Russell Vale Public School

Government primary school in Russell Vale, NSW

School score 53Area advantage (CAI) 48 · bottom 48% of suburbsArea Y12 44.2%Attendance 91.4% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)

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Attendance: 91.4% (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).

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Sector	Government
Type	Primary
Year levels	K–6
Enrolment	262 students (NSW government schools, August census, FTE)
Community Advantage Index (area percentile)	48 — bottom 48% of Australian suburbs (Mid)
Area Year-12 attainment	44.2%
School attendance	91.4% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)
Value-add (attendance vs area)	+4.6 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)	-2 pts (NSW, Semester 1, 2019 to 2024)
Diversity	3% Indigenous · 5% 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	Russell Vale, NSW
Website	russellvale-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Attendance, 2019 to 2024 (NSW series, Semester 1). Russell Vale Public School recorded 93.4% in 2019 and 91.4% (NSW, Semester 1 2024) — 2 percentage points lower. The vertical scale is set to this school's own attendance range (85–100%), 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 53/100 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 48 means this suburb sits in the bottom 48% of Australian suburbs we hold a figure for (14,490 of them). It describes the suburb, so every school in Russell Vale 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 Russell Vale Public School, ordered by distance — not by any score.

Woonona East Public School Government primary · 1.1 km
Corrimal Public School Government primary · 1.1 km
Bellambi Public School Government primary · 1.5 km
Woonona Public School Government primary · 1.5 km
Woonona High School Government secondary · 1.6 km
Corrimal High School Government secondary · 1.7 km

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