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Resource Allocation Model (RAM) funding table

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 13/11/2025

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The Resource Allocation Model (RAM) was developed to ensure a fair, efficient and transparent allocation of the state public education budget for every school. The model recognises that students and school communities are not all the same and that they have different needs which require different levels of support. Data Notes:

Anticipated Budget for each school subject to actual school enrolments.

RAM funding represents the total funding for the four equity loadings and the three base allocation loadings, a total of seven loadings. The equity loadings are socio-economic, Aboriginal background, English language proficiency and low-level adjustment for disability. The base loadings are location, professional learning and per capita.

The RAM funding table provides a sum total of the seven loadings for each NSW public school.

Every school receives a School Budget Allocation Report (SBAR) in October showing the full school funding allocation for the following year. This includes each school's allocations for the seven loadings of the RAM as well as staffing and operational funding.

Every school receives School Budget Allocation Report (SBAR) Adjustments in April/May confirming the full school funding allocation for the current year.

Changes in school funding are the result of changes to student needs and/or student enrolments.

Data is refreshed after each SBAR cycle.

For more information on the RAM, visit Schools funding.

Data Source:

Strategic Schools Resourcing. NSW Department of Education.

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Title Resource Allocation Model (RAM) funding table
Language eng
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/3ea5010a-89bd-46bf-be2a-13c82cc0e1bb
Remote Last Updated 14/10/2025
Contact Point
NSW Department of Education
open.data@det.nsw.edu.au
Reference Period 01/01/2016 - 31/12/2024
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Resource Allocation Model (RAM) funding table". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-nsw-education-resource-allocation-model