The MySchool website’s school comparisons use an Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage to enable schools and their results to be compared with ‘like schools’.
Concern has been raised about the reliability of this measure because it uses information about the students’ parents’ occupations and education levels that schools collect at the time of enrolment. This is missing in a lot of cases.
It suggests there could be a bias in the ‘like schools’ comparisons (SIM) where low socioeconomic government and private schools were unfairly compared with richer government and private schools.
Not quite clear where our valley schools fall!
The Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage (ICSEA) for schools in the upper Kedron Brook valley range from 968 to 1088 with no obvious relation between the ICSEA of most of the schools and how well they performed in relation to schools with similar ICSEA scores (SIM) or ALL Australian schools.
Ferny Grove State High School has a higher ICSEA (1068) than Mitchelton State High School which may reflect the students from the Samford Valley at Ferny Grove SHS. It leaves open the question of the performance at Ferny Grove State High School of the students who come from suburbs in The Grove.