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Sassafras Primary School

399 Mt Dandenong Tourist Road, Sassafras, 3787

Primary government school · North-Eastern Victoria · metropolitan · 27 students (10 female, 17 male)

sassafrasps.vic.edu.au

Measures from the 2025 Annual Report to the School Community · school number 3222 · source document · JSON

Against similar schools+0.2percentage points above its Similar Schools group, averaged across 8 measures
Parent satisfaction85.7%similar schools 93.6%
Student wellbeing72.5%4-year average; similar schools 77.7%
Students27enrolled 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 8 comparable measures below.

Performance Summary

NAPLAN

MeasureThis schoolSimilar schoolsStateGap
Year 3 reading, Strong or Exceeding (2025; 58.3% over 3 years)58.3%60.8%69.5%-2.5
Year 3 numeracy, Strong or Exceeding (2025; 75.0% over 3 years)75.0%67.5%66.2%+7.5
Year 5 reading, Strong or Exceeding (2025; 81.8% over 3 years)100.0%72.1%73.9%+27.9
Year 5 numeracy, Strong or Exceeding (2025; 90.9% over 3 years)100.0%70.3%69.1%+29.7
Reading growth, Year 3 to 5 (2025)not published (withheld by the Department of Education for privacy)
Numeracy growth, Year 3 to 5 (2025)not published (withheld by the Department of Education for privacy)

Teacher judgement

MeasureThis schoolSimilar schoolsStateGap
English at or above standard, Prep-6 (2025)62.9%83.1%86.3%-20.2
Mathematics at or above standard, Prep-6 (2025)86.7%85.4%84.2%+1.3

Wellbeing and engagement

MeasureThis schoolSimilar schoolsStateGap
Sense of connectedness, Years 4-6 (2025; 69.3% over 4 years)96.7%76.6%77.1%+20.1
Managing bullying, Years 4-6 (2025; 75.8% over 4 years)100.0%79.7%76.4%+20.3
Average absence days, Prep-6 (2025; 31.8 over 4 years)25.526.321.5-0.8

Surveys

MeasureThis schoolSimilar schoolsStateGap
Parent satisfaction (2025)85.7%93.6%82.0%-7.9
Staff view of school climate (2025)not published (withheld by the Department of Education for privacy)

Enrolments at each February census

Enrolments have shrunk 53.4% over 5 years.

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