NAPLAN results revealed: Ballina, Byron top schools searched

Ballina and Byron’s best and brightest schools have been revealed, with NAPLAN results showing learning from home affected some cohorts. See all the results.

Ballina and Byron Shire’s best and brightest have been celebrated with new NAPLAN data revealing how learning from home affected students over the past year.

A sample of the results from the region’s top schools reveal where students are both falling behind and surging forward.

In the 2021 round of NAPLAN, the biggest discrepancy between schools was found in year nine where Emmanuel Anglican College outshone its closest competitor Cape Byron Rudolf Steiner School by an average of 19.4 points across reading, writing, spelling, grammar and numeracy tests at an average score of 615.

This average out totalled East Ballina’s Southern Cross School of Distance Education by 118.4 points for the same grade.

Students at Cape Byron Rudolf Steiner School impressed with their Naplan results.

In the primary grades, competition closed ranks across the region with less than 100 averaged points difference between all schools.

Emmanuel Anglican College took out top average scores for both year three, five and seven at 462.4, 529.4 and 561.2 respectively.

Across year three, Ballina Public School and Lennox Head Public School students were showing real promise with both school students excelling above and well above students with similar backgrounds in all assessed categories.

This all-rounder excellence was revealed to be the same for the hardworking year five students of Southern Cross Public School.

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