The Student Attendance (STATS) Term 3 2024 collection is now open. Declare your data by Friday 25 October 2024.

Sign in to SchoolsHUB now to begin, or visit the STATS support and help page for more information.

The 2025 NCCD Guidelines have been updated with minor technical updates to ensure the Guidelines contain correct and accurate information and hyperlinks. There are no changes to the 2025 NCCD process. The 2025 Guidelines are now available on the NCCD Portal at 2025 NCCD Guidelines.

The NCCD Quick Guide has also been updated to reflect the change in year and is available on the NCCD Portal at NCCD Quick Guide.

The NCCD Guidelines are the authoritative guide to the NCCD and should be referred to when technical information and advice are required. They provide comprehensive information about the NCCD, including how to submit NCCD information, which students must be counted and what information must be provided on each student.

The NCCD Quick Guide provides the essential information schools and approved authorities need to know in an abbreviated version of the Guidelines.

Visit the NCCD Portal to download the 2025 NCCD Guidelines and the NCCD Quick Guide.

For any questions, please email NCCDSupport@education.gov.au.

Every year the Department of Education (the department) uses CTC scores to determine the discount the Australian Government applies to a school’s base funding. While we aim to release these scores as early as possible to support your school and community plan effectively, calculations are not completed and published until mid-November each year.

We are on track to publish 2025 CTC scores in mid-November this year and will notify you once they are available. In the meantime, and to help your school prepare and make predictions about future funding, we have developed general observations and trends on the annual changes in CTC scores over the past few years.

Download these observations and trends to help you prepare for next year.

The Online Estimator has been updated with the final indexation rate for 2024, based on the ABS release of the CPI and WPI on 13 August 2024. Estimated indexation rates for 2025 to 2027 are based on the release of the Federal Budget 2024–25, Budget Paper 1.

For information on:

• the latest indexation rates, visit the How is school funding indexed page on the Department of Education website
• how to access the Online Estimator, visit the Finance Help page on SchoolsHUB.

If you have any enquiries, please contact recurrentfundingestimates@education.gov.au.

Each year, the Compliance Certificate declaration process requires selected approved authorities to respond to questions confirming their compliance with ongoing policy requirements under Section 77 of the Australian Education Act 2013 and relevant sections of the Australian Education Regulations 2023.

The department has emailed these selected approved authorities (to their SchoolsHUB registered email addresses) to inform them they need to submit a 2024 Compliance Certificate declaration on behalf of their selected schools.

Approved authorities not selected to participate in the 2024 Compliance Certificate process do not need to submit a Compliance Certificate declaration. We will send these approved authorities a separate email to confirm no further action is required (to their SchoolsHUB registered email addresses).

Reminder for approved authorities of selected schools

Approved authorities of schools selected to submit a Compliance Certificate declaration will be able to access the Compliance Certificate from 9:00 am (AEST) Monday 12 August 2024 via SchoolsHUB.

They will need to complete and declare their Compliance Certificate by 5:00 pm (AEST) Friday 27 September 2024.

Visit the Compliance Certificate page for more information.