St Mary's Primary School (Ipswich)
Mary Street, Ipswich QLD 4305
St Mary's Primary School (Ipswich) is a Catholic primary school in Ipswich, QLD from Prep to Year 6 with about 556 students. Its ICSEA is 1,041, where the national average is 1000.
Annual report (2025) ↗ on the publisher's site. About this link
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: a Catholic primary school in Woodend, Ipswich, linked to St Mary's Parish, which describes a warm and vibrant school community. It offers sacramental programs, integrated religious education, literacy and mathematics, leadership development and First Nations learning perspectives, plus co-curricular activities and outside school hours care. Students can worship in the heritage-listed Church of St Mary.
Often praised
- Warm school community
- Heritage church setting
- Leadership development
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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 St Mary's Primary School (Ipswich) on My School · Why some data is missing
Location and nearby schools
Straight-line distances. List every school within 5 to 50 km.
| School | Suburb | Type | Distance | ICSEA | Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ipswich Grammar School (Ipswich) | Ipswich | Independent k–12 / combined | 0.6 km | 1,114 | 1,336 |
| Blair State School | Sadliers Crossing | Public primary | 0.7 km | 952 | 320 |
| Ipswich North State School | North Ipswich | Public primary | 1.2 km | 904 | 206 |
| Ipswich West State School | West Ipswich | Public primary | 1.3 km | 947 | 210 |
| Ipswich Girls' Grammar School (East Ipswich) | East Ipswich | Independent k–12 / combined | 1.7 km | 1,122 | 1,047 |
| Ipswich Adventist School (Brassall) | Brassall | Independent primary | 1.7 km | 1,026 | 108 |
| Ipswich Central State School | Ipswich | Public primary | 1.9 km | 980 | 529 |
| St Joseph's School (North Ipswich) | North Ipswich | Catholic primary | 2.1 km | 1,029 | 390 |
Schools with a similar ICSEA in QLD
Same sector and type, ICSEA within 25 points. This is the comparison that separates teaching from postcode.
| School | Suburb | Type | Students | ICSEA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marian Catholic School (Currajong) | Currajong | Catholic primary · P-6 | 374 | 1,042 |
| Mary Immaculate Primary School (Annerley) | Annerley | Catholic primary · P-6 | 67 | 1,040 |
| St Patrick's Primary School (Gympie) | Gympie | Catholic primary · P-6 | 346 | 1,039 |
| St Peter's Catholic Primary School (Rockhampton) | Rockhampton | Catholic primary · P-6 | 357 | 1,039 |
| St Rita's Primary School (Victoria Point) | Victoria Point | Catholic primary · P-6 | 388 | 1,039 |
| Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School (Springsure) | Springsure | Catholic primary · P-6 | 23 | 1,038 |
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.