Which school is Darwin’s wealthiest?

Darwin’s richest and most expensive schools have been revealed in a new data analysis. Is your child’s school one of the richest?

A recent data analysis found the Essington International School is Darwin’s richest school.

DARWIN’S richest school raked in more than $68.7 million in three years, while parents wanting to send their kids to Darwin’s most expensive school have to fork out $9572, tightly held school statistics reveal.

An independent analysis of school financial records from the MySchool website have shown the massive amount of money some schools make every year, and how little some schools are forced to scrape by on.

The Essington International School Darwin in Rapid Creek had a higher gross income than any other school in the Darwin region.

The school made a gross income of $68.7 million, according to financial records from the three most recently available years.

Darwin’s richest schools

The Essington International School Darwin: $68.7 million

Darwin High School: $67.6 million

Haileybury Rendall School: $52.2 million

Casuarina Senior College: $52.2 million

Dripstone Middle School: $32.6 million

Darwin Middle School: $32.1 million

O’Loughlin Catholic College: $30.3 million

Sanderson Middle School: $27.9 million

Nakara Primary School: $23.5 million

Marrara Christian College: $22.6 million

The region’s second richest school was Darwin High School, in Darwin City, which had a gross income of $67.6 million.

The school with the third highest gross income was Haileybury Rendall School, in Berrimah, which made $52.2 million.

FULL LIST: Darwin’s richest and most expensive schools

The figures include all fees, charges and parental contributions as well as state and federal Government funding and any other private sources over the 2015, 2016 and 2017 years.

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It does not include any deductions for capital works or debt servicing.

The analysis does not include special schools or schools that did not have complete financial data in MySchool for one or more of 2015, 2016 or 2017.

Milkwood Steiner School in Berrimah had the lowest gross income of any school in the Darwin region. It made $3.4 million over the three year period.

The region’s school most expensive school was the Essington International School Darwin in Rapid Creek where the average amount parents had to fork out in fees, charges and contributions in 2017 was $9572.

Darwin’s most expensive schools

The Essington International School Darwin: $9572

Haileybury Rendall School: $7032

NT Christian College: $5943

Milkwood Steiner School: $4548

Marrara Christian College: $3915

O’Loughlin Catholic College: $3744

St John’s Catholic College: $2766

St Mary’s Catholic Primary School: $1929

Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School: $1770

Holy Family Catholic Primary School: $1666

Haileybury Rendall School, in Berrimah, had the Darwin region’s second highest average parental contributions with $7032.

The school with the third highest parental contributions was NT Christian College, in Marrara, where the average contribution was $5943.