Level 2, NAB Building
71 Smith Street
Darwin NT 0801
The Capacity to Contribute (CTC) assessment is a score which is a measure of a non-government school community’s capacity to contribute to the ongoing costs of running the school. A school’s CTC percentage affects the amount of base recurrent funding the school attracts from the Commonwealth Government under the Australian Education Act 2013 (the Act).
In 2020 the Australian Government introduced a new method of calculating the schools CTC score based on the Direct Measure of Income (DMI) of the parents and guardians of students within Independent Schools.
DMI identifies the median income of parents and guardians within a schooling community using data collected through the Multi-Agency Data Integration Project (MADIP) which collects information around health, education, government payments, income and taxation, employment and population demographics.
The median income of the schooling community is then converted to an annual DMI score which is then used to create the CTC score of the school. The CTC score is then discounted from the base amount of funding schools can receive from the Australian Government.
The DMI does not apply to Special, Special Assistance or Majority Indigenous Schools which are funded at the maximum Commonwealth funding rate.
The Department of Education has prepared a range of fact sheets for schools explaining the new DMI.
Independent Schools Australia (ISA) has also prepared a fact sheet on Direct Measure of Income Methodology.
Choice and Affordability Fund
The Choice and Affordability (CAF) fund was developed to support the non-government school sector, to help provide a flexible means for driving government priorities. AISNT will administer funding in line with agreed priorities for the fund. This fund commenced in 2020, and will be provided to the non-government sector over the next 10 years until 2029.
This fund will supplement Commonwealth recurrent funding, to help drive government priorities. This includes;
Further Information:
Level 2, NAB Building
71 Smith Street
Darwin NT 0800
All Rights Reserved | Association of Independent Schools of the Northern Territory
AISNT acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Larrakia country, where we are privileged to live, learn and work. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout the Northern Territory on which our schools are located. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples