The high-performing NAPLAN schools in your area

The high-performing NAPLAN schools in your area

These schools are consistently strong performers,and all say the key to success is happy,relaxed kids. Use our interactive to find the high achievers near you.

  • byEmma Koehn

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The WA schools achieving above and beyond in NAPLAN

The WA schools achieving above and beyond in NAPLAN

Find out which schools made the “high-achievers” list for 2023 based on their performance over the past three years relative to their region and socio-educational advantage.

  • byHolly Thompson
The public schools outperforming their private school rivals

The public schools outperforming their private school rivals

The Age has analysed the results of year 3 and 5 reading,writing and numeracy and found 15 public schools consistently outperforming high-fee private counterparts.

  • bySherryn Groch
Victoria’s NAPLAN high achievers for 2023 revealed

Victoria’s NAPLAN high achievers for 2023 revealed

A Mulgrave school where students speak more than 60 languages at home has been identified as a consistently high performer. Search your primary school’s result.

  • byRobyn Grace
The WA schools with top NAPLAN results revealed

The WA schools with top NAPLAN results revealed

Parents can now view their child’s school NAPLAN results,after the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority released the latest data from 2023 testing on Friday.

  • byHolly Thompson
The high-performing NAPLAN schools revealed

The high-performing NAPLAN schools revealed

Schools as diverse as Fairfield Heights Public,Plumpton High and Abbotsleigh and Newington are among the 100 in NSW to be identified as high achieving in this year’s results.

  • byChristopher Harris
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New school targets,funding boost needed to overhaul ‘entrenched’ disadvantage:report

New school targets,funding boost needed to overhaul ‘entrenched’ disadvantage:report

School systems would need to hit higher attendance and NAPLAN targets and provide greater funding transparency,under an expert panel’s proposals to the nation’s education ministers.

  • byLucy Carroll andAngus Thompson
‘The best school money can’t buy’:How a Sydney principal has transformed a once-rough school

‘The best school money can’t buy’:How a Sydney principal has transformed a once-rough school

Noel Dixon is on a mission. He’s changed his school’s teaching method and rolled out a series of ambitious initiatives – and parents are starting to take notice.

  • byLucy Carroll
Ten secrets of success across high-performing NSW schools
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Ten secrets of success across high-performing NSW schools

A new report reveals some of the key practices that stood out from some of the state’s public schools as part of the ambassador schools program.

  • byLucy Carroll
WA students told not to sit NAPLAN to improve school scores:report

WA students told not to sit NAPLAN to improve school scores:report

WA teachers have reported being directed to request “less able” students to absent themselves from NAPLAN,so the school could maintain or improve its aggregated score.

  • byHolly Thompson
NAPLAN results tell us there’s a major problem. But we may already have the solution
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NAPLAN results tell us there’s a major problem. But we may already have the solution

Narrowing the focus of teaching to literacy and numeracy outcomes in our children’s early years is proving to be detrimental to overall learning.

  • byRichard Evans