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Kentucky Public School

Noalimba Ave, Kentucky NSW 2354

PublicPrimaryYears K-6

Kentucky Public School is a government primary school in Kentucky, NSW from Kindergarten to Year 6 with about 28 students. Its ICSEA is 1,002, where the national average is 1000.

28students
1,002ICSEA · higher than 58% of NSW primary schools
0%language background other than English
0%Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
3teaching staff (FTE)

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

Attendance and enrolment

84.2%attendance rate, 2024 · -5.1 pts over 3 years
-22%enrolment change over 5 years
75FOEI (Family Occupation and Education Index; higher means more disadvantage, NSW average about 100)

About this school, from public sources

Public information from Kentucky Public School's own website describes a small Kindergarten to Year 6 school in the village of Kentucky in the NSW New England region, serving the local community for over 150 years. The school follows the NSW curriculum with a focus on STEM, sport, and creative arts, and offers support programs for high potential and gifted students as well as students with additional needs or wellbeing support. It presents itself as a close-knit rural school connected to its surrounding community.

Often praised

  • long-standing community school
  • STEM, sport and creative arts focus
  • support for gifted and additional-needs students

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 Kentucky 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.

SchoolSuburbTypeDistanceICSEAStudents
Uralla Central SchoolUrallaPublic k–12 / combined13.8 km901264
St Joseph's Primary SchoolUrallaCatholic primary14.4 km98252
Rocky River Public SchoolUrallaPublic primary16.8 km96339
Woolbrook Public SchoolWoolbrookPublic primary25.4 km90011
Kellys Plains Public SchoolArmidalePublic primary27.4 km1,05427
St Patrick's Primary SchoolWalchaCatholic primary28.2 km1,02794
Walcha Central SchoolWalchaPublic k–12 / combined28.8 km906230

Schools with a similar ICSEA in NSW

Same sector and type, ICSEA within 25 points. This is the comparison that separates teaching from postcode.

SchoolSuburbTypeStudentsICSEA
Fairy Meadow Public SchoolFairy MeadowPublic primary · P-63421,002
Fern Bay Public SchoolFern BayPublic primary · K-61821,002
Kapooka Public SchoolKapookaPublic primary · K-6521,002
Ringrose Public SchoolGreystanesPublic primary · K-63391,002
Tocumwal Public SchoolTocumwalPublic primary · K-61541,002
Alstonville Public SchoolOCAlstonvillePublic primary · K-62801,001

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.