NAPLAN 2025: The full list of Tasmania’s top schools revealed
Tasmania’s top performing schools have been revealed — and there’s a few surprises among new NAPLAN results. Search our graphic to see how your child’s school stacks up.
New NAPLAN data for schools across the country released on Wednesday has revealed that two northern Tasmanian schools have taken the top spots in the state for average results in primary and secondary.
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority is responsible for publishing the NAPLAN data and provides the detailed information of the full NAPLAN results for 2025 through the MySchool website.
Launceston’s John Calvin School ranked first for its average Year 5 results of 560.8 in NAPLAN across reading, writing, spelling, grammar and numeracy in primary school, while Newstead Christian School topped the state for its average Year 9 results of 627.2 in secondary.
Both schools are on the smaller side, with John Calvin School a combined K-10 private school boasting 112 students and Newstead Christian School another private school running from Prep to Year 10 with a total of 93 students.
For Year 5 results, private school Launceston Preparatory School ranked second with an average score of 541.8, followed by Albuera Street Primary School on 539.8 and Lenah Valley Primary School on 536.4.
For Year 9 results, The Friends’ School ranked second with an average score of 618.8, followed by Glenorchy’s OneSchool Global Tas on 614.4 and Calvin Christian School on 606.4.
In comparison to other Australian state and territories, Tasmania’s top primary and secondary schools still ranked second last only to Northern Territory for their average NAPLAN score.
The top score school state for Australia was New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory for both secondary and primary, with James Ruse Agricultural High School for 755.6 in secondary and Sydney Grammar School at 625.4.
ACARA also identified 20 Tasmanian schools that are beating their socio-educational advantage (SEA), or the average educational advantage of each school’s students based on information like their parents’ or carers’ occupations and education, school geographical location and the proportion of First Nations Australian students.
An equal number of public and private schools made the “schools making a difference” list, with seven of those based in southern Tasmania, 10 of those in the Launceston or North East region and three in the state’s West.
Half of the schools listed were designated primary schools, while seven were combined primary and secondary schools.
In the south, South Hobart Primary School, Dominic College, Lenah Valley Primary School, Illawarra Primary School, The Friends’ School, Southern Christian College and Fahan School made the list.
In the north, Perth Primary School, Deloraine High School, St Anthony’s Catholic School, Trevallyn Primary School, St Thomas More’s Catholic School, St Patrick’s College, Beaconsfield Primary School, Lilydale District School, Launceston Christian School, and St Leonards Primary School.
Devonport Christian School, Circular Head Christian School and Reece High School were all based in the West and North West.
ACARA has identified these schools as achieving above their SEA by having the highest average proportions of students making above-average progress across reading, writing and numeracy in NAPLAN and across available year level progressions.
Education Minister Jo Palmer said the release of NAPLAN data on My School will give parents and the public more information on schools across Australia.
“We know that education is the most powerful driver for improving economic and social outcomes in Tasmania, including health, life expectancy, happiness and productivity,” she said.
“The data shows most Tasmanian schools are performing comparably to schools with similar student backgrounds, with several schools lifting strongly in literacy and performing above expectations.”
Catholic Education Tasmania celebrated the recognition of four Catholic schools on the list – Dominic College in Glenorchy, St Anthony’s Catholic School in Riverside, St Patrick’s College in Launceston and St Thomas More’s Catholic School in Newstead.
Executive Director of Catholic Education Tasmania Dr Gerard Gaskin said the results offer a positive and encouraging picture of student learning.
“We’re encouraged by what we’re seeing in this year’s NAPLAN data,” he said.
“Maintaining pace with state and national figures is an important benchmark for us, and the strong progress shown by a number of our Catholic schools is a very positive sign.
“Over the past three years, we have made a deliberate and significant investment in teacher training in line with the Science of Learning.
“System-wide change takes time, usually three to five years, so the early uplift emerging in this data is exactly what we would expect to see at this stage.”
Originally published as NAPLAN 2025: The full list of Tasmania’s top schools revealed
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