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AGEID of location

This is the Location AGEID

Numeric up 5 figures.

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Student ID Original

This is the source system student original identifier (e.g. CEID’ER ID for Compass)– sometimes known within a school as an internal student identifier.

See extra information on Student and staff identifiers

 Alpha/Alphanumeric or Numeric up to 12 places.

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Family name

This field must be blank.

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Given name

This field must be blank.

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Grade

The school grade that the student is enrolled on census date.

*If school is SPECIAL SCHOOL (immaterial of Primary or Secondary school level)

Ungraded Primary if student is 11 years or under on 1^st July of the census year

Ungraded Secondary if student is 12 years or over on 1^st July of the census year

• Kindergarten or Kinder

• Grade 1

• Grade 2

• Grade 3

• Grade 4

• Grade 5

• Grade 6

• Grade 7

• Grade 8

• Grade 9

• Grade 10

• Grade 11

• Grade 12

• Ungraded Primary*

• Ungraded Secondary*

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Class (Primary only)

Name or ID of class that the student attends.

The value entered in this column must be the same for all children in the same class.

Note in previous years there has been tendency to group classes e.g. K/1/2

The requirement for this is what class does the child belong to - e.g. if he/she spends most time in Grade 1 Giraffes then put 1-Giraffes rather than 1-Giraffes/2-Rhinos/1-Lemurs which all Grade 1 students are split between.

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Date of birth

The date the student was born. The student’s age in census will be calculated as at Census Reference Date (Jul-01 of the current year) – a different date to the Census Date.

Valid date

Date-dd/mm/yyyy

Gender

The gender of the student.

• Male

• Female

• Intersex/Unspecified

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Indigenous

Indicates whether the student self-identifies as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander

• Yes

• No

• Not stated

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Visa status

Indicates whether the student holds a permanent, bridging or temporary visa and if so, whether or not the Visa is eligible for funding. 

Those entered as "Funded Visa" or "Unfunded Visa" are counted as Students on Visas on DESE.

Those entered as "Unfunded Visa" are counted as Overseas Students.

• No Visa

• Funded Visa

• Unfunded Visa

Validate as warning on correlation with Indigenous status – if Yes to Indigenous and has a Visa then alert

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Boarding

Indicates whether the student is accommodated in residential facilities administered by the school

• Yes

• No

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Language status

Language status:

ESL=English as a second language +/- government assistance

LBOTE=Language background other than English

• ESL and receiving assistance

• ESL but not receiving assistance

• LBOTE but not ESL

• Not LBOTE

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Religion

Student religious classification

• Catholic

• No religion

• Orthodox

• Other Christian

• Other faith

• Religion unknown

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Enrolment status

Indicates whether the student is officially attending full-time or part-time

• Full-time

• Part-time

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FTE

If part-time, proportion of study load compared to a full-time student

• Numerical – between 0 and 1 (non-inclusive) and rounded to one decimal place

• If between .5 and <1.0 then round up

• If  >0.0 and < 0.5 then round down

Decimal(6,1)

Attending another school (part-time only)

Indicates whether or not a part-time student attends another school.

For all Full-time students this will be No
For all Part-time students this will be Yes/No

• Yes

• No

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Special Circumstances application

NB February is all “N/A”

Most, if not all, students will be “No”. 

• Yes

• No

• N/A

  Status
  colour Blue title Use this value for FEBRUARy

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Special Circumstances application-Outcome

 NB February is all “N/A”

• Waiting

• Approved

• Declined

• N/A

  Status
  colour Blue title Use this value for FEBRUARY

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Included in current census

“Yes” for if the student is to be the included in the current census. See the extra section on Special Circumstances for further information(only August Census).

• Yes

  Status
  colour Blue title Use this value for FEBRUARY

• No

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Student ID NCCD

 This a new field.  It is the  “external NCCD Student Identifier” as exposed by the NCCD system for an NCCD student. This required so can match the Census student record with the NCCD system record for export to DESE.

Alpha/Alphanumeric or Numeric (up to 12 places)

Blank

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