Lucas Heights Community School

132 Old Illawarra Rd, Barden Ridge NSW 2234

PublicK–12 / combinedYears K-12

Lucas Heights Community School is a government combined primary and secondary school in Barden Ridge, NSW from Kindergarten to Year 12 with about 795 students. Its ICSEA is 1,038, where the national average is 1000.

795students

1,038ICSEA · higher than 92% of NSW primary schools

16%language background other than English

4%Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander

70teaching staff (FTE)

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

Attendance and enrolment

89.1%attendance rate, 2024 · -2.3 pts over 3 years

-1%enrolment change over 5 years

79FOEI (Family Occupation and Education Index; higher means more disadvantage, NSW average about 100)

2support classes

Enrolments by year, 2016–2025. Latest 796.

About this school, from public sources

Based on the school's own website and other public listings, Lucas Heights Community School is a K-12 government school in Barden Ridge, Sutherland Shire, established in 1992 as one of the few NSW public schools spanning kindergarten to Year 12 on a single site. It runs an Inspire program for high-potential and gifted learners, VET pathways, and support for diverse learning needs, alongside languages including French, Italian and Spanish. Music is noted as a particular strength, with regular performances part of school life.

Often praised

strong music program
gifted/high-potential Inspire program
K-12 single-site campus

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 Lucas Heights Community School on My School · Why some data is missing

HSC 2025

0.18Band 6 / E4 results per Year 12 student

16Band 6 / E4 results 2025

88Year 12 students 2025

Last 5 years

Year	Band 6 / E4 results per Year 12 student	Band 6 / E4 results
2025	0.18	16
2024	0.13	9
2023	0.25	15
2022	0.18	11
2021	0.32	18

Counts are derived from NESA's published merit lists and exclude students who opted out of publication. The per-student figure divides each year's count by that year's Year 12 enrolment from ACARA's August census, so it is approximate. NSW law does not permit ranking schools by results, so no rank or percentile is shown.

Location and nearby schools

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

School	Suburb	Type	Distance	ICSEA	Students
Shire Christian School	Barden Ridge	Independent k–12 / combined	0.4 km	1,116	926
Southern Cross Baptist Church Christian School	Engadine	Independent k–12 / combined	2.7 km	1,108	42
Inaburra School	Bangor	Independent k–12 / combined	3.1 km	1,123	1,211
Sydney Montessori School	Gymea	Independent k–12 / combined	7.7 km	1,118	147
St Mark's Coptic Orthodox College	Wattle Grove	Independent k–12 / combined	10.5 km	1,132	896
St George Christian School	Hurstville	Independent k–12 / combined	12.0 km	1,159	845
Danebank - An Anglican School for Girls	Hurstville	Independent k–12 / combined	12.2 km	1,146	1,043
Macarthur Adventist College	Macquarie Fields	Independent k–12 / combined	12.5 km	1,051	695

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
Alexandria Park Community SchoolPartiallyOC	Alexandria	Public k–12 / combined · K-12	1,312	1,052

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.