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WAToday homepage image - school aged population growth by suburb 2031-2041.

The number of school students forecast for every suburb in WA

Predictions show the state will grow by thousands of students between 2021 and 2041. Here’s where they are more likely to live, and the areas that will need the infrastructure to support the boom.

  • Holly Thompson

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Documents dated from April last year include 21 public education system targets developed by the education department.

Revealed: The secret performance targets for our schools

Performance goals that have been kept from the public for months reveal what parents really think about their children’s school.

  • Lucy Carroll
Year 1 students at Docklands Primary School and the new classroom phonics way of learning.

Phonic boom: The new, faster test for checking youngsters’ reading skills

Six-year-olds across Victoria will have reading skills put to the test this year with a new phonics check, which will help catch struggling students sooner.

  • Caroline Schelle
Independent schools have recorded the highest growth in enrolments over the past year.

WA families are increasingly choosing private schools, despite rising fees

Independent schools in WA recorded the highest growth in full-time enrolments nationally last year.

  • Holly Thompson
For Labor, the road to Parliament House runs through the Federal Labor Business Forum.

Seven in 10 high school students fail civics and citizenship tests

The latest results come amid a loss of faith in democracy and political institutions, rising antisemitic attacks and a breakdown in social cohesion.

  • Lucy Carroll and Christopher Harris
Rebecca King and her daughter daughter Maddy.

Girls lead exodus as parents choose private and Catholic schools

Thousands more NSW parents are choosing Catholic and private schools for their children amid an exodus from public education.

  • Christopher Harris and Craig Butt
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Bethany Catholic Primary School students Hazel Sobin, Marli Brennan and Joshua George with literacy leader Kirrily Wallace.

Catholic schools reap the benefits of ‘back to basics’ overhaul

An overhaul of how Victorian Catholic students learn reading and maths skills has been a success with many schools showing at least a 20 per cent improvement in numeracy performance.

  • Caroline Schelle
Kellyville family Prachi Patel and Chirag Anandwala, with their son Ruhaan Anandwala, have now changed school catchments.

Parents spent millions to secure entry to this school. Now they’re being turned away

About a dozen streets have been affected by the change to a popular Sydney school catchment.

  • Christopher Harris
Lisa O’Brien and Candice Walker in the Bay View State School tuckshop.

How this tuckshop gets kids to eat vegies when most prefer garlic bread

Data reveals the most popular days in Queensland for students to eat from the tuckshop, and what they order, as the push for healthier eating continues.

  • Felicity Caldwell
Ribbons attached to the fence of a Victorian primary school in support of victims of historical sexual abuse.

‘We failed these children’: Education department apologises to two child sex-abuse victims

The minister has said sorry after victims of a paedophile teacher were subjected to “shocking” failures by the Department of Education.

  • Noel Towell, Hannah Hammoud and Caroline Schelle

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