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Student Resource Package – School Infrastructure

Split-Site/Multi-Site Allowance (Reference 33)

Split-site/multi-site allowances are paid to designated primary, P-12 and secondary colleges which are not being funded for a separate enrolment linked base (Reference 2). Specialist and Language Schools are also eligible if applied criteria is satisfied.

A school may be eligible for the allowance if:

  • it is a specialist school operating on sites that are more than one kilometre apart (not including base rooms) or
  • the configuration of the school represents a historical merging of 2 or more schools or
  • it has classrooms operating on 2 or more sites, for example, separated by at least a road or an oval (not including alternative settings attached to schools).

Note:

  1. Includes P–12 colleges that have more than one primary school site.
  2. For approved secondary colleges formed through the merger of secondary colleges on adjacent sites, this item is replaced by a $61,056 site allowance.

Funding is calculated at the Indicative cycle and allocated through cash funding.

Rates 2024

Primary school (includes P–12 colleges that have more than one primary site)

  • $6,899 per annum for the second site
  • $3,451 per annum for each subsequent site

P–12 school

  • $10,886 per annum for each additional site

Secondary college

  • $10,886 per annum for each additional site

Language school

  • $10,886 per annum for each additional site

Special school

  • $3,058 per annum for each additional site

Note: A stocktake of schools is being rescheduled to occur during 2024 and 2025 and schools currently receiving this allocation will be assessed and sites no longer operational will have funding discontinued.

Reference 33 of the SRP Guide, providing information on split-site/multi-site allowance including eligibility and rates

Reviewed 31 December 2023

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