2011-2022 Enrolments in support classes and schools for specific purposes by category

Metadata for IAC0426 covering data tables released for calendar years 2011 to 2022. Each related table contains data for a specific calendar year.
 

• Data has been confidentialised where necessary to suppress enrolments of 5 or fewer students.

• Students in SSPs are reported according to the type of specific need rather than by their year of schooling. Students with multiple disabilities are reported according to their main disability.

• Most SSPs have permanent enrolments and include schools for students with intellectual (mild, moderate and severe) and physical disabilities, visual or hearing impairment, behaviour disorders or emotional disturbance, and students in juvenile justice centres.

• Some SSPs have no permanent enrolments because the children temporarily attending them are enrolled and counted in their own schools. These are mainly hospital schools. Some students with specific needs are enrolled in support classes in primary, secondary and central schools.

• Students enrolled in support classes are reported according to the type of specific need rather than by their year of schooling.

• Support classes for students of mixed abilities are classified according to the predominant type of specific need present in the class.

• Students in SSPs, except those in juvenile justice schools, are reported by type of class.

• From 2020, students in mainstream support classes are reported by their underlying grade of enrolment.

• Data tables for years 2011 and 2012 contain additional categories that are not found in later years. These categories include:

  • Language disorder

  • Autistic with severe intellectual disability

  • Reading (2011 only)

• Data tables for years 2013 contain a 'Moderate or severe intellectual disability' category that was not included in 2011 and 2012.