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Macquarie Fields Public School

Fields Rd, Macquarie Fields NSW 2564

PublicPrimaryYears K-6

Macquarie Fields Public School is a government primary school in Macquarie Fields, NSW from Kindergarten to Year 6 with about 828 students. Its ICSEA is 1,048, where the national average is 1000.

828students
1,048ICSEA · higher than 73% of NSW primary schools
79%language background other than English
4%Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
45teaching staff (FTE)

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

Attendance and enrolment

90.6%attendance rate, 2024 · -2.4 pts over 3 years
-15%enrolment change over 5 years
66FOEI (Family Occupation and Education Index; higher means more disadvantage, NSW average about 100)

About this school, from public sources

Publicly available information describes Macquarie Fields Public School as a large K-6 government primary school in south-west Sydney, established in 1957 and enrolling around 950 students. The school highlights strong literacy and numeracy programs, including enrichment classes for gifted and talented students and a Reading Recovery program for early readers. It offers a broad range of extracurricular activities such as choir, steel band, chess, dance and skipping, alongside active sporting programs, and promotes an inclusive, multicultural school community with an active Parents and Citizens Association.

Often praised

  • literacy and numeracy programs
  • varied extracurricular activities
  • inclusive, multicultural community

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

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Location and nearby schools

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

SchoolSuburbTypeDistanceICSEAStudents
Holy Family Catholic Primary SchoolIngleburnCatholic primary1.2 km1,066397
Macarthur Adventist CollegeMacquarie FieldsIndependent k–12 / combined1.3 km1,051695
Ingleburn Public SchoolIngleburnPublic primary1.6 km985424
Curran Public SchoolMacquarie FieldsPublic primary1.6 km883275
Guise Public SchoolMacquarie FieldsPublic primary1.6 km880221
Sackville Street Public SchoolIngleburnPublic primary2.5 km971474
Glenwood Public SchoolGlenfieldPublic primary3.0 km988216
Glenfield Public SchoolGlenfieldPublic primary3.0 km1,070470

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
Goonengerry Public SchoolGoonengerryPublic primary · K-6571,048
Kingswood Public SchoolOCKingswoodPublic primary · K-64991,048
Tathra Public SchoolTathraPublic primary · K-61711,048
Wamberal Public SchoolWamberalPublic primary · K-64751,048
Albury Public SchoolAlburyPublic primary · K-66371,049
Blakehurst Public SchoolBlakehurstPublic primary · K-62561,049

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.