Port Augusta West Primary School

Government primary school in Port Augusta West, SA

School score 25Area advantage (CAI) 13 · bottom 12% of suburbsArea Y12 35.8%Attendance 87.2% (SA, Semester 1 2023)

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

Attendance: 87.2% (SA, Semester 1 2023). The SA department publishes a rate for this school, and its change since 2019.
No destinations figure. We hold no destinations figure for any SA 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 (SA 2023, CC BY 4.0).

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Sector	Government
Type	Primary
Year levels	Reception to Year 6
Community Advantage Index (area percentile)	13 — bottom 12% of Australian suburbs (Lower advantage)
Area Year-12 attainment	35.8%
School attendance	87.2% (SA, Semester 1 2023)
Value-add (attendance vs area)	+3.4 pts vs what its area predicts among SA schools (SA, Semester 1 2023) — outperforms its area. In plain words: more students turn up here than at SA schools sitting in similarly advantaged areas.
Enrolment growth (~5 yr)	-42.3% (SA, FTE, Term 3 2019→Term 3 2024) shrinking (population & capacity signal — not quality, not popularity)
Attendance trend (vs 2019)	-4 pts (SA, Semester 1, 2019 to 2023)
Enrolment catchment	Primary zone shown on the map above — check if an address is in this zone ▸ (SA 2023, CC BY 4.0)
Suburb	Port Augusta West, SA

Attendance, 2019 to 2023 (SA series, Semester 1). Port Augusta West Primary School recorded 91.2% in 2019 and 87.2% (SA, Semester 1 2023) — 4 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. SA's series counts every full-time student, with no year-level restriction, so compare it only with other SA schools. Attendance is the department's own figure; it is not a measure of teaching quality. How the attendance trend works ▸

School score 25/100 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 13 means this suburb sits in the bottom 12% of Australian suburbs we hold a figure for (14,490 of them). It describes the suburb, so every school in Port Augusta West 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 Port Augusta West Primary School, ordered by distance — not by any score.

Caritas College Catholic combined · 503 m
Flinders View Primary School Government primary · 1.2 km
Port Augusta Special School Government special · 1.2 km
Port Augusta Secondary School Government secondary · 1.8 km
Carlton School Government Aboriginal/Anangu · 2.1 km
Augusta Park Primary School Government primary · 3.2 km

All schools in Port Augusta West ▸

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