eBook: Planning education provision in a changing Australia

By 2026 there will be 705,000 more children in our schools than there are today

In this eBook, we provide a framework for delivering education services when and where they are most needed.

Starting in 2006, there has been a peak in the number of children born in Australia.

In 2011 this wave of additional children arrived at our primary schools and from 2018 the first of them will be ready for high school.

School planning is very localised and to make confident decisions, school planners need to understand how these broad population changes will manifest locally.

Access to detailed local population data will answer the ‘when’ and ‘where’ questions, which are critical to developing an informed response.

.id’s consulting team has helped a range of education providers to answer these questions and make confident, evidence-based strategic decisions.

This ebook captures what we’ve learned by applying a demographic lens to the education sector.

We hope it will make a contribution to the sector by providing a framework for delivering education services when and where they are most needed.