Newtown High School of Performing Arts
Government secondary school in Newtown, NSW
What this page can and cannot tell you 1 of 2 school-level measures · zone mapped
- Attendance: 88.7% (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 High_coed catchment is the shaded area on this page (NSW, CC BY 4.0).
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 | Secondary |
| Year levels | 7–12 |
| Enrolment | 1,144 students (NSW government schools, August census, FTE) |
| Community Advantage Index (area percentile) | 100 — top 1% of Australian suburbs (Higher advantage) |
| Area Year-12 attainment | 82.7% |
| School attendance | 88.7% (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) | -3.6 pts (NSW, Semester 1, 2019 to 2024) |
| Specialty programs | Creative & Performing Arts |
| Diversity | 2% Indigenous · 29% language background |
| Enrolment catchment | High_coed zone shown on the map above — check if an address is in this zone ▸ (NSW, CC BY 4.0) |
| Suburb | Newtown, NSW |
| Website | newtown-h.schools.nsw.gov.au |
School score 86/100 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 100 means this suburb sits in the top 1% of Australian suburbs we hold a figure for (14,490 of them). It describes the suburb, so every school in Newtown shares it. It is a community indicator, not a school-quality score, and is not ICSEA. How the Community Advantage Index is calculated ▸
3 kids-activity providers in Newtown
Nearby schools
The closest schools to Newtown High School of Performing Arts, ordered by distance — not by any score.
Buying or renting in this zone?
A school's catchment is one of the things families weigh when choosing a home — but a home in Newtown is not automatically inside this school's zone. This school's High_coed catchment is the shaded area on the map above.
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What to do next
- Check your address is in this zone ▸ A home in Newtown is not automatically inside it.
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- Ask the school itself about enrolment, tours and out-of-zone places: 9519 1544 · newtown-h.schools.nsw.gov.au