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Sacred Heart School

Beagle Bay Community, Via Broome WA 6725

CatholicK–12 / combinedYears K-10

Sacred Heart School is a Catholic combined primary and secondary school in Via Broome, WA from Kindergarten to Year 10 with about 78 students. Its ICSEA is 635, where the national average is 1000.

78students
635ICSEA · higher than 8% of WA private schools
97%language background other than English
98%Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
10teaching staff (FTE)

Sector, 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). Terms

About this school, from public sources

Drawn from public online sources: Sacred Heart School at Beagle Bay on the Dampier Peninsula is a Catholic co-educational school for Kindergarten to Year 10. It continues the first Catholic school in the Kimberley, founded by the Trappist Fathers in 1892. Staff include teachers and First Nations assistants. A capital program has added a secondary classroom, hall and other upgraded facilities.

Often praised

  • Historic Kimberley Catholic school
  • First Nations assistants on staff
  • New hall and classroom facilities

This note was generated from publicly available online sources (the school's website, official pages and online feedback) as at October 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: medium. 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 Sacred Heart School on My School · Why some data is missing

Location and nearby schools

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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.

SchoolSuburbTypeStudentsICSEA
Ngalangangpum SchoolKununurraCatholic k–12 / combined · K-1062632

About this data

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