Best schools in Australia revealed as 2024 NAPLAN results are published
2024’s NAPLAN scores are out, revealing which parts of the country are achieving the greatest academic success. Here is your guide to the results by state.
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Australia’s top performing NAPLAN schools have been revealed with the 2024 testing results released today.
An independent analysis of newly-released 2024 NAPLAN results has revealed the schools which performed the best in the Year 5 and Year 9 tests.
To determine how each school performed in 2024, the scores for all five test subjects for the student cohort (Yr 5 or Yr 9) were combined and the average found.
See how each state fared below >>>
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TASMANIA
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Independent schools have dominated Tasmania’s NAPLAN scores this year, with nine of the 10 top performing secondary schools all being outside the state education system.
The list of the island state’s 50 highest achieving schools shows that the all girls Fahan School at Sandy Bay came out on top in both the primary and secondary results.
Year 9 Fahan students were the best performers in writing, reading, spelling, and grammar, and had the third highest numeracy scores.
Government schools featured more prominently in the NAPLAN results for primary schools, with Princes Street Primary School, Mount Stuart Primary School, and South Hobart Primary School ranking in second, third, and fourth, respectively.
At the secondary level, however, the only government school to feature in the top 10 was Taroona High School, which posted the ninth best results.
The list of results is dominated by schools in the Greater Hobart area, revealing a gap in socio-educational advantage.
TOP PRIMARY
Fahan School
Princes Street Primary School
Mount Stuart Primary School
The Friends’ School
Channel Christian School
TOP SECONDARY
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Fahan School
The Friends’ School
Tarremah Steiner School
Calvin Christian School
NORTHERN TERRITORY
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The NT News conducted an analysis of the 2024 NAPLAN results to determine the highest performing Year 5 and Year 9 cohorts in the Territory.
Independent schools continue to record the highest results, however two government primary schools surged into the top five, with one school jumping 21 places to claim third best in the Territory.
Topping the primary school ranking for the third consecutive year was Haileybury Rendall School.
High-flyer Durack Primary School jumped from 24th last year, to place third among all the Territory’s primary schools in 2024.
In the secondary schools category, The Essington School also continued its streak, placing first for the third year in a row.
Darwin Middle School led the government secondary schools, placing second overall.
TOP PRIMARY
Haileybury Rendall School
The Essington School
Durack Primary School
Larrakeyah Primary School
Alice Springs School Of The Air
TOP SECONDARY
The Essington School
Darwin Middle School
Haileybury Rendall School
St Philip’s College
Nightcliff Middle School
NEW SOUTH WALES
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James Ruse Agricultural High School once again topped the Year 9 rankings in the 2024 NSW NAPLAN results, bolstered once again by a powerful numeracy result.
Sydney Grammar School’s Edgecliff primary campus easily topped the Year 5 rankings respectively for another year.
Both schools leveraged their top ranking average scores with particularly high numeracy results, well ahead of every other school in the state.
The school to give the dominant James Ruse a scare was instead North Sydney Girls High School - coming in second with a score of 722.6 aided by a strong reading result.
The music-focused Conservatorium High School improved remarkably against other top-ranked schools from last year, jumping from 15th to fifth in 2024.
TOP PRIMARY
Sydney Grammar School
Abbotsleigh
Woollahra Public School
Matthew Pearce Public School
Beecroft Public School
TOP SECONDARY
James Ruse Agricultural High School
North Sydney Girls High School
Baulkham Hills High School
Sydney Girls High School
Conservatorium High School
VICTORIA
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Victoria’s top 40 secondary schools from 2023 have posted a mixed bag of results this year, with some elite colleges surging ahead while others suffered significant drops.
A Herald Sun analysis found several top-performing state and private high schools – which have fees of more than $35,000 per year – plummeted in their average year 9 NAPLAN results in the past 12 months.
The 2024 NAPLAN results were released on the My School website on Wednesday.
Initial analysis shows leading Kew Catholic girls’ school Genazzano FCJ College, which achieved a NAPLAN score of 610.4, dropped 19.6 points compared to the previous year, while all-boys’ school St Kevin’s College scored 621.4 – slipping 12.4 points.
Presbyterian Ladies’ College in Burwood, the top performing school in the state last year, experienced a small deficit in NAPLAN points, achieving 667 compared to 671.2 in 2023.
*Primary school results were not collected under the embargo access but rankings will be available later this week
TOP PRIMARY
Haileybury College
Presbyterian Ladies’ College
Lighthouse Christian College Cranbourne
Camberwell Grammar School
Ballarat Clarendon College
TOP SECONDARY
Melbourne High School
MacRobertson Girls High School
Nossal High School
Suzanne Cory High School
Ballarat Clarendon College
QUEENSLAND
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Queensland’s private schools continue to make up the bulk of the top 50 best NAPLAN performers.
The Courier-Mail analysis, based on last year’s top 50 primary and secondary schools, revealed seven state schools, all from Brisbane, were ranked in the top 25 primary schools list for 2024, while two state high schools - also in Brisbane - made it into the top 25 secondary schools list.
Queensland independent schools dominated the top 50 list, however, making up 70 per cent of primary and secondary schools.
Just six Catholic schools appeared in the top 50.
Sunnybank State School took out the top primary school spot, moving up from second place last year. It was followed by Ipswich Grammar School in second spot and Citipointe Christian College coming in third.
For high schools, the selective Queensland Academy for Science Mathematics and Technology topped the list by a landslide for a second year in a row, followed by repeat podium of Brisbane Girls Grammar School and Brisbane Grammar School.
TOP PRIMARY
Sunnybank Hills State School
Ipswich Grammar School
Citipointe Christian College
Brisbane Grammar School
Ormiston College
TOP SECONDARY
Queensland Academy for Science Mathematics and Technology
Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Brisbane Grammar School
Somerville House
Ormiston College
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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Some of Adelaide’s best-performing schools have rocketed more than 10 places up the latest rankings of student literacy and numeracy test results.
Among the biggest movers are Richmond Primary School, which surged from 23rd to eighth place, and Pulteney Grammar School which rose from 25th to 11th.
The Advertiser analysed the average NAPLAN results of students in years 5 and 9 at 50 high-performing schools, ahead of the release of data today on every South Australian school by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA).
The analysis focuses on the 25 primary and 25 secondary schools which achieved the highest average scores in 2023, and how they fared in 2024.
Dara School for gifted children, in Morphettville, overtook Walkerville’s St Andrew’s School as the number one primary performer.
On the secondary list Southern Montessori School, in O’Sullivan Beach, leapfrogged long-running number one place holder Glenunga International High School.
TOP PRIMARY
Dara School
St Andrew’s School
St Peter’s Collegiate Girls’ School
Linden Park Primary School
Wilderness School
TOP SECONDARY
Southern Montessori School
Glenunga International High School
Seymour College
Walford Anglican School for Girls
Wilderness School
*Data was not collected for Western Australia
Originally published as Best schools in Australia revealed as 2024 NAPLAN results are published
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