Tagai State College
District Office, 31 Hargrave Street, Thursday Island QLD 4875
Tagai State College is a government combined primary and secondary school in Thursday Island, QLD from Kindergarten to Year 12 with about 1,261 students across all campuses. Its ICSEA is 742, 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). Enrolments and staff cover all campuses of this school. Terms
About this school, from public sources
Based on public information from the school's own website and general online sources, Tagai State College is a large government K-12 college spanning Thursday Island and numerous Torres Strait Island communities, with its secondary campus based on Thursday Island. The college centres its curriculum and identity around Torres Strait Islander culture, drawing on the Tagai constellation story as an educational foundation, alongside junior, middle and senior schooling, vocational education, and excellence programs.
Often praised
- Strong Torres Strait Islander cultural identity
- Multi-campus reach across island communities
- Vocational education and excellence programs
This note was generated from publicly available online sources (the school's website, official pages and online feedback) as at September 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 Tagai State College on My School · Why some data is missing
Location and nearby schools
Straight-line distances. List every school within 5 to 50 km.
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.