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Walla Walla Public School and Ballina Coast High improve scores

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They are the schools turning the lives of students around, lifting their students’ NAPLAN results by massive amounts over the past five years.

An exclusive analysis of results by The Daily Telegraph reveals the schools that have improved their Year 5 and Year 9 student scores the most.

Walla Walla Public School in the state’s south improved their Year 5 results the most between 2014 and 2018, where the average results across all subjects improved by 23 per cent.

Average Year 9 results at Ballina Coast High School on the state’s north coast increased by 10.6 per cent, the biggest improvement in Central Coast.

The analysis compared each school’s combined results for each NAPLAN subject in 2014 and compared to the same results in 2018.

Daykin Stanger, 14, and brother Reece, 13, attend Ballina Coast High School.
Daykin Stanger, 14, and brother Reece, 13, attend Ballina Coast High School.

The state’s second biggest improvement in Year 5 results over those five years was Carrington Public School near Newcastle, where scores increased 21 per cent.

The third biggest Year 5 improver was Gunning Public School where results increased by 20 per cent over five years.

The NSW school with the second biggest Year 9 improvement between 2014 and 2018 was Coonamble High School in the Central Western Plains where results improved by 10.4 per cent.

Average results at Boorowa Central School in the South West Slopes increased 3.4 per cent, the third highest increase in the state.

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New South Wales’s 10 Year 5 NAPLAN improvers over five years

Walla Walla Public School: 23.0 per cent

Carrington Public School: 21.1 per cent

Gunning Public School: 20.4 per cent

Mullaley Public School: 20.4 per cent

St Mary’s Primary School: 19.4 per cent

St Joseph’s Primary School: 17.9 per cent

Coolah Central School: 17.9 per cent

Mendooran Central School: 17.9 per cent

St Michael’s Catholic Primary School: 17.8 per cent

Glebe Public School: 17.8 per cent

New South Wales’s 10 Year 9 NAPLAN improvers over five years

Ballina Coast High School: 10.6 per cent

Coonamble High School: 10.5 per cent

Boorowa Central School: 10.3 per cent

Parkes Christian School: 9.1 per cent

Moree Christian School: 8.7 per cent

Walgett Community College – High School: 8.7 per cent

Yeoval Central School: 8.6 per cent

Campbell House School: 8.3 per cent

Scots All Saints College: 8.0 per cent

Emmanuel Anglican College: 7.7 per cent

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