James Ruse Agricultural High School
Government secondary school in Carlingford, NSW
What this page can and cannot tell you 1 of 2 school-level measures
- Attendance: 96.3% (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 ▸
- No mapped enrolment zone. We hold one for 2,030 of the 3,393 NSW schools in this snapshot; this school is not among them. Why ▸
Specialty & excellence programs
This school runs specialist programs many parents never hear about:
- Agriculture Agricultural specialist school · derived — the department’s general page
- Academic (Selective) Academically selective entry · derived — the department’s general page
The rows 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 | Secondary |
| Year levels | 7–12 |
| Enrolment | 857 students (NSW government schools, August census, FTE) |
| Community Advantage Index (area percentile) | 95 — top 6% of Australian suburbs (Higher advantage) |
| Area Year-12 attainment | 78.7% |
| School attendance | 96.3% (NSW, Semester 1 2024) |
| Value-add (attendance vs area) | +6 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) | -1.4 pts (NSW, Semester 1, 2019 to 2024) |
| Academic selectivity | Fully selective |
| Specialty programs | Agriculture · Academic (Selective) |
| Diversity | 0% Indigenous · 97% language background |
| Suburb | Carlingford, NSW |
| Website | jamesruse-h.schools.nsw.gov.au |
School score 93/100 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 95 means this suburb sits in the top 6% of Australian suburbs we hold a figure for (14,490 of them). It describes the suburb, so every school in Carlingford 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 James Ruse Agricultural High School, ordered by distance — not by any score.
What to do next
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- Ask the school itself about enrolment, tours and out-of-zone places: 9871 7126 · jamesruse-h.schools.nsw.gov.au