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Waratah Special Developmental School

228 Banksia Street, Bellfield, 3081

Special government school · North-Western Victoria · metropolitan · 67 students (22 female, 45 male) · 51.0% with English as an additional language

www.waratahsds.vic.edu.au

Measures from the 2025 Annual Report to the School Community · school number 5144 · source document · JSON

Against similar schools-6.3percentage points below its Similar Schools group, averaged across 4 measures
Parent satisfaction92.9%similar schools 89.1%
Students67enrolled 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 4 comparable measures below.

Performance Summary

Senior secondary

MeasureThis schoolSimilar schoolsStateGap
Exiting to further study or full-time work (2024; 20.6% over 4 years)36.4%40.3%81.5%-3.9

Surveys

MeasureThis schoolSimilar schoolsStateGap
Parent satisfaction (2025)92.9%89.1%86.9%+3.8
Staff view of school climate (2025)67.9%68.5%68.0%-0.6

Enrolments at each February census

Enrolments have shrunk 1.2% over 5 years.

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