Australians will be kept in the dark about taxpayer funds earmarked for individual Catholic schools after the Turnbull government quietly revamped its online funding estimator.

The federal government has removed how much Commonwealth funding more than 1700 Catholic schools are set to receive over the next decade under the Gonski 2.0 model.

Credit:Mario Borg

The estimator, which aims to promote transparency around school funding, now shows average per-student funding projections for Catholic education systems across Australia.

Similar changes have also been made for 18 independent school systems across Australia, including the Seventh Day Adventists, Lutherans and Anglicans.