In addition to having low fees, many independent schools are small, with almost half educating fewer than 200 students. Although projections by the australian bureau of statistics suggest school population growth will slow over the coming years, the independent school sector is projected to continue to increase its enrolment share and experience strong growth, year on year. In the past five years, more new students were enrolled in nsw independent schools than in every state and territory government school sector combined Since 2000, nsw schools have added 160,000 students Over the five years to 2024, total student enrolments increased by 4.6% Independent schools recorded the largest increase (18.5%), followed by catholic schools (6.6%) and government schools (1.0%).
Student enrolments the rate of growth in independent schools has been increasing
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