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Harkaway Primary School

65-67 King Road, Harkaway, 3806

Primary government school · South-Eastern Victoria · metropolitan · 111 students (51 female, 60 male)

www.harkawayps.vic.edu.au

Measures from the 2025 Annual Report to the School Community · school number 1697 · source document · JSON

Against similar schools+7.5percentage points above its Similar Schools group, averaged across 9 measures
Parent satisfaction65.4%similar schools 83.2%
Student wellbeing82.7%4-year average; similar schools 75.2%
Students111enrolled in 2025

The Gap column is this school minus its Similar Schools group: the Department of Education's own comparison with government schools of similar intake. Positive is better, except for absence days. The headline figure averages the 9 comparable measures below.

Performance Summary

NAPLAN

MeasureThis schoolSimilar schoolsStateGap
Year 3 reading, Strong or Exceeding (2025; 71.8% over 3 years)71.4%66.9%69.5%+4.5
Year 3 numeracy, Strong or Exceeding (2025; 76.3% over 3 years)69.2%62.5%66.2%+6.7
Year 5 reading, Strong or Exceeding (2025; 71.8% over 3 years)54.5%70.2%73.9%-15.7
Year 5 numeracy, Strong or Exceeding (2025; 77.5% over 3 years)66.7%64.1%69.1%+2.6
Reading growth, Year 3 to 5 (2025)87.5%73.4%74.7%+14.1
Numeracy growth, Year 3 to 5 (2025)66.7%70.5%74.0%-3.8

Teacher judgement

MeasureThis schoolSimilar schoolsStateGap
English at or above standard, Prep-6 (2025)90.8%84.3%86.3%+6.5
Mathematics at or above standard, Prep-6 (2025)not published (withheld by the Department of Education for privacy)

Wellbeing and engagement

MeasureThis schoolSimilar schoolsStateGap
Sense of connectedness, Years 4-6 (2025; 84.2% over 4 years)82.6%75.7%77.1%+6.9
Managing bullying, Years 4-6 (2025; 81.2% over 4 years)79.4%77.1%76.4%+2.3
Average absence days, Prep-6 (2025; 17.4 over 4 years)17.922.421.5-4.5

Surveys

MeasureThis schoolSimilar schoolsStateGap
Parent satisfaction (2025)65.4%83.2%82.0%-17.8
Staff view of school climate (2025)79.6%76.4%77.4%+3.2

Enrolments at each February census

Enrolments have shrunk 26.0% over 5 years.

A special focus

As an Authorised International Baccalaureate World School, our vision aligns with the IB Mission Statement.

From this school’s own Annual Report. Other schools with a particular focus are listed here.

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