St Mary's School
2 Mansfield Street, Thornbury VIC 3071
St Mary's School is a Catholic primary school in Thornbury, VIC from Prep to Year 6 with about 113 students. Its ICSEA is 1,089, 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, 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: St Mary's Primary School on Mansfield Street, Thornbury, was established in 1920 and teaches Prep to Year 6 to about 113 students across six classes. Specialist teachers cover Italian, Physical Education, Visual Art and Digital Technologies. With roughly eight students per teacher, it offers a small school environment. The school welcomes families to book tours through its office.
Often praised
- Italian and digital technologies
- Small class sizes
- Family school tours
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thornbury Primary School | Thornbury | Public primary | 0.5 km | 1,093 | 300 |
| Wales Street Primary School | Thornbury | Public primary | 0.8 km | 1,140 | 606 |
| Preston South Primary School | Preston | Public primary | 1.1 km | 1,127 | 421 |
| Penders Grove Primary School | Thornbury | Public primary | 1.1 km | 1,021 | 143 |
| St John's College Preston | Preston | Independent k–12 / combined | 1.2 km | 1,066 | 345 |
| Sacred Heart School | Preston | Catholic primary | 1.3 km | 1,090 | 117 |
| Holy Spirit School | Thornbury East | Catholic primary | 1.4 km | 1,107 | 129 |
| Bell Primary School | Preston | Public primary | 1.4 km | 1,165 | 467 |
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 Thomas More's School | Belgrave | Catholic primary · P-6 | 101 | 1,089 |
| Emmaus Catholic Primary School | Mount Clear | Catholic primary · P-6 | 362 | 1,088 |
| Sacred Heart School | Preston | Catholic primary · P-6 | 117 | 1,090 |
| Ss Peter & Paul's School | Doncaster East | Catholic primary · P-6 | 60 | 1,088 |
| St Columba's School | Ballarat North | Catholic primary · P-6 | 334 | 1,090 |
| St Brigid's School | Mordialloc | Catholic primary · P-6 | 169 | 1,091 |
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.