Government Financial Support
In 2009 (the most recent year for which information has been published on the government My School website), The Scots College received $4,896,551 of recurrent funding from federal and state sources. This is equivalent to $3,078 of taxpayer subsidy for each student. In addition, in the same year the school received $437,072 of federal capital expenditure funding. According to the school's report for 2009, this government financial support totalled 11 percent of total revenue.
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