Portland Central School

Government central/community school in Portland, NSW

School score 6Area advantage (CAI) 6 · bottom 5% of suburbsArea Y12 29.3%Attendance 75.5% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)

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

Attendance: 75.5% (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).

How our numbers work ▸

Sector	Government
Type	Central/Community
Year levels	K–12
Enrolment	203 students (NSW government schools, August census, FTE)
Community Advantage Index (area percentile)	6 — bottom 5% of Australian suburbs (Lower advantage)
Area Year-12 attainment	29.3%
School attendance	75.5% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)
Value-add (attendance vs area)	-8.2 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)	-11.3 pts (NSW, Semester 1, 2019 to 2024)
Diversity	39% Indigenous · 3% 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	Portland, NSW
Website	portland-c.schools.nsw.gov.au

Attendance, 2019 to 2024 (NSW series, Semester 1). Portland Central School recorded 86.8% in 2019 and 75.5% (NSW, Semester 1 2024) — 11.3 percentage points lower. The vertical scale is set to this school's own attendance range (70–95%), 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 6/100 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 6 means this suburb sits in the bottom 5% of Australian suburbs we hold a figure for (14,490 of them). It describes the suburb, so every school in Portland 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 Portland Central School, ordered by distance — not by any score.

Cullen Bullen Public School Government primary · 7.8 km
Meadow Flat Public School Government primary · 10.4 km
Wallerawang Public School Government primary · 10.9 km
Cooerwull Public School Government primary · 20.8 km
Lithgow Public School Government primary · 21.9 km
Zig Zag Public School Government primary · 22.6 km

All schools in Portland ▸

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