Mackay’s best primary schools ranked

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Left to right - Whitsunday Anglican School Principal Mr Andrew Wheaton, students Mathew Jaksch and Anna Larsen and author and Scientist-in-Residence Cristy Burne at the Whitsunday Voices Youth Literature Festival

MACKAY'S best primary schools have been revealed, with one school just missing out on a perfect score of 100.

Whitsunday Anglican School in Beaconsfield was the top performer in the region, with a score of 99.

Coningsby State School, just north of Mackay, came in second with a score of 95, while West Mackay's St Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School rounded out the top three with a score of 93.

St Mary's Catholic Primary School (South Mackay), MacKillop Catholic Primary School (Andergrove), Emmanual Catholic Primary School (Mount Pleasant), St Brendan's Catholic Primary School (Rural View), Glenella State School, Beaconsfield State School and Northview State School (Mount Pleasant) completed the top 10 list with scores in the high 80s and low 90s.

 

BEST SCHOOLS: Ranked from 11 to 20

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.

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".

Whitsunday Anglican School mathematics teacher David Pritchard has been named Mackay's Favourite Teacher.

The overall position for primary schools was determined by 2019 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.

No Mackay primary schools received a perfect 100 score.

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