• The Starting Line

    Register your school for the Founding Round of The Starting Line, Australia's national capability benchmark. Registrations close Friday 20 November. Survey links and codes arrive from the week of 26 October, and all responses are due by Friday 4 December. Your school receives its results snapshot in early February 2027 and its full report in April 2027
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  • Which year levels are taking part?*
  • Which week will the Year 5 data be collected?*
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  • Which week will the Year 6 data be collected?*
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  • Which week will the Year 7 data be collected?*
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  • Which week will the Year 8 data be collected?*
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  • Which week will the Year 9 data be collected?*
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  • Which week will the Year 10 data be collected?*
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  • Which week will the Year 11 data be collected?*
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  • Which week will the Year 12 data be collected?*
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  • Future Anything is committed to making The Starting Line accessible to every school. The survey is completed online, ideally on a 1:1 device with wifi. If devices, connectivity, literacy or learning needs might be a barrier for any of your students, let us know. We have options and will work through them with you. Do you anticipate any barrier for you or your students?*

  • Teacher companion survey (optional)

    Schools taking part in The Starting Line can also get a snapshot of their teachers' confidence in building these capabilities. The short teacher survey mirrors the student survey and asks staff how confident they feel developing each capability in their students. Your results show where professional learning could make the biggest difference. Across schools, the results help us understand how teacher confidence relates to student confidence and capability.

    The process is the same as for students. Teachers complete a short online survey and enter your school code. They aren't asked for their name or any other identifying details.

    Teachers are asked a few background questions, such as their role and how long they've been teaching. We use these only for our national analysis, and they're never used to break down your school's results. Your school receives an aggregate profile of your teaching staff and their overall capability results, never individual responses or results by group. This protects the privacy of individual teachers, especially in smaller schools.

    Teacher responses are due by Friday 4 December, the same deadline as student data.

  • Would you like to include your teachers?*
  • Which date can we expect your teacher data by?*
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    2 digit month, 2 digit day, 4 digit year

  • Terms and Conditions

  • 1. What this is. The Starting Line is a free, national, anonymous survey of student capabilities conducted by Future Anything Pty Ltd, open to Australian schools. Submitting this form registers your school's interest in the Founding Round (Term 4, 2026). Registrations close Friday 20 November, and all survey responses must be submitted by Friday 4 December. You can withdraw at any time by emailing hello@futureanything.com.

    2. What happens next. Once you register, we'll send you a welcome pack to help you prepare, including information you can share with staff and families. From the week of 26 October, we'll send your survey links and your school's unique access code. Students will use this code (not your school name or details) to access the online survey tool.

    3.What do we collect in The Starting Line?

    From you: your name, role, school email address, school name and location, your registration details (year levels and approximate student numbers), and anything you choose to write in the open question.
    About your school, from public sources: school-level information published by ACARA (such as ICSEA value, sector and location).
    From your students, via the anonymous survey: your school's survey code - responses are collected against the code, not your school's name, and the code-to-school link is held separately by Future Anything; year level; optional demographic questions - gender, and whether the student identifies as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander - each with a "prefer not to say" option; and responses to the capability questions. The student survey contains no free-text fields.

    From your teachers, if you opt in to the teacher companion survey: your school's survey code; role (for example classroom teacher or senior leader); years teaching, collected in bands rather than exact numbers; gender and whether they identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, each with a "prefer not to say" option; and responses to the capability confidence questions.


    4. What we don't collect. No student names, email addresses, dates of birth, addresses, student ID numbers or photographs. Students do not create accounts or log in. We do not collect academic results, NAPLAN data, attendance records, behaviour records, or teacher assessments of students. No information collected can identify an individual student.

    5. How the data will be used.

    Your school's report: your students' responses are aggregated at cohort level (minimum of 10 responses) and benchmarked against like schools. Individual responses are never reported, and school reports contain no demographic breakdowns.
    National analysis: anonymous responses are combined into national, aggregated analysis published by Future Anything, including The Starting Line Report. Demographic analysis occurs only at national level, with small groups suppressed. No school is identifiable in any public reporting without its written consent.
    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander data: analysis relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students will only be published following consultation with Indigenous education advisors.
    Future editions: anonymous survey data is retained securely so that participating schools can track year-on-year change in future rounds.
    Storage and access: survey data is stored securely, with access restricted to Future Anything's analysis team. Contact details are retained only while needed for the initiative and deleted on request; anonymous survey data is retained so schools can track change across future editions. Details of the platforms we use are available on request.
    Your contact details: used to communicate with you about The Starting Line - your registration, survey code and report - and, only if you opt in below, occasional updates about Future Anything's work. Personal information is handled in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles and our Privacy Policy. Details are never sold or shared with third parties for their marketing. You may request access, correction or deletion at any time via hello@futureanything.com.


    6. What your school receives. A snapshot of your cohort's aggregated results in February 2027 of your cohort completing the survey, and a full report in April 2027 comparing your students with like schools nationally - released alongside The Starting Line Report. Schools registering multiple year levels also receive their capability results mapped across year levels in the full report. All at no cost.

    7. Cost and obligation. Participation is free. There is no obligation to purchase any product or service from Future Anything.

    Questions about any of this? Email hello@futureanything.com we're glad to talk it through before you register.

  • I have read and accept the terms above, and I consent to Future Anything contacting me about The Starting Line.*
  • I have approval to participate in The Starting Line from my principal or delegate*
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