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Southern Cross School of Distance Education

Government secondary school in East Ballina, NSW

Area advantage 69Year 12 55%
SectorGovernment
TypeSecondary
Year levels7–12
Enrolment77 students
Community Advantage Index69/100 — Above-average
Area Year-12 attainment55%
Specialty programsDistance Education
Diversity33% Indigenous · 11% language background
SuburbEast Ballina, NSW
Websitesthcrossc-d.schools.nsw.gov.au

No school score is shown for this school. No school-level attendance or destination data is published for it, so the only signals available describe East Ballina as an area — they are identical for every school in the suburb. Showing an area figure as a school rating would imply a judgement the data cannot support. How we rank schools ▸

Area advantage (our Community Advantage Index) is our own estimate of the surrounding community's socio-educational advantage, derived from ABS SEIFA — how it's calculated. It describes the suburb, so every school in East Ballina shares it. It is a community indicator, not a school-quality score, and is not ICSEA.