Shoal Bay Public School

Government primary school in Shoal Bay, NSW

School score 37Area advantage (CAI) 30 · bottom 29% of suburbsArea Y12 37.6%Attendance 89.7% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)

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

Attendance: 89.7% (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 Primary catchment is the shaded area on this page (NSW, CC BY 4.0).

How our numbers work ▸

Sector	Government
Type	Primary
Year levels	K–6
Enrolment	237 students (NSW government schools, August census, FTE)
Community Advantage Index (area percentile)	30 — bottom 29% of Australian suburbs (Below-average)
Area Year-12 attainment	37.6%
School attendance	89.7% (NSW, Semester 1 2024)
Value-add (attendance vs area)	+4.2 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)	-2.4 pts (NSW, Semester 1, 2019 to 2024)
Diversity	16% Indigenous · 12% 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	Shoal Bay, NSW
Website	shoalbay-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Attendance, 2019 to 2024 (NSW series, Semester 1). Shoal Bay Public School recorded 92.1% in 2019 and 89.7% (NSW, Semester 1 2024) — 2.4 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 37/100 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 30 means this suburb sits in the bottom 29% of Australian suburbs we hold a figure for (14,490 of them). It describes the suburb, so every school in Shoal Bay 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 Shoal Bay Public School, ordered by distance — not by any score.

Tomaree Public School Government primary · 5.8 km
Tomaree High School Government secondary · 5.8 km
Tea Gardens Public School Government primary · 7.0 km
Anna Bay Public School Government primary · 9.5 km
Soldiers Point Public School Government primary · 10.4 km
Tanilba Bay Public School Government primary · 15.7 km

All schools in Shoal Bay ▸

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