On Friday 4 March 2011 the Minister for School Education, Peter Garrett, launched My School 2.0.

The improved site provides access to school financial information, with directly comparable details of recurrent income and capital expenditure for all government and non-government schools.

Another important feature is the addition of a third year of results for the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy allowing users to now follow trends in school performance over time.

Other improvements to My School include:

• A new method of calculating each school’s value on the Index of Community Socio-educational Advantage (ICSEA) by using data supplied by parents and including factors such as the proportion of students at a school from a language background other than English.
• Security features to guard against misuse of the information on My School, including a measure to deter automated data collection tools from causing access problems for other users.
• Improvements to data presentation that make it simpler to compare statistically similar schools.

To access My School visit: www.myschool.edu.au.