Hunter School of Performing Arts

Government central/community school in Broadmeadow, NSW

School score 58 Creative & Performing ArtsArea advantage (CAI) 67 · top 33% of suburbsArea Y12 59.7%Attendance 87.7% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)

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Attendance: 87.7% (NSW, Semester 1 2024). The NSW department publishes a rate for this school, and its change since 2019.
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Specialty & excellence programs

This school runs specialist programs many parents never hear about:

Creative & Performing Arts Performing Arts specialist school · derived — the department’s general page

The row marked derived come from a flag in the NSW Department of Education feed, © NSW Department of Education: the program name is ours, the row shows no entry marker because nothing we hold says how entry works there, and the link goes to the department’s general specialisation page, which does not name this school.

Sector	Government
Type	Central/Community
Year levels	K–12
Enrolment	1,090 students (NSW government schools, August census, FTE)
Community Advantage Index (area percentile)	67 — top 33% of Australian suburbs (Above-average)
Area Year-12 attainment	59.7%
School attendance	87.7% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)
Value-add (attendance vs area)	-0.5 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)	-2.6 pts (NSW, Semester 1, 2019 to 2024)
Specialty programs	Creative & Performing Arts
Diversity	6% Indigenous · 12% language background
Suburb	Broadmeadow, NSW
Website	huntperfor-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/

Attendance, 2019 to 2024 (NSW series, Semester 1). Hunter School of Performing Arts recorded 90.3% in 2019 and 87.7% (NSW, Semester 1 2024) — 2.6 percentage points lower. The vertical scale is set to this school's own attendance range (80–95%), 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 58/100 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 67 means this suburb sits in the top 33% of Australian suburbs we hold a figure for (14,490 of them). It describes the suburb, so every school in Broadmeadow 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 Hunter School of Performing Arts, ordered by distance — not by any score.

Merewether High School Government secondary · 857 m
Adamstown Public School Government primary · 879 m
Lambton High School Government secondary · 928 m
Hamilton North Public School Government primary · 1.0 km
New Lambton South Public School Government primary · 1.2 km
New Lambton Public School Government primary · 1.4 km

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Ask the school itself about enrolment, tours and out-of-zone places: 4952 3355 · huntperfor-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/