Mount Blowhard Primary School
527 Millers Road, Blowhard VIC 3352
Mount Blowhard Primary School is a government primary school in Blowhard, VIC from Prep to Year 6 with about 80 students. Its ICSEA is 1,008, where the national average is 1000.
Annual report (2025) ↗ on the publisher's site. About this link
ICSEA, Language background, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander share, Teaching staff: ACARA School Profile 2025. Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). Terms
Attendance and enrolment
Students by year level, latest published year.
About this school, from public sources
Drawn from public online sources: Mount Blowhard Primary School is a government Prep to Year 6 school about 15 kilometres north of Ballarat, opened in 1878. It has around 79 students and a low student-to-teacher ratio. The curriculum covers literacy, numeracy, science, physical education, art, technology, history and music, and the school publishes its vision and wellbeing approach online.
Often praised
- Broad curriculum
- Small school community
- Published wellbeing approach
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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 Blowhard Primary 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miners Rest Primary School | Miners Rest | Public primary | 5.4 km | 994 | 342 |
| Creswick Primary School | Creswick | Public primary | 9.3 km | 1,009 | 142 |
| St Augustine's School | Creswick | Catholic primary | 9.3 km | 1,038 | 137 |
| Creswick North Primary School | Creswick | Public primary | 9.5 km | 968 | 55 |
| Our Lady Help of Christians School | Wendouree | Catholic primary | 11.2 km | 1,017 | 101 |
| Forest Street Primary School | Wendouree | Public primary | 11.3 km | 919 | 225 |
| Yuille Park Community College | Wendouree | Public k–12 / combined | 11.3 km | 840 | 212 |
| Wendouree Primary School | Wendouree | Public primary | 12.8 km | 917 | 116 |
Schools with a similar ICSEA in VIC
Same sector and type, ICSEA within 25 points. This is the comparison that separates teaching from postcode.
| School | Suburb | Type | Students | ICSEA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacchus Marsh Primary School | Bacchus Marsh | Public primary · P-6 | 755 | 1,008 |
| Clayton South Primary School | Clayton South | Public primary · P-6 | 96 | 1,008 |
| Eynesbury Primary School | Eynesbury | Public primary · P-6 | 466 | 1,008 |
| Findon Primary School | Mill Park | Public primary · P-6 | 269 | 1,008 |
| Kialla Central Primary School | Kialla | Public primary · P-6 | 60 | 1,008 |
| Kurmile Primary School | Officer | Public primary · P-6 | 146 | 1,008 |
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.