Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Public school exodus continues as parents go private despite cost-of-living pressures

 Mount Annan Christian College in Sydney's south-west is a construction zone as well as a busy school.

Twelve new classrooms are being built and the co-educational school has a waiting list that has expanded to include students still in the womb.

"We've had someone who just put their child's name down, yet their child's not born yet," principal Gabi Korocz said.

"So the mother is expecting — and that's just indicative of the demand we have here."

The latest national Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) schools data shows this appetite is replicated across the outer suburbs of Australia's biggest cities.

Read More: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-15/abs-data-shows-public-private-school-enrolments-divide/101976204



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