Lord Howe Island Central School

Government central/community school in Lord Howe Island, NSW

School score 52Area advantage (CAI) 45 · bottom 45% of suburbsArea Y12 54.5%Attendance 89.1% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)

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

Attendance: 89.1% (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 Central_primary catchment is the shaded area on this page (NSW, CC BY 4.0).

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Sector	Government
Type	Central/Community
Year levels	K–12
Enrolment	35 students (NSW government schools, August census, FTE)
Community Advantage Index (area percentile)	45 — bottom 45% of Australian suburbs (Mid)
Area Year-12 attainment	54.5%
School attendance	89.1% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)
Value-add (attendance vs area)	+2.5 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)	-1.9 pts (NSW, Semester 1, 2019 to 2024)
Diversity	0% Indigenous · 29% language background
Enrolment catchment	Central_primary zone shown on the map above — check if an address is in this zone ▸ (NSW, CC BY 4.0)
Suburb	Lord Howe Island, NSW
Website	lordhowe-c.schools.nsw.gov.au

Attendance, 2019 to 2024 (NSW series, Semester 1). Lord Howe Island Central School recorded 91% in 2019 and 89.1% (NSW, Semester 1 2024) — 1.9 percentage points lower. The vertical scale is set to this school's own attendance range (85–95%), 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 52/100 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 45 means this suburb sits in the bottom 45% of Australian suburbs we hold a figure for (14,490 of them). It describes the suburb, so every school in Lord Howe Island 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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Ask the school itself about enrolment, tours and out-of-zone places: 6563 2096 · lordhowe-c.schools.nsw.gov.au