Five Dock Public School

13/33 Henry St, Five Dock NSW 2046

PublicPrimaryYears P-6

Five Dock Public School is a government primary school in Five Dock, NSW from Prep to Year 6 with about 314 students. Its ICSEA is 1,082, where the national average is 1000.

314students

1,082ICSEA · higher than 82% of NSW primary schools

43%language background other than English

4%Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander

25teaching staff (FTE)

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

Attendance and enrolment

92.2%attendance rate, 2024 · -1.7 pts over 3 years

-15%enrolment change over 5 years

45FOEI (Family Occupation and Education Index; higher means more disadvantage, NSW average about 100)

3support classes

Enrolments by year, 2016–2025. Latest 314.

About this school, from public sources

Publicly available information indicates Five Dock Public School is a co-ed K-6 government primary school in Sydney's inner west, established in 1861 and long connected to the local community. The school runs a Support Unit and a Department Preschool alongside mainstream classes, and offers extra-curricular activities including PSSA sport, gardening club, debating, public speaking, choir, dance and a school band. It describes its culture as inclusive, with a focus on academic expectations and student wellbeing.

Often praised

long-standing community school
support unit and preschool
broad extra-curricular options

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: low. 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 Five Dock Public 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
All Hallows Catholic Primary School	Five Dock	Catholic primary	0.9 km	1,125	462
Dobroyd Point Public School	Haberfield	Public primary	1.5 km	1,149	116
Haberfield Public School	Haberfield	Public primary	1.5 km	1,125	542
Russell Lea Public School	Russell Lea	Public primary	1.5 km	1,140	428
Abbotsford Public School	Abbotsford	Public primary	1.6 km	1,113	368
Holy Innocents' Catholic Primary School	Croydon	Catholic primary	1.7 km	1,088	156
St Joan of Arc Catholic Primary School	Haberfield	Catholic primary	1.8 km	1,083	110
Croydon Public School	Croydon	Public primary	1.8 km	1,119	576

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
Canterbury Public School	Canterbury	Public primary · K-6	346	1,082
Newrybar Public School	Newrybar	Public primary · K-6	61	1,082
Northmead Public School	Northmead	Public primary · K-6	614	1,082
Avoca Beach Public School	Avoca Beach	Public primary · K-6	455	1,081
Greystanes Public SchoolOC	Greystanes	Public primary · K-6	540	1,081
Jannali East Public School	Jannali	Public primary · K-6	313	1,081

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.