Armidale City Public School

Faulkner St, Armidale NSW 2350

PublicPrimaryYears K-6Opportunity class

Armidale City Public School is a government primary school in Armidale, NSW from Kindergarten to Year 6 with about 349 students. It hosts an opportunity class for Years 5 and 6. Its ICSEA is 963, where the national average is 1000.

349students

963ICSEA · higher than 39% of NSW primary schools

37%language background other than English

22%Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander

23teaching staff (FTE)

Teaching staff: ACARA School Profile 2025. Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). Terms

Attendance and enrolment

88.2%attendance rate, 2024 · -3.6 pts over 3 years

-23%enrolment change over 5 years

97FOEI (Family Occupation and Education Index; higher means more disadvantage, NSW average about 100)

Enrolments by year, 2016–2025. Latest 349.

About this school, from public sources

Public online sources describe Armidale City Public School as a K-6 government primary school in Armidale with a history spanning over 150 years and the motto "Excel with honour". The school is noted as a centre of excellence in multicultural education and hosts an opportunity class for high-potential and gifted students in Years 5 and 6, alongside its mainstream non-selective stream, with a stated focus on academic, sporting and cultural achievement and strong care for students.

Often praised

multicultural education focus
opportunity class for gifted students
long-standing school community

This note was generated from publicly available online sources (the school's website, official pages and online feedback) as at September 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: medium. 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 Armidale City Public School on My School · Why some data is missing

Opportunity class

Armidale City Public School hosts an opportunity class for Years 5 and 6. Placement is by the opportunity class placement test sat in Year 4.

All selective and OC schools

Location and nearby schools

Straight-line distances. List every school within 5 to 50 km.

School	Suburb	Type	Distance	ICSEA	Students
St Mary's Primary School	Armidale	Catholic primary	0.4 km	1,038	327
The Armidale School	Armidale	Independent k–12 / combined	0.9 km	1,097	625
Newling Public School	Armidale	Public primary	1.3 km	802	165
Drummond Memorial Public School	Armidale	Public primary	1.6 km	827	233
Minimbah Primary School	Armidale	Independent primary	1.9 km	697	47
OneSchool Global NSW - Armidale	Armidale	Independent k–12 / combined	1.9 km	981	35
Ben Venue Public School	Armidale	Public primary	2.1 km	1,008	509
New England Girls' School	Armidale	Independent k–12 / combined	2.3 km	1,047	247

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
Crookwell Public School	Crookwell	Public primary · K-6	220	963
Edensor Park Public School	Edensor Park	Public primary · K-6	286	963
Killarney Vale Public School	Killarney Vale	Public primary · K-6	477	963
Lake Albert Public School	Lake Albert	Public primary · K-6	434	963
Rocky River Public School	Uralla	Public primary · K-6	39	963
Walla Walla Public School	Walla Walla	Public primary · K-6	40	963

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.