Glen Innes High School has been praised as one of the big improvers in numeracy in the state.
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NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, said it was one of 39 schools which were “stars in the NAPLAN results”.
She said the improvements showed that her government’s “huge investment in public education is bearing fruit.”
“We have invested record amounts into our public schools to ensure students have the best learning environments while also providing them access to inspiring and engaging teachers,” Ms Berejiklian said.
“The Government is also enabling schools to tailor teaching practices around the specific needs of students.”
The union at the school said the state government has kept its promise to raise funding but the federal government had not.
Mercurius Goldstein, a teacher and union rep in Glen Innes, said: “The NSW government has honoured the commitment it made in 2013 to provide its share of funding but the federal government is yet to do so.
“The campaign to secure 100 per cent of the ‘Schooling Resource Standard’ continues” (the standard of funding to meet the particular social needs of a school determined by things like the number of poor families in an area or Aboriginal families).
Mr Goldstein said: “We can expect to see a future improvement in student results when the federal government makes the commitment which the state government has demonstrated.”
