Brisbane’s best primary and secondary schools ranked

Brisbane’s best primary and secondary schools have been revealed based on how they fared in NAPLAN last year. See where your school ranks. FULL LIST

BRISBANE’s best schools have been revealed, with seven more primary schools clawing their way to the top since last year.

Sunnybank Hills, Fig Tree Pocket and Eagle Junction state schools, alongside Anglican Church Grammar School, Brisbane Boys’ College and St Peters Lutheran College Indooroopilly moved up the ranks to score a perfect 100 this year.

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While Brisbane Grammar School, St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School, Somerville House, St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School and Ashgrove, Indooroopilly, Rainworth, Ironside and Wishart state schools retained their ranking of 100 since last year.

The Better Education website list compared 202 schools’ NAPLAN scores in 2019 to provide information on the best schools and how they compared around the state.

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The website is run independently of government and describes its aim as providing “informative and comparative school results including school rankings or ratings and lists of best performing schools, to parents wanting to make choices about schooling for their children”.

The overall position for secondary schools was determined by 2019 Year 9 results and for primary, analysis of Year 5 results.

The best overall score is an index of performance, not a ranking, the best score is 100 and the worst is 60, according to the independent website.

The same analysis was completed for 78 of Brisbane’s best high schools and revealed only one state school made the top 7, Brisbane State High School.

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It was alongside Brisbane Grammar and Brisbane Girls Grammar Schools, St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School, St Joseph’s College, Gregory Terrace, Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie), and Ormiston College.

However, exclusive analysis by The Courier-Mail last year revealed Queensland performance declined in more than half of all NAPLAN categories and scored lower than the national average in every year level and in every subject.

While writing scores improved across the board since 2018, results in Year 5,7 and 9 were still lower than the subject’s 2011 base year.

Even the worst-ranked schools, Highland Reserve State School, Eatons Hill State School and Springfield Central State School received a ranking of 90.

However, a Department of Education spokesman slammed the reliability of the list.

“The department does not support the creation of simplistic league tables based on a narrow

measure of academic performance.

“These measures without context often do not summarise the diversity of education that schools provide.”

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Instead, the spokesman pointed parents to resources including the “Choosing a School” page on the Education Queensland website, or the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority’s My School website.