Macdonald Valley Public School

Government primary school in Central Macdonald, NSW

School score 58Area advantage (CAI) 76 · top 24% of suburbsAttendance 86.9% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)

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Attendance: 86.9% (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).

Sector	Government
Type	Primary
Year levels	K–6
Enrolment	13 students (NSW government schools, August census, FTE)
Community Advantage Index (area percentile)	76 — top 24% of Australian suburbs (Above-average)
School attendance	86.9% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)
Value-add (attendance vs area)	-1.9 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)	-5.1 pts (NSW, Semester 1, 2019 to 2024)
Diversity	0% Indigenous · 0% 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	Central Macdonald, NSW
Website	macdonaldv-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Attendance, 2019 to 2024 (NSW series, Semester 1). Macdonald Valley Public School recorded 92% in 2019 and 86.9% (NSW, Semester 1 2024) — 5.1 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 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 76 means this suburb sits in the top 24% of Australian suburbs we hold a figure for (14,490 of them). It describes the suburb, so every school in Central Macdonald 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 Macdonald Valley Public School, ordered by distance — not by any score.

Wisemans Ferry Public School Government primary · 7.3 km
Maroota Public School Government primary · 15.0 km
Brewongle Environmental Education Centre Government environmental education centre · 19.3 km
Colo Heights Public School Government primary · 22.3 km
Ebenezer Public School Government primary · 24.9 km
Cattai Public School Government primary · 27.1 km

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