Penrith High School

Government secondary school in Penrith, NSW

School score 57 Academic (Selective)Area advantage (CAI) 35 · bottom 34% of suburbsArea Y12 49.8%Attendance 95.2% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)

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Attendance: 95.2% (NSW, Semester 1 2024). The NSW department publishes a rate for this school, and its change since 2019.
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Academic (Selective) Academically selective entry · derived — the department’s general page

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Sector	Government
Type	Secondary
Year levels	7–12
Enrolment	928 students (NSW government schools, August census, FTE)
Community Advantage Index (area percentile)	35 — bottom 34% of Australian suburbs (Below-average)
Area Year-12 attainment	49.8%
School attendance	95.2% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)
Value-add (attendance vs area)	+9.4 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)	-0.1 pts (NSW, Semester 1, 2019 to 2024)
Academic selectivity	Fully selective
Specialty programs	Academic (Selective)
Diversity	0% Indigenous · 94% language background
Suburb	Penrith, NSW
Website	penrith-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

Attendance, 2019 to 2024 (NSW series, Semester 1). Penrith High School recorded 95.3% in 2019 and 95.2% (NSW, Semester 1 2024) — 0.1 percentage points lower. The vertical scale is set to this school's own attendance range (90–100%), 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 57/100 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 35 means this suburb sits in the bottom 34% of Australian suburbs we hold a figure for (14,490 of them). It describes the suburb, so every school in Penrith 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 Penrith High School, ordered by distance — not by any score.

Penrith Public School Government primary · 217 m
Penrith South Public School Government primary · 967 m
Kingswood South Public School Government primary · 1.5 km
Kingswood High School Government secondary · 1.7 km
Wadangali Public School Government primary · 1.8 km
Cambridge Park Public School Government primary · 2.1 km

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Ask the school itself about enrolment, tours and out-of-zone places: 4721 0529 · penrith-h.schools.nsw.gov.au