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St Joseph's School

970 Coolibah Drive, Kununurra WA 6743

CatholicPrimaryYears K-6

St Joseph's School is a Catholic primary school in Kununurra, WA from Kindergarten to Year 6 with about 122 students. Its ICSEA is 788, where the national average is 1000.

122students
788ICSEA · higher than 3% of WA private schools
63%language background other than English
72%Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
9teaching 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: St Joseph's is a Catholic coeducational primary school in Kununurra in the East Kimberley, founded by the Sisters of St Joseph in 1967. It caters for around 200 Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students and serves the local parish. The school states a mission of excellence in education and pastoral care, wellbeing, strong values and inclusion of all cultures. It is also listed as a Kitchen Garden school.

Often praised

  • Inclusive of all cultures
  • Kitchen Garden program
  • Pastoral care

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: high. 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 St Joseph's School on My School · Why some data is missing

Location and nearby schools

Straight-line distances. List every school within 5 to 50 km.

SchoolSuburbTypeDistanceICSEAStudents
East Kimberley CollegeGifted class: Gifted classKununurraPublic k–12 / combined0.4 km8571,033

About this data

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