NSW Public School Annual Report Financial Explorer (2016

10-Year Financial Trajectory (2016–2025)

Click or hover any year bar to inspect figures and open the official published report.

📄 Primary Source Verification: Published SPARO Annual Reports (2016–2025)

Accounts-Derived Forensic Ratios (2018–2025)

Benchmarked against Principal Network and Statewide averages.

Complete 10-Year Financial & SBAR Budget Ledger (2016–2025)

Every figure in white/neutral columns is verbatim as printed in the NSW Department of Education Annual Report. Hover ? on any header for official policy definitions.

Show Page 2 SBAR Equity & Budget Breakdown Show Calculated Comparison Columns

Network & Peer Comparison

Comparing the selected focus school against every school in the same Principal Network, similar enrolment band, or all Special Schools.

Running Costs & Maintenance (OpEx) — Peer Ranking

Statewide School Financial Rankings & Multi-Year Screener

Filter and screen all 2,203 NSW public schools by single-year figures, overnight sweeps, or multi-year shifts. Click any school name to jump to its 10-year profile.

Showing 2,203 schools

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System Expenditure & Cash Trajectory

Visualizing the 2021–2023 surge in contractor & off-formula expenditure, followed by the sharp 2024 contraction.

"Who Got Hit vs Who Didn't" — School Quadrant Plot

Click any school dot to open its 10-Year Profile. Hover for exact figures.

X-Axis:

Crimson: Hit by Both Overnight Sweep & 2024 In-Year Clawback

Amber: Hit by Overnight Sweep Only

Emerald: High 2021–23 Surge (>$500k) with Zero Clawback / Untouched

Navy: Baseline School Cohort

Total Cash Removed by Directorate (2022–2025)

Cumulative Overnight Sweeps (1 Jan 2022–2025) + 2024 In-Year Clawbacks

Statewide Annual Summary Ledger (2016–2025)

Aggregated system-wide figures across all public schools in the active cohort.

Calendar Year	Schools Reporting	Total Enrolment	Total Revenue ($)	Appropriation ($)	SBAR Formula Budget ($)	Staffing Spent (\|Employee\|) ($)	Running Costs (\|OpEx\|) ($)	CALC Non-SBAR Cash Gap ($)	Year-End Closing Cash ($)	CALC 1 Jan Overnight Sweep ($)

Plain English Term	Official DoE Annual Report Line Item	What It Means in Practice / Forensic Explanation
Starting Cash Balance (1 Jan)	`Opening Balance ($)`	Liquid cash held in school accounts at the start of the calendar year. Under standard accounting, this must equal the prior year's 31 December Closing Balance. Where `Opening(Year N) < Closing(Year N-1)`, cash was removed overnight (central sweep or carry-forward restatement).
Total Cash Received	`Revenue ($)`	Total money received by the school across the 12-month calendar year from all sources (Appropriation + Grants and Contributions + Other Revenue).
Government Funding Received	`Appropriation ($)`	Actual cash transferred into the school's bank account from the Department during the year (Page 1 Financial Summary).
Parent / P&C Grants	`Grants and Contributions ($)`	Voluntary parent school fees, P&C Association donations, community grants, uniform shop proceeds, and student excursion contributions.
Staffing & Salaries Spent	`Employee Related Expenses ($)`	Actual expenditure on teachers, executive staff, administrative staff, and school learning support officers (SLSOs). Reported as a negative outflow.
General Running Costs (OpEx)	`Operating Expenses ($)`	All non-salary expenditures: external contractors, maintenance invoices, groundskeeping, equipment, IT, utilities, and minor works. Note: A positive (+) figure represents an accounting credit reversal (e.g. Chester Hill 2024 +$3.68M).
Yearly Leftover / Overspend	`Surplus / Deficit for the Year ($)`	Net in-year result: Revenue minus Staffing minus OpEx. Positive indicates funds added to bank reserves; negative indicates operating at a deficit.
Unspent Cash Balance at Year-End	`Closing Balance ($)`	Total unspent cash sitting in the school's bank accounts on 31 December. Note: Omitted on the printed PDF summary line by DoE in 2019, but recoverable via the 2020 Opening Balance.
Formula Base Funding	`Budget Allocation - Base Total ($)`	Core per-student and baseline operational formula entitlement (Page 2 SBAR) before needs-based equity loadings.
Total Equity Loadings	`Budget Allocation - Equity Total ($)`	Combined needs-based loadings: Socio-economic background, Aboriginal background, English language proficiency (EAL/D), and low-level disability adjustment.
Disability Support Funding	`Equity: Disability ($)`	Formula loading allocated to support students with disability learning needs in mainstream classrooms.
ESL / Language Equity Funding	`Equity: Language ($)`	Formula loading allocated for students learning English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D).
Targeted Support Funding	`Targeted Total ($)`	Individual high-needs student funding including Integration Funding Support (IFS), Refugee Student Support, and New Arrivals Program.
Official Formula Entitlement	`Budget Allocation - Grand Total ($)`	The school's total published Resource Allocation Model (RAM / SBAR) entitlement for the calendar year (2017–2025).
CALC SBAR Budget vs Cash Received	`Appropriation minus SBAR Grand Total ($)`	Calculated gap between actual cash received and published formula entitlement. Positive (+) indicates off-formula cash top-ups; Negative (−) represents in-year cash clawbacks docked below published entitlement.
CALC 1 Jan Overnight Cash Sweep	`Opening(N) minus Closing(N-1) ($)`	Funds removed overnight between 31 December and 1 January without appearing in the school's in-year expenditure ledger (e.g. 1 Jan 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 sweeps).
CALC Unspent SBAR Payroll Capacity	`SBAR Grand Total minus \|Employee\| ($)`	Measures when a school's published SBAR entitlement exceeds its actual staffing spend, leaving surplus cash capacity that can be redirected into contractor OpEx or cash reserves.

NSW Public School Annual Report Financial Explorer 2016–2025

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