Forest Hill Public School

Government primary school in Forest Hill, NSW

School score 43Area advantage (CAI) 33 · bottom 32% of suburbsArea Y12 53.6%Attendance 87.4% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)

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

Attendance: 87.4% (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	159 students (NSW government schools, August census, FTE)
Community Advantage Index (area percentile)	33 — bottom 32% of Australian suburbs (Below-average)
Area Year-12 attainment	53.6%
School attendance	87.4% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)
Value-add (attendance vs area)	+1.7 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)	-5 pts (NSW, Semester 1, 2019 to 2024)
Diversity	21% Indigenous · 11% 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	Forest Hill, NSW
Website	foresthill-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Attendance, 2019 to 2024 (NSW series, Semester 1). Forest Hill Public School recorded 92.4% in 2019 and 87.4% (NSW, Semester 1 2024) — 5 percentage points lower. The vertical scale is set to this school's own attendance range (80–100%), 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 43/100 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 33 means this suburb sits in the bottom 32% of Australian suburbs we hold a figure for (14,490 of them). It describes the suburb, so every school in Forest Hill 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 Forest Hill Public School, ordered by distance — not by any score.

Kooringal High School Government secondary · 7.8 km
Ladysmith Public School Government primary · 7.8 km
Sturt Public School Government primary · 8.2 km
Lake Albert Public School Government primary · 8.5 km
Kooringal Public School Government primary · 8.5 km
Willans Hill School Government special · 9.2 km

All schools in Forest Hill ▸

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