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The Australian website My School (www.myschool.edu.au) was launched at the start of the school year and attracted nine million hits on its first day.

The website was developed by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), an independent authority that is responsible for publishing nationally comparable data on Australian schools. It provides detailed literacy and numeracy results for years three, five, seven and nine for every school in Australia, and offers comparisons with similar schools. The site also details the number of students, the number of teachers, attendance rates and each school's social-economic profile.

In the six weeks it has been in operation, My School has received mixed reception from principals – some claiming they have not had enough time to prepare for its introduction. It has attracted mostly positive feedback from Australian parents.

The tertiary version, My University, will be launched in 2012.

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