Trinity Anglican School and Peace Lutheran College top FNQ NAPLAN rankings
An independent analysis of newly-released 2023 NAPLAN results has revealed the schools which performed the best in the Year 5 and Year 9 tests.
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Trinity Anglican School and Peace Lutheran College are Far North Queensland’s top performing NAPLAN schools.
An independent analysis of newly-released 2023 NAPLAN results has revealed the schools which performed the best in the Year 5 and Year 9 tests.
Peace Lutheran College, in Kamerunga, had the best primary results than any other school in the Far North Queensland, scoring an average of 517.0 this year.
Principal Shane Jurecky said: “At Peace, our purpose is on always striving to be better today than we were yesterday.”
“In every interaction, we strive to improve in our learning – be it literacy, numeracy or in our social connections. This growth mindset is the focus of our learning environment.
“We celebrate the learning journey.
“While this point in time results can demonstrate achievement, the real point of celebration is seeing how students grow and develop every day, be they high achievers who need extension or students in the early stages of developing new knowledge and skills.”
Caravonica State School in Caravonica was the second best for the region with an average score of 513.6, while Trinity Anglican School in White Rock was the third best with an average score of 510.4.
The top performing secondary school was Trinity Anglican School, in White Rock, where the average result was 606.8.
TAS Principal Paul Sjogren said the school is blessed to have outstanding staff who go above and beyond.
“In saying that, it is rewarding to see their hard work evident in the latest results,’ Mr Sjogren said.
“We don’t focus on preparing for the test in isolation but rather our staff and students work hard all year around to be the best they can be.
“NAPLAN is a measure of academic performance at a particular point in time.
“However, it does provide some useful data that allows us to improve our teaching and learning practices.
“At TAS, we use this data to focus in depth on the needs for improved learning between two testing points: for example, Year 3- Year 5. Be that curriculum, pedagogy, resources, at both a cohort and individual level.”
Cairns School of Distance Education in Manunda was the second best for the region with an average score of 595.8, while St Monica’s College in Cairns was the third best with an average score of 592.2.
To determine how each school performed in 2023, the scores for all five test subjects for the student cohort (Yr 5 or Yr 9) were combined and the average found.
Special schools, schools with fewer than 20 students enrolled, and schools that did not report any results for NAPLAN subjects were excluded from the analysis.
The figures were independently compiled from the Federal Government’s MySchool website.
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Originally published as Trinity Anglican School and Peace Lutheran College top FNQ NAPLAN rankings
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