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Chatham Primary School Council president Caroline Kennon with Pamela Nasiakos and Caroline’s children August and Clementine.

‘Can we have more children, please?’ The $5.4 million school renovation sitting half-empty

This “state of the art” government school in Melbourne’s east is desperate for more children to teach.

  • Noel Towell

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Violet, who is Year 5, has tutoring for the NAPLAN test, but it is a part of her overall tutoring program.

‘It’s very hard for parents to understand’: The education trend defying official advice

Parents have been urged not to waste their money amid fears the trend may be counterproductive.

  • Nicole Precel
St Bernard’s School Principal Julie Di Noto with students Hugo Stacey, Rose Boardman and JJ Pisani.

The top 200: Victoria’s star NAPLAN primary and secondary schools revealed

Principals at Victoria’s top-performing schools have shared how their students secured top marks for reading, writing and numeracy.

  • Bridie Smith and Caroline Schelle
Your guide to NAPLAN results 2025

How to read your school’s NAPLAN results

More than a million students took the test, but results take more than raw marks into account. Here’s a guide to reading them.

  • Jackson Graham
Pictures of Amelia Trinh (7), Golda Paparo (8) and Leopold Boyatzis (8) at Jolimont Primary School in Jolimont, Perth.

The WA schools excelling in NAPLAN for 2025

The students at high-achieving schools showed above-average literacy and numeracy results when compared with pupils of similar socio-educational backgrounds.

  • Holly Thompson
Warrigal Road State School Principal Andrew Duncan greets students at the school gates.

How Brisbane’s 50 biggest primary schools performed in national tests

Students at some of Brisbane’s largest primary schools are among Queensland’s most improved, with state schools holding their own against top private schools.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
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Valentina Smith, Indie Walles ,6 years, Katherine Sheedy, Charlotte Rogers, 10 years and Kensington Primary School council president David Frazer.

The Melbourne suburbs where school places will become harder to find

A shift to higher-density living in Melbourne will put pressure on inner-city schools, some of which are trying to get ahead of the squeeze.

  • Jackson Graham
Parents at Christ Church Grammar School are complaining of a plan to increase class sizes.

Backlash at upmarket primary school over class size shock

Parents cry foul as $35,000-a-year private school in Melbourne increases class sizes next year.

  • Noel Towell
Glenala State High School in Brisbane.

One-year blowouts hit Queensland school Olympics projects

Six multimillion-dollar projects funded more than two years ago and set to wrap up by December have not started, although the state promised new delivery dates.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Harbord Public School on Sydney’s Northern Beaches is conducting a transition program for their 120 Year 6 students, essentially running the final term of school in a high school format.

Why high school is coming early for these northern beaches students

To tackle the anxiety at the end of primary school, Harbord Public has radically reformatted term four in an experiment the Department of Education is keen to replicate.

  • Emily Kowal

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