Ranked: How every Gold Coast school performed in 2024 NAPLAN

Newly released NAPLAN results have revealed the top performing Gold Coast schools for 2024. Find out how your school did.

Tahlia Leathart

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December 4, 2024 - 4:00PM

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Prestigious The Southport School is among the highest achievers in analysis of newly-released 2023 NAPLAN results, showing the Gold Coast’s best and worst performing schools for Year 5 and 9.

The Southport School has come out on top for the second year in a row with the highest Year 5 NAPLAN results, scoring an average of 560.8.

The Southport School preparatory students. Picture: Supplied

TSS Preparatory School head Jeff Symms said he believed the secret to TSS’s success was consistency.

“It’s about having excellent teachers who are given great access to quality professional development,” he said.

“Doing your homework on your resourcing, and then making sure that all of the staff are using the same language, being consistent with how they teach and what they teach.

“I just think it’s about consistency, making sure there’s strong foundational skills in place - but the fundamentals is good quality staff who spend time on researching and understanding the best way to teach.

“To be honest where we rank year on year is not the focus, because that can change but what’s really pleasing is we’ve sat in the top few for many years now. It’s that sustained outcome success which is really important to us.

“If you know your individual students the way the teachers know them here, you know what you need to do to help them succeed.”

St Hilda’s School came in second with an average of 545.6, besting A.B. Paterson College which ranked third with an average result of 541.4. It pushed Somerset College out of the top three for the first time in at least four years.

St Hilda’s School, Southport, Gold Coast. Part of Queensland best boarding schools feature.

However, Somerset College ranked first for Year 9 results with an average score of 631 - a dip from its 2023 average of 635.4.

All Saints Anglican School in Merrimac was the second best in the city with an average score of 622.2, while St Hilda’s School in Southport ranked third with an average score of 621.8.

Both A.B. Paterson College and Emmanuel College fell out of the top three this year, ranking fourth and fifth respectively.

Somerset College, Gold Coast. Photo: Luke Ballard

Meanwhile, Upper Coomera State College ranked the lowest in the city for both its primary and secondary cohorts recording a Year 5 average score of 426.6 and a Year 9 average score of 503.2.

This marks the second year in a row where Upper Coomera State College has ranked among the lowest in the city, ranking second to lowest in both primary and secondary in 2023.

Oxenford State School ranked as the second lowest primary school with a Year 5 average score of 442.4 while Keebra Park State High School averaged 519.2 as the second lowest Year 9 cohort.