ICSEA

ICSEA provides an indication of the socio-educational backgrounds of students; it has nothing to do with the staff, school facilities or teaching programs at the school. [...] How is ICSEA calculated PARENTS’ ICSEA GEOGRAPHICAL OCCUPATION VALUE LOCATION SCHOOL STUDENT FACTORS – level of FACTORS the school’s PARENTS’ educational PROPORTION EDUCATION OF INDIGENOUS STUDENTS advantage What does the ICSEA value mean for you The lower the ICSEA ICSEA is set at an value, the lower the average of 1000. [...] The higher the ICSEA value, the higher the level of educational You can use this level of educational advantage of students value as an ICSEA advantage of students who go to this school. [...] A value on the index corresponds to the average level of educational advantage of the school’s student population relative to those of other schools. [...] On the ‘School profile’ page, a table presented alongside the school ICSEA value shows the distribution of students in a school across four ‘Socio-Educational Advantage’ (SEA) quarters representing a scale of relative disadvantage (‘bottom quarter’) through to relative advantage (‘top quarter’).