Factbox: Gonski school funding by the numbers

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has offered state and territory governments $2 for every extra $1 they invest in education, promising a $14.5 billion package over six years from 2014. Below is a breakdown of what the states will get under Labor's school funding plan.

Public schools would be the big winners with $12.1 billion in extra funds, while the Catholic system would receive $1.4 billion and private schools $1 billion.

The federal government also proposes to boost commonwealth schools funding by 4.7 per cent a year, but only if the states and territories agree to increase their education budgets by a corresponding three per cent.

Labor will use savings from $2.8 billion in cuts to tertiary education and $900 million from changes to superannuation tax concessions to help pay for its share of the funding boost.

OVERALL:

* Extra $14.5 billion for public, private schools over six years from 2014

* Commonwealth to pay 65 per cent, or $9.4 billion

* States to cover the rest

* Extra funding takes total public schools funding to $49.5 billion a year

* Schools funding to grow if better annual indexation rates agreed with states

* Federal government funding to rise 4.7 per cent a year if states grow education budgets by three per cent

STATE-BY-STATE:

* NSW, $5 billion

* VIC, $4 billion

* QLD, $3.8 billion

* WA, $300 million

* SA, $600 million

* TAS, $400 million

* NT, $300 million

* ACT, $100 million

PER STUDENT

$9271 per primary school student

$12,193 for every secondary pupil

BY SECTOR:

* Public schools, $12.1 billion

* Catholic schools, $1.4 billion

* Independent, $1 billion

EDUCATION SYSTEM:

* More than 9400 schools: 71 per cent public, 18 per cent Catholic, 11 per cent independent

* More than 3.5 million students: 65 per cent in public schools, 20 per cent Catholic, 14 per cent independent

* Under current funding system, federal government pays 15 per cent of public schools funding, 75 per cent of private schools funding.