2017
The Authority provides information each year on the participation and achievement of students in Years 10, 11 and 12 who are studying School Curriculum and Standards Authority courses, Vocational Education and Training units of competency or endorsed programs.
The 2017 statistics below are based on information provided by both government and non-government schools. They are also inclusive of students who:
- have completed course units
- have completed endorsed programs, and
- successfully completed units of competency.
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- Certification of senior secondary schooling achievement in 2017
- Table 1.1 - Number of schools with students who completed WACE courses by school sector 2017
- Figure 1.1 - Percentage of upper secondary schools in each school sector, 2017
- Table 1.2 - Number of students in Year 11 and Year 12 by school sector 2017
- Figure 1.2 - Percentage of Year 11 and Year 12 students by school sector, 2017
- Table 1.3 –Number of Year 12 students who completed Year 12 General and foundation courses only, 1-3 Year 12 ATAR course examinations and 4 or more Year 12 ATAR course examinations.by school sector, by gender, 2017.
- Table 1.4 - Composition of Year 12 cohorts 2016- 2017
- Table 1.6 - 'Typical' school students achieving a WACE in 2017
- Table 1.7 - Number of students who received exhibitions and awards in 2017
- Table 1.8 - Number of full fee paying students in Year 11 and Year 12 by school sector 2017
- Figure 1.3 - Percentage of full fee paying students in Year 11 and Year 12 by school sector 2017
- Table 1.9 - Number of full fee paying students achieving a WACE 2017
- Table 1.10 - Number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students achieving a WACE 2016-2017
- Table 1.11 - Participation of students born in 1999 (dates of birth between 1 July 1999 and 30 June 2000) and 2000 (dates of birth between 1 July 2000 and 30 June 2001) in schooling and in non-school programs, 2017
- Figure 1.4 - Status of Notice of Arrangements received, 2017
Section 2 - Year 11 Course Statistics
Section 3 - Year 12 Course Statistics
- Explanation of how school marks and ATAR course examination marks are used in the calculation of the combined scores.
- Table 4.1 - Number of candidates sitting the WACE-ATAR examination in each course 2015 - 2017
- Table 4.2 - Candidates in each WACE ATAR course examination, shown as percentage of total candidature, 2015-2017
- Table 4.3 -Total number and percentage of full time and part-time enrolments in tertiary admission entrance subjects WACE examination course, 2006-2017
- Table 4.4 - Age of enrolled students in ATAR course examinations by enrolment type and gender, 2017
- Table 4.5 - Non-school candidature and absent private non-school candidature in WACE ATAR course examinations, 2016-2017
- Table 4.7 - Number and percentage of candidates sitting for a specific number of WACE ATAR course examinations, 2014-2017
- Table 4.8 - Enrolments and absentees in each ATAR course examination, 2017
- Table 4.9 - Number of anomalous performers identified in each ATAR course examination, 2016-2017
- Table 4.10 - Course absentee and anomalous performer rate in relation to the date of the written component of the ATAR course examination, 2017
- Table 4.11 - Summary statistics on ATAR course examination, 2017
- Table 4.12 - Mean and standard deviation of moderated school assessments, raw examination marks and correlation coefficients for ATAR course examinations, by gender, 2017
- Table 4.13 - Mean and standard deviation of combined scores for ATAR course examinations, by gender, 2017
- Table 4.19 - Age of full fee paying overseas students enrolled in 2017 ATAR course examinations by enrolment type and sex
- Table 4.20 - Number and percentage of full fee paying overseas students sitting for a specific number of WACE_ATAR course examinations, 2014-2017
- Table 4.21 - Number of full fee paying overseas students sitting the WACE_ATAR examination in each course, 2015-2017
- Table 4.22 - Enrolments and absentees of full fee paying overseas students in each ATAR course examination, 2017
Section 5 - Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Endorsed Programs
- Table 5.1 Year 12 students using unit equivalents to achieve a WACE 2017
- Table 5.2 and 5.3 - VET and WPL EP school numbers 2017
- Table 5.4 - Number of students with at least one VET UoC and at least one WPL 2017
- Table 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.4, 5.5.5 and 5.5.6 - VET UoC participation 2017
- Table 5.6 - Number of students who completed at least one VET UoC at an RTO 2017
- Table 5.7 - VET Qualification Enrolments and Completions by system-sector 2017
- Table 5.8 - VET Qualification Enrolments and Completions by qualification level 2017
- Table 5.12 - Number of students who completed VET qualifications 2017
- Table 5.14 - RTO VET Offering Summary 2017
- Table 5.22 - Number of endorsed program unit equivalents achieved by students 2017
- Table 5.23 - Number of schools and Y10 students who completed endorsed programs 2017
- Table 5.24 - Number of schools and Y11 students who completed endorsed programs 2017
- Table 5.25 - Number of schools and Y12 students who completed endorsed programs 2017
- Table 5.26 - Number of students who achieved an endorsed program, by sex 2017
Section 6 - Secondary Student Progression and Retention Rates - Selected Years
Section 7 - Year 10 Student Statistics
- Table 7.1 - Number of schools offering courses to Year 10 students by school type 2017
- Table 7.2 - Number and percentage of Year 10 students awarded grades for WACE course units by gender 2017
- Table 7.3 - Number and percentage of Year 10 students who completed Preliminary course units by gender 2017