NAPLAN results Tasmania: 50 most improved schools across five years

A small school in Hobart’s northern suburbs has been the state’s biggest improver when it comes to year 5 NAPLAN testing over the past five years. SEE THE TOP MOST IMPROVED IN OUR INTERACTIVE.

JESSICA HOWARD and GEOFF EGAN

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December 7, 2019 - 12:10AM

Goodwood Primary School principal Louise Anders with students, Amala Webb, 11, and Jackson Dunning, 12. The school was the best improvers for NAPLAN results for year 5 over the past 5 years. Photo: ROGER LOVELL

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YEAR 5 students at Goodwood Primary School can claim bragging rights as the most improved at NAPLAN testing over the past five years.

An analysis of five years’ worth of NAPLAN results has revealed the schools that have improved their Year 5 and Year 9 student scores the most.

The Tasmanian school that improved their Year 5 results the most between 2014 and 2018 was Goodwood Primary where the average results across all subjects improved by 24.8 per cent.

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Average Year 9 results improved the most at King Island District High School, with a jump of 10.4 per cent across the period.

The analysis compared each school’s combined results for each NAPLAN subject in 2014 and compared to the same results in 2018.

The state’s second biggest improvement in Year 5 results over those five years was the Australian Christian College, where scores increased 24.3 per cent.

The third biggest Year 5 improver was the Bracknell Primary School where results increased 13.5 per cent over the five-year period.

The Tasmanian school with the second biggest Year 9 improvement between 2014 and 2018 was Bothwell District High School where results improved 9.8 per cent.

Average results at Geneva Christian College increased 5.5 per cent, the third highest increase in the state.

Goodwood Primary School principal Louise Anders said the result came off the back of hard work and dedication of staff and students.

“We have such a strong, dedicated, committed team and there’s been a lot of work over the last five years of research and applying best practice and knowing where our students are at,” she said.

“We identify key goals we’re going to have on our improvement agenda for the year and the research behind it then staff actively engage to improve those areas.”

Ms Anders said the northern suburbs school of 125 students across six classes did not specifically prepare for NAPLAN testing each year.

“That doesn’t achieve sustained growth,” she said.

“We don’t teach to the test because we don’t know what’s going to be in it and it’s about having a good literacy and numeracy program generally all year round.”

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TASMANIA’S TOP YEAR 5 NAPLAN IMPROVERS OVER FIVE YEARS: