Columba Catholic College (Hackett Tce, Charters Towers)
6-8 Hackett Terrace, Charters Towers QLD 4820
Columba Catholic College (Hackett Tce, Charters Towers) is a Catholic secondary school in Charters Towers, QLD for Years 7–12 with about 425 students across all campuses. Its ICSEA is 926, where the national average is 1000.
Annual report (2025) ↗ on the school's own page. About this link
ICSEA, Enrolments, Language background, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander share, Teaching staff: 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
Based on the school's own website and public directory listings, Columba Catholic College is a Catholic P-12 college in Charters Towers formed from the merger of Mount Carmel College, St Mary's College and St Columba's Primary School, with secondary schooling based at the Mt Carmel (Hackett Terrace) campus. It offers boarding for rural, regional, interstate and overseas students alongside day schooling, with pastoral care, guidance counselling, religious education and social justice programs, and a broad co-curricular and sporting offering across its roughly 600 students.
Often praised
- boarding for regional/interstate students
- strong pastoral care and counselling
- broad co-curricular and sports program
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 Columba Catholic College (Hackett Tce, Charters Towers) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Souls St Gabriels School (Charters Towers) | Charters Towers | Independent k–12 / combined | 0.4 km | 952 | 431 |
| Blackheath and Thornburgh College (Charters Towers) | Charters Towers | Independent k–12 / combined | 2.0 km | 965 | 379 |
| Charters Towers State High School | Charters Towers | Public high school | 2.6 km | 879 | 303 |
| Charters Towers School of Distance Education | Millchester | Public k–12 / combined | 3.1 km | 948 | 2,395 |
Schools with a similar ICSEA in QLD
Same sector and type, ICSEA within 25 points. This is the comparison that separates teaching from postcode.
| School | Suburb | Type | Students | ICSEA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southport Flexible Learning Centre (Southport) | Southport | Catholic high school · 7-11 | 90 | 935 |
| Albert Park Flexible Learning Centre (Milton) | Milton | Catholic high school · 11-12 | 104 | 943 |
| Hemmant Flexible Learning Centre (Hemmant) | Hemmant | Catholic high school · 7-12 | 81 | 903 |
| Youth and Community Learning Centre (Toowoomba) | Toowoomba | Catholic high school · 8-12 | 79 | 950 |
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.