Completing the Boarding students fields and Boarding fee concessions page
Boarding students who attend the school full-time
If your school is accredited for boarding students, and one or more boarding students attend the school full-time, you will need to complete the Boarding column under Eligible primary/secondary full-time students. All boxes that you need to complete will appear red in colour and then turn white once you have completed them.
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Enter all Eligible primary/secondary full-time students who are boarding according to their year of schooling. The number of boarding students cannot exceed the number of students in the year level.
Once you have entered all students, you can populate the remaining fields with zero by clicking the button.
Boarding students who attend the school part-time
If your school is accredited for boarding students, and one or more boarding students attend the school part time, you will need to complete the Boarding checkbox when you enter a student as a part-time student and that student is a boarding student.
After you click the button, the part-time student's FTE will be added to the summary Boarding column.
Accredited for Boarding, no Boarding student enrolments
If the school is accredited for boarding, but has no boarding student enrolments in 2026, please enter zero for all boarding fields. Entering zero will not cause a validation error.
Boarding-only site, no classroom or distance education
Schools that have a site that is accredited for boarding only will not be completing a Census form for that site. You should include any boarding students in the host centre Census form or other associated facility that is accredited for boarding.
If no other site is accredited for boarding, please contact the NSSAB Secretariat. You will need to provide this information manually.
Boarding fee concessions
Only non-state schools accredited to enrol boarding students, and are eligible for funding for boarding, should complete this section.
2025 Average Boarding Enrolment: Schools should use the data on boarding enrolments provided in the 2025 Census for the Australian Government Department of Education (DE). Where the boarding enrolment in the DE Census varies by 10 per cent or more from the boarding enrolment at the beginning of Semester 1 2025, schools should calculate an average of these two figures. Insert these data opposite the appropriate year levels. Enter a zero if there is no enrolment at particular year levels.
2025 Boarding Fee: This is the fee that an individual student would usually be charged as a ‘first child’. The boarding fee excludes fees charged for the building account and other fixed costs.
Notional Boarding Fee Income (calculated):This figure is obtained by multiplying the 2025 Average Boarding Enrolment by the 2025 Boarding Fee for each year level.
Total Average Boarding Enrolment (2025) (calculated): This figure is calculated by adding all the individual year-level enrolments at 2025 Average Boarding Enrolment.
Total Notional Boarding Fee Income (2025) (calculated): This figure is calculated by adding all the individual year level Notional Boarding Fee Income amounts. This total amount should be greater than or equal to the total boarding fees collected added to all fee concessions.
Notional boarding fee per student (calculated): This figure is calculated by dividing the Total Notional Boarding Fee Income (2025) by Total Average Boarding Enrolment (2025).
Next add in the Accounting method by clicking on the Click here button.
If you select the ‘Accounting method’ from the drop down options, complete the information required.
Accrual accounting only:
Total Boarding fee concessions, including actual bad debt ‘write-off’ to provision account (2025 school year): This part obtains all boarding fee concessions, including bad debt provisions that apply to the 2025 school year.
Boarding fee concessions granted for church membership (2025): This is the amount which has been granted as concessions for church or parish membership during 2025.
Boarding fee concessions for all non-hardship/non-sibling reasons (2025): This is the amount that has been granted as scholarships or concessions for reasons other than economic hardship or having student siblings – for example, concessions to students who are children of staff members.
Click the button. The information will now appear.
If you are selecting 'Cash Accounting' from the drop-down menu, complete the information required.
Cash accounting only:
Total boarding fees collected for 2025: These are fees collected as boarding fees for 2025. The figure should be readily derived by examining a 2025 financial statement. It should include monies collected in 2025 that relate to the 2025 school year.
Notional boarding fee concessions to ALL students in 2025 (calculated): This figure is obtained by deducting total boarding fees collected from total notional boarding fee income.
Fee concessions minus concessions that are not included in the final computation (calculated): Notional boarding fee concessions to ALL students in 2025 minus Boarding fee concessions for church membership/non-hardship/non-sibling reasons (2025).
This calculation removes fee concessions that are not included in the final computation of school fee concessions.
Fee concessions FTE (calculated): Fee concessions minus concessions that are not included in the final computation divided by Notional boarding fee per student.
This calculation converts the dollar value of all concessions that are not included in the final computation into an equivalent number of full-time students who have been granted full-fee concessions.
No Boarding fee concessions data available from 2025
If you do not have any boarding fee concession data available from 2025, please enter '0' for the Boarding fee concessions fields.
For accounting method, select N/A.
Last updated 20 January, 2026