ICSEA Socio-Educational Advantage
ICSEA (Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage) measures the socio-educational profile of this school's community not the school itself.The national average is 1,000.It is calculated from parent's occupation, parent's education, geographic remoteness, and Indigenous enrolment proportion.The national average is 1,000.It is calculated from parent's occupation, parent's education, geographic remoteness, and Indigenous enrolment proportion.
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Como Secondary College's community composition is broadly balanced across socio-educational quarters, reflecting a relatively diverse intake compared to many Australian schools
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Community Composition Matters Why
ICSEA is not a quality ranking
ICSEA measures the community a school serves not how well the school teaches. Two schools with identical ICSEA scores can have dramatically different teaching quality, culture, and outcomes. ICSEA is context, not verdict.
Sempre compare like with like
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The composition shift over time
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SEIFA complements ICSEA
Seifa IRSD measures the geographic area around the school (from Census data). It provides a complementary view especially useful for understanding schools in gentrifying or rapidly changing neighborhoods where ICSEA may lag behind the on-the-ground reality