Boarding students and Boarding fee concessions
Boarding students
Only schools accredited to enrol boarding students should complete this section.
Boarding students are students who:
- attend the school at its approved location and are accommodated in residential facilities administered by the school; or
- attend the school at its approved location and are accommodated in residential facilities at another school which has been approved by the Board.
You should include the boarding student enrolment counts at the school the students are attending rather than where the residential facilities are located.
Students to include
- boarding students whose parents are Australian citizens or permanent residents, whether the parents reside in Australia or overseas; and
- students who attend the school and are accommodated in residential facilities administered by the school or another school as approved by the Board.
Students to exclude
- boarding students who do not attend the school for tuition, unless the Board has approved a formal agreement
- overseas students (refer to Overseas students in these Instructions)
- students on visitor visas, bridging visas with study limitations or no visa (refer to Students on visitor visas, bridging visas with study limitations or no visa in these Instructions).
Boarding fee concessions
You should use data from 2024 only throughout this section on boarding fee concessions. It is the most recent data on the pattern of boarding fee concessions for a full year. Remember to round all money amounts to the nearest dollar.
The over-arching goal is to provide more assistance to schools that are giving concessions for reasons of economic hardship, as well as providing compensation for loss of income incurred through non-collection of fees (bad debts).
Do not include concessions for other reasons. For example, schools may give concessions for church membership, for students who are children of staff members, or as sporting or academic scholarships. But do not include these here unless there is also economic hardship.
For those schools where the boarding students are attending another school, contact the NSSAB Secretariat for clarification when you are completing this section. They will help make a decision according to the agreement of fees and concessions administration.
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Last updated 10 December, 2024