Mount Barker High School
2 Wellington Road, Mount Barker SA 5251
Mount Barker High School is a government secondary school in Mount Barker, SA for Years 7–12 with about 1,061 students. Its ICSEA is 1,010, where the national average is 1000.
Annual report ↗ on the publisher's site. About this link
ICSEA, Enrolments, Language background, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander share, Teaching staff, School website: ACARA School Profile 2025. Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). Terms
About this school, from public sources
This overview draws on publicly available information from the school's own website. Mount Barker High School is a government secondary school in South Australia's Adelaide Hills, catering for Years 7-12. It is recognised as the Department for Education's Specialist School in Positive Education, with dedicated wellbeing lessons for students. The school offers strong vocational education (VET) pathways and robotics programs, and is part of the Adelaide Hills Student Pathways network, giving students access to trade training facilities alongside SACE studies.
Often praised
- Positive Education specialist school
- strong VET and vocational pathways
- robotics program
- literacy/numeracy support (Connect program)
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 Mount Barker High School on My School · Why some data is missing
Location and nearby schools
Straight-line distances. List every school within 5 to 50 km.
| School | Suburb | Type | Distance | ICSEA | Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| King's Baptist Grammar School - Mount Barker Campus | Mount Barker | Independent k–12 / combined | 0.9 km | — | — |
| St Francis de Sales College | Mount Barker | Catholic k–12 / combined | 1.3 km | 1,051 | 1,047 |
| Cornerstone College | Mount Barker | Independent high school | 1.7 km | 1,094 | 754 |
| Mount Barker Waldorf School | Mount Barker | Independent k–12 / combined | 2.0 km | 1,087 | 321 |
| The Hills Christian Community School | Verdun | Independent k–12 / combined | 9.5 km | 1,092 | 640 |
| Oakbank School | Oakbank | Public k–12 / combined | 9.7 km | 993 | 337 |
| The Hills Montessori School - Wairoa Campus | Aldgate | Independent k–12 / combined | 12.0 km | 1,105 | 133 |
| The Hills Montessori School - Yultiwirra Campus | Aldgate | Independent k–12 / combined | 13.8 km | — | — |
Schools with a similar ICSEA in SA
Same sector and type, ICSEA within 25 points. This is the comparison that separates teaching from postcode.
| School | Suburb | Type | Students | ICSEA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banksia Park International HS | Banksia Park | Public high school · 7-12 | 1,055 | 1,009 |
| Golden Grove High School | Golden Grove | Public high school · 7-12 | 1,486 | 1,007 |
| Modbury High School | Modbury | Public high school · 7-12 | 926 | 1,005 |
| Seaton High SchoolGifted class: Gifted class | Seaton | Public high school · 7-12 | 917 | 1,001 |
| Underdale High SchoolGifted class: Gifted class | Underdale | Public high school · 7-12 | 629 | 1,000 |
| Springbank Secondary College | Pasadena | Public high school · 7-12 | 249 | 1,021 |
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.