Preparatory Year funding
Introduction of the Preparatory Year
From 2007, a full-time, non-compulsory Preparatory Year replaced the Preschool Year in Queensland schools with Preschool no longer an official year of schooling. Pre-Prep educational programmes may be offered in association with childcare services affiliated with schools but do not attract school funding.
Level of State Government Recurrent Grant Funding
As the Preparatory Year is now included within the primary years of schooling, eligible enrolments in the Preparatory Year attract the full primary school funding rate.
Prior to this change, enrolments in the Preschool Year that were eligible for funding attracted recurrent funding at half the per capita rate for primary school enrolments. To have been eligible for funding, the students must have been four years of age or older on the day of the State Data Survey Collection undertaken in February each year by the Non-State Schools Accreditation Board.
Eligibility for funding in 2009
To be eligible for funding in 2009, a Preparatory Year student must:
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have been born between 1 July 2003 and 30 June 2004;
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if born earlier, have been assessed as having 'exceptional education need';
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be transferring from an equivalent formal educational program in another State, Territory or country.
Students outside the above categories, will not be eligible for funding.
The Non-State Schools Accreditation Board's audit program for 2008 included a check on Preparatory Year enrolments. Schools must hold all relevant documentation relating to their Preparatory Year enrolments.
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