Dee Why Public School

Government primary school in Dee Why, NSW

School score 81Area advantage (CAI) 89 · top 11% of suburbsArea Y12 73.6%Attendance 91% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)

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Attendance: 91% (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	478 students (NSW government schools, August census, FTE)
Community Advantage Index (area percentile)	89 — top 11% of Australian suburbs (Higher advantage)
Area Year-12 attainment	73.6%
School attendance	91% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)
Value-add (attendance vs area)	+1.2 pts vs what its area predicts among NSW schools (NSW, Semester 1 2024) — outperforms its area. In plain words: more students turn up here than at NSW schools sitting in similarly advantaged areas.
Attendance trend (vs 2019)	-2.4 pts (NSW, Semester 1, 2019 to 2024)
Diversity	0% Indigenous · 67% 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	Dee Why, NSW
Website	deewhy-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Attendance, 2019 to 2024 (NSW series, Semester 1). Dee Why Public School recorded 93.4% in 2019 and 91% (NSW, Semester 1 2024) — 2.4 percentage points lower. The vertical scale is set to this school's own attendance range (85–100%), 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 81/100 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 89 means this suburb sits in the top 11% of Australian suburbs we hold a figure for (14,490 of them). It describes the suburb, so every school in Dee Why 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 Dee Why Public School, ordered by distance — not by any score.

Fisher Road School Government special · 384 m
Narraweena Public School Government primary · 1.1 km
Northern Beaches Secondary College Cromer Campus Government secondary · 1.3 km
Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus Government secondary · 1.5 km
Cromer Public School Government primary · 1.6 km
Curl Curl North Public School Government primary · 1.8 km

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