St Mary's Primary School
11 Pearson Street, Sale VIC 3850
St Mary's Primary School is a Catholic primary school in Sale, VIC from Prep to Year 6 with about 180 students. Its ICSEA is 1,045, where the national average is 1000.
Annual report (2024) ↗ on the publisher's site. About this link
ICSEA, Enrolments, Language background, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander share, Year range, 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: a Catholic primary school (Prep-6) on Pearson Street, Sale, in Gippsland, with around 180 students and a student-to-teacher ratio of roughly 10 to one. A small share of students have Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander or other language backgrounds. The school publishes annual reports for its community, and listings note results modestly above national year-level averages.
Often praised
- Small class sizes
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 St Mary's 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.
| School | Suburb | Type | Distance | ICSEA | Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sale Primary School | Sale | Public primary | 1.0 km | 1,003 | 463 |
| Gippsland Grammar | Sale | Independent k–12 / combined | 1.9 km | 1,096 | 1,039 |
| Wurruk Primary School | Wurruk | Public primary | 2.0 km | 827 | 30 |
| St Thomas' School | Sale | Catholic primary | 2.2 km | 1,039 | 289 |
| Araluen Primary School | Sale | Public primary | 2.4 km | 946 | 89 |
| Guthridge Primary School | Sale | Public primary | 2.5 km | 973 | 274 |
| Longford Primary School | Longford | Public primary | 6.9 km | 1,019 | 166 |
| Cobains Primary School | Cobains | Public primary | 7.3 km | 939 | 53 |
Schools with a similar ICSEA in VIC
Same sector and type, ICSEA within 25 points. This is the comparison that separates teaching from postcode.
| School | Suburb | Type | Students | ICSEA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Elizabeth's School | Dandenong North | Catholic primary · P-6 | 244 | 1,045 |
| St Patrick's School | Wangaratta | Catholic primary · P-6 | 227 | 1,045 |
| Bethany Catholic Primary School | Werribee North | Catholic primary · P-6 | 568 | 1,044 |
| Sacred Heart Primary School | Yarrawonga | Catholic primary · P-6 | 443 | 1,046 |
| School of the Good Shepherd | Gladstone Park | Catholic primary · P-6 | 374 | 1,046 |
| St Paul's School | Monbulk | Catholic primary · P-6 | 115 | 1,046 |
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.