Aspect Hunter School
Thornton NSW 2322
Aspect Hunter School is an independent special school in Thornton, NSW with about 290 students across all campuses. Its ICSEA is 1,008, 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, 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: Aspect Hunter School in Thornton is a purpose-built independent school in a close-knit community, catering for students from Kindergarten to Year 12 on the autism spectrum. It offers specialised, evidence-informed autism-specific programs, with primary satellite classes in several Hunter and mid-north coast locations and a distance education program supporting students across NSW.
Often praised
- Autism-specific programs
- Satellite classes across region
- Kindergarten to Year 12
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 Aspect Hunter School on My School · Why some data is missing
Location and nearby schools
Straight-line distances. List every school within 5 to 50 km.
| School | Suburb | Type | Distance | ICSEA | Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alesco Secondary College - Woodberry Campus | Woodberry | Independent special | 2.9 km | — | — |
| Hunter River Community School | Metford | Public special | 3.1 km | 958 | 70 |
| Arise Christian College | Metford | Independent special | 3.3 km | 971 | 61 |
| Maitland Christian School | Metford | Independent k–12 / combined | 3.3 km | 1,047 | 832 |
| Woodberry Learning Centre | Woodberry | Public special | 3.3 km | 844 | 26 |
| Aspect Hunter School, Tarro Satellite | Tarro | Independent special | 3.8 km | — | — |
| Hunter Valley Grammar School | Ashtonfield | Independent k–12 / combined | 4.1 km | 1,134 | 1,161 |
| OneSchool Global NSW - Maitland | East Maitland | Independent k–12 / combined | 4.7 km | 975 | 108 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aspect Riverina School | Albury | Independent special | 90 | 1,011 |
| Pacific Hope Christian School | Tweed Heads South | Independent special | 85 | 1,014 |
| NextSense School - Sign Bilingual Program | Macquarie Park | Independent special | 17 | 1,001 |
| Aspect South Coast School | Corrimal | Independent special | 129 | 1,017 |
| NextSense School - Blind Deafblind Program | Macquarie Park | Independent special | 7 | 1,017 |
| North Coast Pathway | Alstonville | Independent special · 9-10 | 26 | 998 |
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.