The My School website has recently been updated for 2022 with new data, including the first NAPLAN results and attendance data in 2 years.

It also has a new focus on sharing information about the progress each school is making, rather than simply the raw results. The change is designed to make it clearer for parents to understand how their child's school is performing.

The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), which runs NAPLAN, said parents could now compare the performance and expected progress of their child's school with other similar schools.

The “Student progress” information on My School includes tables showing the percentage of students at the school whose progress was better than expected, given the school’s average score 2 years ago and the level of community socio-educational advantage.

In 2022, more than 500 Australian schools showed well above the average progress of students with the same starting score and similar backgrounds for at least one domain - 30% of these schools were in regional or remote area.

ACARA chief executive David de Carvalho explained to the ABC, New NAPLAN data on My Schools website to spell the end of 'meaningless league tables', that the focus on progress enables fairer comparisons to be made.

"Too often, media organisations try to conduct crude 'league tables'...based on overall achievement without considering the schools' level of socio-educational advantage or the amount of progress the students have made in the previous two years. Such comparisons are meaningless."

According to a recent survey by ACARA, the most popular reason for parents using My School was 'to see how their child’s school is performing in literacy and numeracy'.