Cessnock Public School

Government primary school in Cessnock, NSW

School score 9Area advantage (CAI) 5 · bottom 4% of suburbsArea Y12 26.9%Attendance 83.6% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)

What this page can and cannot tell you 1 of 2 school-level measures · zone mapped

Attendance: 83.6% (NSW, Semester 1 2024). The NSW department publishes a rate for this school, and its change since 2019.
No destinations figure. We hold no destinations figure for any NSW school in this snapshot, so we show none for any of them. Why ▸
Enrolment zone: mapped. Its Primary catchment is the shaded area on this page (NSW, CC BY 4.0).

How our numbers work ▸

Sector	Government
Type	Primary
Year levels	K–6
Enrolment	276 students (NSW government schools, August census, FTE)
Community Advantage Index (area percentile)	5 — bottom 4% of Australian suburbs (Lower advantage)
Area Year-12 attainment	26.9%
School attendance	83.6% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)
Value-add (attendance vs area)	0 pts vs what its area predicts among NSW schools (NSW, Semester 1 2024) — in line with its area. In plain words: attendance here is about what NSW schools in similarly advantaged areas record.
Attendance trend (vs 2019)	-6.2 pts (NSW, Semester 1, 2019 to 2024)
Diversity	30% Indigenous · 7% language background
Enrolment catchment	Primary zone shown on the map above — check if an address is in this zone ▸ (NSW, CC BY 4.0)
Suburb	Cessnock, NSW
Website	cessnock-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Attendance, 2019 to 2024 (NSW series, Semester 1). Cessnock Public School recorded 89.8% in 2019 and 83.6% (NSW, Semester 1 2024) — 6.2 percentage points lower. The vertical scale is set to this school's own attendance range (75–95%), so the steepness of this line cannot be compared with another school's. NSW's series counts students in Years 1–10 only (the national reporting standard), so compare it only with other NSW schools. Attendance is the department's own figure; it is not a measure of teaching quality. How the attendance trend works ▸

School score 9/100 blends this school's own published attendance with the advantage and Year-12 attainment of its area. It is our estimate from open data — not an official rating, not ICSEA, and not a measure of teaching quality.

Area advantage (CAI) — our Community Advantage Index — is our own estimate of the surrounding community's socio-educational advantage, derived from ABS SEIFA. It is a percentile, not a score out of 100: a CAI of 5 means this suburb sits in the bottom 4% of Australian suburbs we hold a figure for (14,490 of them). It describes the suburb, so every school in Cessnock shares it. It is a community indicator, not a school-quality score, and is not ICSEA. How the Community Advantage Index is calculated ▸

Nearby schools

The closest schools to Cessnock Public School, ordered by distance — not by any score.

Cessnock High School Government secondary · 524 m
Cessnock East Public School Government primary · 1.5 km
Cessnock West Public School Government primary · 1.8 km
Mount View High School Government secondary · 3.2 km
Kearsley Public School Government primary · 3.5 km
Nulkaba Public School Government primary · 3.6 km

All schools in Cessnock ▸

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