Top performing Gympie NAPLAN schools revealed in last 5 years

Fresh analysis from five years worth of NAPLAN results has revealed Gympie’s top performing schools. See which schools received the best marks.

Scott Kovacevic

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November 29, 2022 - 5:00AM

Caitlyn Mullin, Pippa Smith and Pax McAllister celebrate Cooloola Christian College’s continued high performance in NAPLAN, with the school rated the top performer across the five year period from 2017 to 2021.

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An independent analysis of five years of NAPLAN results has revealed the schools which consistently performed the best in the Year 5 and Year 9 tests between 2017 and 2021.

Over that five-year period, Cooloola Christian College, in Gympie, had higher Year 5 results than any other school in the Gympie, scoring an average of 2483.3 each year.

St Patrick‘s Primary School in Gympie was the second best for the region with an average score of 2474.0, while Rainbow Beach State School in Rainbow Beach was the third best with an average score of 2470.3.

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The top performing Year 9 school was Cooloola Christian College, in Gympie, where the average yearly result was 2851.8 over the five years.

St Patrick‘s College in Gympie was the second best for the region with an average score of 2828.3, while Mary Valley State College in Imbil was the third best with an average score of 2795.5.

Cooloola Christian College director of teaching Sue Waltisbuhl said the school’s NAPLAN results reflected its teachers’ “commitment to excellence”.

Travis Nolan, Caitlyn Mullin, Pippa Smith, and Pax McAllister are among the cohort of Cooloola Christian College students whose NAPLAN performance continues to put the school at the top of the list.

Mrs Waltisbuhl said the focus on its teachers’ learning and collaboration across all year levels, from prep to Year 12, continued to benefit the students.

“(Our teachers) do not work in isolation,” Mrs Waltisbuhl said.

This commitment extended well beyond the 9am-3pm school day, she said.

To determine how each school performed between 2017 and 2021, their average scores for each year were combined and the yearly average found.

Special schools, schools with fewer than 20 students enrolled in either year, and schools that did not report any results for NAPLAN subjects in either year were excluded from the analysis.

The figures were independently compiled from the Federal Government‘s MySchool website.

Gympie’s best performing Year 5 schools between 2017 and 2021

Cooloola Christian College: 2483.3

St Patrick‘s Primary School: 2474.0

Rainbow Beach State School: 2470.3

Kin Kin State School: 2461.3

Gympie East State School: 2439.8

Jones Hill State School: 2415.8

Gympie Central State School: 2400.3

Gympie South State School: 2389.5

Gympie West State School: 2386.8

Mary Valley State College: 2353.5