Five Islands Secondary College

Government secondary school in Port Kembla, NSW

School score 24Area advantage (CAI) 24 · bottom 23% of suburbsArea Y12 42.5%Attendance 75.7% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)

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Attendance: 75.7% (NSW, Semester 1 2024). The NSW department publishes a rate for this school, and its change since 2019.
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Sector	Government
Type	Secondary
Year levels	7–12
Enrolment	272 students (NSW government schools, August census, FTE)
Community Advantage Index (area percentile)	24 — bottom 23% of Australian suburbs (Below-average)
Area Year-12 attainment	42.5%
School attendance	75.7% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)
Value-add (attendance vs area)	-9.3 pts vs what its area predicts among NSW schools (NSW, Semester 1 2024) — below its area. In plain words: fewer students turn up here than at NSW schools sitting in similarly advantaged areas.
Attendance trend (vs 2019)	+0.8 pts (NSW, Semester 1, 2019 to 2024)
Specialty programs	Senior College
Diversity	6% Indigenous · 12% language background
Suburb	Port Kembla, NSW
Website	fiveislands-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

Attendance, 2019 to 2024 (NSW series, Semester 1). Five Islands Secondary College recorded 74.9% in 2019 and 75.7% (NSW, Semester 1 2024) — 0.8 percentage points higher. The vertical scale is set to this school's own attendance range (70–80%), 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 24/100 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 24 means this suburb sits in the bottom 23% of Australian suburbs we hold a figure for (14,490 of them). It describes the suburb, so every school in Port Kembla 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 Five Islands Secondary College, ordered by distance — not by any score.

Port Kembla Public School Government primary · 370 m
Kemblawarra Public School Government primary · 1.9 km
Primbee Public School Government primary · 3.2 km
Warrawong Public School Government primary · 3.4 km
Warrawong High School Government secondary · 3.7 km
Lake Heights Public School Government primary · 4.2 km

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Ask the school itself about enrolment, tours and out-of-zone places: 4274 0621 · fiveislands-h.schools.nsw.gov.au