Mona Vale Public School

Waratah St, Mona Vale NSW 2103

PublicPrimaryYears K-6Opportunity class

Mona Vale Public School is a government primary school in Mona Vale, NSW from Kindergarten to Year 6 with about 671 students. It hosts an opportunity class for Years 5 and 6. Its ICSEA is 1,096, where the national average is 1000.

671students

1,096ICSEA · higher than 86% of NSW primary schools

22%language background other than English

2%Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander

60teaching staff (FTE)

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

Attendance and enrolment

91.4%attendance rate, 2024 · -2.1 pts over 3 years

-38%enrolment change over 5 years

39FOEI (Family Occupation and Education Index; higher means more disadvantage, NSW average about 100)

2support classes

Enrolments by year, 2016–2025. Latest 671.

About this school, from public sources

This note is drawn from public online sources, including the school's own website and NSW education pages. Mona Vale Public School is a K-6 government primary in a beachside setting. It describes a supportive, friendly community, with some families spanning several generations. Specialist teachers deliver music and PDHPE, and the school highlights creative and performing arts, sport, chess, public speaking and student leadership. It hosts support classes and offers opportunity classes for high potential and gifted students in Years 5 and 6.

Often praised

Creative and performing arts focus
Specialist music and sport teaching
Gifted and support class 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: 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 Mona Vale Public School on My School · Why some data is missing

Opportunity class

Mona Vale Public School hosts an opportunity class for Years 5 and 6. Placement is by the opportunity class placement test sat in Year 4.

All selective and OC schools

Location and nearby schools

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

School	Suburb	Type	Distance	ICSEA	Students
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School	Mona Vale	Catholic primary	0.2 km	1,104	417
Newport Public School	Newport	Public primary	2.1 km	1,093	556
St Luke's Grammar School, Bayview Campus	Bayview	Independent primary	2.2 km	—	—
Narrabeen North Public School	North Narrabeen	Public primary	2.5 km	1,076	580
Elanora Heights Public School	Elanora Heights	Public primary	3.3 km	1,087	387
Galstaun College	Ingleside	Independent k–12 / combined	3.7 km	1,046	328
Bilgola Plateau Public School	Bilgola Plateau	Public primary	3.9 km	1,121	344
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School	Narrabeen	Catholic primary	4.0 km	1,102	195

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
Annangrove Public School	Annangrove	Public primary · K-6	142	1,096
Ashfield Public SchoolOC	Ashfield	Public primary · K-6	474	1,096
Mortdale Public School	Mortdale	Public primary · K-6	350	1,096
Ryde Public SchoolOC	Ryde	Public primary · K-6	497	1,096
Tempe Public School	Tempe	Public primary · K-6	346	1,096
Dudley Public School	Dudley	Public primary · K-6	245	1,095

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.