Christies Beach High School

Government secondary school in Christie Downs, SA

School score 7Area advantage (CAI) 3 · bottom 2% of suburbsArea Y12 35.3%Attendance 70.1% (SA, Semester 1 2023)

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Attendance: 70.1% (SA, Semester 1 2023). The SA department publishes a rate for this school, and its change since 2019.
No destinations figure. We hold no destinations figure for any SA school in this snapshot, so we show none for any of them. Why ▸
Enrolment zone: mapped. Its Secondary catchment is the shaded area on this page (SA 2023, CC BY 4.0).

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Sector	Government
Type	Secondary
Year levels	Years 7-12
Community Advantage Index (area percentile)	3 — bottom 2% of Australian suburbs (Lower advantage)
Area Year-12 attainment	35.3%
School attendance	70.1% (SA, Semester 1 2023)
Value-add (attendance vs area)	-12.9 pts vs what its area predicts among SA schools (SA, Semester 1 2023) — below its area. In plain words: fewer students turn up here than at SA schools sitting in similarly advantaged areas.
Enrolment growth (~5 yr)	+8.3% (SA, FTE, Term 3 2019→Term 3 2024) growing (population & capacity signal — not quality, not popularity)
Attendance trend (vs 2019)	-10.1 pts (SA, Semester 1, 2019 to 2023)
Enrolment catchment	Secondary zone shown on the map above — check if an address is in this zone ▸ (SA 2023, CC BY 4.0)
Suburb	Christie Downs, SA

Attendance, 2019 to 2023 (SA series, Semester 1). Christies Beach High School recorded 80.2% in 2019 and 70.1% (SA, Semester 1 2023) — 10.1 percentage points lower. The vertical scale is set to this school's own attendance range (65–85%), so the steepness of this line cannot be compared with another school's. SA's series counts every full-time student, with no year-level restriction, so compare it only with other SA schools. Attendance is the department's own figure; it is not a measure of teaching quality. How the attendance trend works ▸

School score 7/100 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 3 means this suburb sits in the bottom 2% of Australian suburbs we hold a figure for (14,490 of them). It describes the suburb, so every school in Christie Downs shares it. It is a community indicator, not a school-quality score, and is not ICSEA. How the Community Advantage Index is calculated ▸

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Nearby schools

The closest schools to Christies Beach High School, ordered by distance — not by any score.

Christie Downs Primary School Government primary · 608 m
FAME - Flexible Accredited Meaningful Engagement Catholic special · 737 m
Cardijn College - Marian Campus Catholic secondary · 948 m
Calvary Lutheran Primary School Independent primary · 1.2 km
Lonsdale Heights Primary School Government primary · 1.4 km
Noarlunga Downs Primary School Government primary · 1.5 km

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