Penong Primary School
Eyre Highway, Penong SA 5690
Penong Primary School is a government primary school in Penong, SA from Reception to Year 7 with about 36 students. Its ICSEA is 870, 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
Drawn from public online sources: Penong Primary School is a small government school on the Eyre Highway in the far west of South Australia's Eyre Peninsula, serving Reception to Year 6 with about 36 students and a team of four teaching staff. The school community includes a significant proportion of Aboriginal students, around 42 percent according to one source.
Often praised
- Small class sizes
- Inclusive Aboriginal student community
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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 Penong 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hackham West School | Hackham West | Public primary · R-6 | 110 | 867 |
| Port Pirie West Primary School | Port Pirie | Public primary · R-6 | 201 | 873 |
| Nangwarry Primary School | Nangwarry | Public primary · R-7 | 18 | 874 |
| Elizabeth East Primary School | Elizabeth East | Public primary · R-6 | 200 | 875 |
| Wallaroo Primary School | Wallaroo | Public primary · R-6 | 65 | 865 |
| Elizabeth Park Primary School | Elizabeth Park | Public primary · R-6 | 312 | 862 |
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.