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Mallawa Public School

Mallawa Road, Moree NSW 2400

PublicPrimaryYears K-6

Mallawa Public School is a government primary school in Moree, NSW from Kindergarten to Year 6 with about 11 students. Its ICSEA is 874, where the national average is 1000.

11students
874ICSEA · higher than 9% of NSW primary schools
0%language background other than English
27%Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
2teaching staff (FTE)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander share, Teaching staff: ACARA School Profile 2025. Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). Terms

Attendance and enrolment

88.1%attendance rate, 2024 · +2.8 pts over 3 years
-8%enrolment change over 5 years
145FOEI (Family Occupation and Education Index; higher means more disadvantage, NSW average about 100)

About this school, from public sources

Publicly available information, including the school's own website, describes Mallawa Public School as a small rural K-6 government primary school about 60km west of Moree, drawing students from surrounding farms and properties since opening in 1959. The school describes itself as offering a supportive, caring environment with individualised learning plans matched to each student's needs, alongside a focus on literacy and numeracy across all key learning areas.

Often praised

  • small class sizes
  • individualised learning support
  • close-knit farming 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

School-level NAPLAN results are published by ACARA on My School under terms that do not allow them to be reproduced here. See Mallawa 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
Bullarah Public SchoolBullarahPublic primary28.1 km88724

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
Conargo Public SchoolConargoPublic primary · K-612874
Hermidale Public SchoolHermidalePublic primary · K-613874
Tarcutta Public SchoolTarcuttaPublic primary · K-622874
Alma Public SchoolBroken HillPublic primary · P-6255875
Barrack Heights Public SchoolBarrack HeightsPublic primary · K-6192873
Emerton Public SchoolEmertonPublic primary · K-6218873

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.