WA schools with top NAPLAN results revealed

The schools in Western Australia with the most improved NAPLAN results over the past four years have been revealed, with government schools forming the majority of the top 20 list.

Parents will be able to view their child’s school results from 2022 on Wednesday on the My School website.

Caladenia and Ballajura Primary Schools were at the top of the list.

Caladenia Primary School is at the top of the list, and performed ‘well above’ the average across the board for their Year 3 and 5 scores.

The majority of students at the school have a language background other than English – a trend that followed many of the top-performing schools.

Ballajura Primary School and Community College were also at the top of the list, ‘well above’ or ‘above’ the national average in all subject areas.

Bunbury Senior High School was the only school in the top 20 from a regional area.

In total, there were 14 public schools, five independent schools and just one Catholic school.

Four of the independent schools on the list were Islamic colleges.

Schools on the website are broken down by NAPLAN subject, and colour coded to show how they performed against other students with a similar background. You can also compare the schools to all students nationally.

The top 20 schools were those who features the most green boxes.

Centre for Independent Studies education program director Glenn Fahey said it was not surprising government schools filled most places on the list.

He said state schools routinely performed as well as, or better than, non-government schools on standardised tests.

“At a macro level, one of the unspoken findings in the data year-on-year is that … government schools do hold their own on average,” he said.

“State schools do really well and unfortunately that gets sometimes buried in simplistic analysis. But when you compare similarly advantaged schools, I think public schools on the whole can be really proud of their efforts.”

Authority Chief Executive David de Carvalho said for a second year in a row, the national results had defied predictions of drastic falls in performance related to COVID.

“In the year-to-year data from 2021 to 2022, an increase in writing results for Year 9 Indigenous students and students from a language background other than English are welcome,” he said.

“There was also an increase in grammar and punctuation results for Indigenous students in Year 7. While these results are just for one year, it’s hoped this signals the start of longer-term trends.”

This year’s NAPLAN tests are being held earlier in the year, from mid-March, to give teachers more time to act on students’ strengths and weaknesses.

Earlier this month, education ministers agreed to creating new NAPLAN proficiency levels, meaning results from this year will be reported in four levels rather than 10 bands.

with Adam Carey and Nicole Precel

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