Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Thamarrurr Catholic College
Wadeye, Port Keats NT 0822
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Thamarrurr Catholic College is a Catholic combined primary and secondary school in Port Keats, NT from Transition to Year 12 with about 467 students. Its ICSEA is 622, where the national average is 1000.
ICSEA, Enrolments, Language background, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander share, Teaching staff: ACARA School Profile 2025. Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). Terms
About this school, from public sources
Drawn from public online sources: Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Thamarrurr Catholic College is at Wadeye (Port Keats), about 400 km south west of Darwin. It began in 1935 as part of a Catholic mission and became a Catholic mainstream school in 2007. It caters for Preschool to Year 12, including a homelands classroom at Kuy, and provides bilingual instruction in Murrinhpatha. Facilities include a secondary campus, library, science block and trade training centre.
Often praised
- Bilingual Murrinhpatha instruction
- Preschool to Year 12
- Trade training centre
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NAPLAN
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Schools with a similar ICSEA in NT
Same sector and type, ICSEA within 25 points. This is the comparison that separates teaching from postcode.
| School | Suburb | Type | Students | ICSEA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ltyentye Apurte Catholic School | Santa Teresa (Ltyenty Apurte) | Catholic k–12 / combined · T-9 | 111 | 622 |
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