NSW Government Schools by Socio-Educational Disadvantage Index (2014-2024)

Family Occupation and Education Index (FOEI) scores for New South Wales government schools from 2014 to 2024. FOEI is a school-level index measuring socio-educational disadvantage based on parents' occupation and education. The NSW Department of Education publishes this data annually via the Mid-Year Census to inform its Resource Allocation Model.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in educational disadvantage based on FOEI scores over a decade
• Mapping the geographic distribution of socio-educational advantage using SA4 groupings
• Evaluating the impact of policy changes on school-level equity metrics
• Benchmarking schools against regional or state-level FOEI averages

Strengths

• Provides a consistent annual time series from 2014 to 2024
• Includes a clear definition of the FOEI index and its interpretation
• Specifies explicit inclusion and exclusion criteria for schools

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Education Statistics and Measurement, Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation, NSW Department of Education

Collection Method

Annual Mid-Year Census conducted in August

Time Range

2014-2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 01:22:17.428980

Geography

New South Wales, Australia, grouped by Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4)