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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 programs 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.

Preparatory enrolments are subject to the normal audit requirements of the Non-State Schools Accreditation Board.

Enrolment in Preparatory Year

As mandated under the Education (General Provisions) Regulation 2006, to be enrolled in the Preparatory Year of a non-state school a student must be:

at least 5 years and 6 months on 31 December in the proposed year of attendance at the school

Example "A child who turns 5 on or before 30 June in a year will be at least 5 years and 6 months on 31 December in that year

transferring from an equivalent formal educational program in another state, territory or country, if the principal deems the child to be ready for education in preparatory year, having regard to the child s attributes.

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