Tuggeranong Figures a Shambles

July 7, 2006

The projected enrolments in Tuggeranong under the Towards 2020 plan do not match those quoted for the status quo.There are five hundred more students under the Towards 2020 proposal.

Two glaring errors are obvious:

Status quo:

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Towards 2020 proposal:

 

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The 2010 enrolment at Theodore under the 2020 proposals is 423. This is an error, 423 is the current enrolment. This should be the same as the status quo 2010 projection, i.e. 315.

Wanniassa Hills Primary has a 2010 enrolment of 185 under the new proposal. This is the status quo 2010 enrolment for Wanniassa Primary. The projected enrolment of Wanniassa Hills Primary should not change under these proposals, so should be 290.

In addition the enrolments for Wanniassa P-10 and Chisholm Community P-10 have both been massivey inflated.

The projected enrolment for Wanniassa P-10 is 685. It should be 485, i.e the addition of the status quo 2010 enrolments of Wanniassa Primary (184) and Wanniassa High School (300).
The 2010 enrolment for Chisholm Community school is 1070. It should be 750, i.e the addition of the status quo 2010 enrolments of Gilmore Primary (175), Chisholm Primary (200) and Caroline Chisholm High School (375).

After the above adjustments are made there is a net loss of 20 students. This is because the 25 students from Tharwa have not been assigned to a school (they could easily be accomodated in Charles Conder or Gordon). The net loss is only 20 because Bonython (+145), Monash (+50) and Richardson (+40) add up to 235, but only 230 will need to be relocated from Isabella Plains by 2010.
I look forward to the Education Department releasing a revised document.

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