Rawa Community School
Lake Dora (punmu Community), Great Sandy Desert WA 6753
Rawa Community School is an independent combined primary and secondary school in Great Sandy Desert, WA from Kindergarten to Year 12 with about 56 students across all campuses. Its ICSEA is 707, where the national average is 1000.
ICSEA, Language background, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander share, Teaching staff, School website: ACARA School Profile 2025. Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). Enrolments and staff cover all campuses of this school. Terms
About this school, from public sources
Drawn from public online sources: Rawa Community School is an Aboriginal independent community school founded in 1981, with campuses at Punmu and Kunawarritji on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert, among the most remote in Western Australia. It is co-educational and runs from pre-primary to Year 12. It teaches in two languages and two cultures, Martu Wangka and English, and has worked with partner organisations.
Often praised
- Bilingual two-culture teaching
- Remote desert community campuses
- Martu language taught
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NAPLAN
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Schools with a similar ICSEA in WA
Same sector and type, ICSEA within 25 points. This is the comparison that separates teaching from postcode.
| School | Suburb | Type | Students | ICSEA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Aboriginal Parent-Directed School | Coolgardie | Independent k–12 / combined · 1-12 | 81 | 684 |
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