 | an outer regional school | at least 2.4, and less than 6. |
4 | a remote school | at least 6, and less than 10. |
5 | a very remote school | at least 10, and less than or equal to 15. |
(2) The regulations may replace a number (the original number ) in column 2 of the table with a new number. If the regulations do so, a reference to the original number in:
(a) the table; and
(b) the fractions in section 41 (location percentage for certain schools), subsection 47(2) and section 50 (size loading for very small schools); and
(c) the denominator of the fraction in subsection 47(1) (size loading for very small schools);
is taken to be a reference to the new number.