Alesco Secondary College
Cooks Hill NSW 2300
Alesco Secondary College is an independent special school in Cooks Hill, NSW for Years 9–12 with about 664 students across all campuses. Its ICSEA is 949, where the national average is 1000.
Annual report (2025) ↗ on the publisher's site. About this link
Sector, ICSEA, Enrolments, Language background, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander share, Year range, Teaching staff, School website: ACARA School Profile 2025. Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). Enrolments and staff cover all campuses of this school. Terms
About this school, from public sources
Drawn from public online sources: Alesco Secondary College's Cooks Hill campus, founded in 2002, offers Years 9-12 with programs leading to the Higher School Certificate alongside a wellbeing program. It has a purpose-built hall and commercial kitchen used for a student cafe program, and a central Newcastle location near the art gallery, library and museum, with varied local excursions.
Often praised
- Wellbeing and learning balance
- Student cafe program
- Central Newcastle location
This note was generated from publicly available online sources (the school's website, official pages and online feedback) as at October 2026. It reflects what is said online, not an assessment by SchoolList AU or any government body, and it deliberately records only neutral and positive points. Confidence: high. Verify anything important with the school. Report an inaccuracy.
NAPLAN
School-level NAPLAN results are published by ACARA on My School under terms that do not allow them to be reproduced here. See Alesco Secondary College on My School · Why some data is missing
HSC 2025
Counts are derived from NESA's published merit lists and exclude students who opted out of publication. The per-student figure divides each year's count by that year's Year 12 enrolment from ACARA's August census, so it is approximate. NSW law does not permit ranking schools by results, so no rank or percentile is shown.
Location and nearby schools
Straight-line distances. List every school within 5 to 50 km.
| School | Suburb | Type | Distance | ICSEA | Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macquarie College | Wallsend | Independent k–12 / combined | 1.1 km | 1,110 | 1,060 |
| Newcastle Waldorf School | Glendale | Independent k–12 / combined | 1.2 km | 1,072 | 237 |
| Alesco Secondary College - Northlakes Campus | Argenton | Independent special | 3.6 km | — | — |
| John Hunter Hospital School | New Lambton Heights | Public special | 3.7 km | — | — |
| Margaret Jurd College | Shortland | Independent special | 4.5 km | 889 | 103 |
| Bishop Tyrrell Anglican College | Fletcher | Independent k–12 / combined | 4.7 km | 1,085 | 860 |
| Kotara School | Kotara | Public special | 5.0 km | 816 | 25 |
| Newcastle Junior School | Hillsborough | Public special | 5.4 km | 940 | 63 |
Schools with a similar ICSEA in NSW
Same sector and type, ICSEA within 25 points. This is the comparison that separates teaching from postcode.
| School | Suburb | Type | Students | ICSEA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Hope Christian School | Townsend | Independent special | 51 | 951 |
| Elouera Special School | Cootamundra | Independent special | 28 | 943 |
| Dunlea Centre, Australia's Original Boys' Town | Engadine | Independent special · 4-12 | 55 | 962 |
| North Academy | West Wallsend | Independent special · 9-11 | 35 | 966 |
| Shoalhaven River College | Bomaderry | Independent special · 9-12 | 48 | 931 |
| Odyssey College | Eagle Vale | Independent special · 11 | 86 | 929 |
About this data
Figures are from the latest published datasets and can lag the school by a year. Confirm enrolment rules and catchment boundaries with the school or department before relying on them.