Wentworth Falls Public School

Falls Rd, Wentworth Falls NSW 2782

PublicPrimaryYears K-6Opportunity class

Wentworth Falls Public School is a government primary school in Wentworth Falls, NSW from Kindergarten to Year 6 with about 370 students. It hosts an opportunity class for Years 5 and 6. Its ICSEA is 1,074, where the national average is 1000.

370students

1,074ICSEA · higher than 80% of NSW primary schools

19%language background other than English

6%Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander

20teaching staff (FTE)

Teaching staff: ACARA School Profile 2025. Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). Terms

Attendance and enrolment

89.5%attendance rate, 2024 · -2.0 pts over 3 years

-7%enrolment change over 5 years

48FOEI (Family Occupation and Education Index; higher means more disadvantage, NSW average about 100)

Enrolments by year, 2016–2025. Latest 370.

About this school, from public sources

Drawn from public online sources, including the school's own website and NSW education reporting, Wentworth Falls Public School is a government K-6 school in the Blue Mountains, established in 1887. It describes a family atmosphere built around being safe, respectful learners. Offerings include gifted and high-potential programs, wellbeing initiatives, outdoor learning, and extra-curricular choir, dance, strings, recorder, debating and chess. An active P&C supports the school, and it belongs to the Upper Blue Mountains Learning Community with Katoomba High School.

Often praised

Broad extra-curricular arts and music
Active P&C and community
Gifted and high-potential 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 Wentworth Falls Public School on My School · Why some data is missing

Opportunity class

Wentworth Falls Public School hosts an opportunity class for Years 5 and 6. Placement is by the opportunity class placement test sat in Year 4.

All selective and OC schools

Location and nearby schools

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

School	Suburb	Type	Distance	ICSEA	Students
Blue Mountains Grammar School	Wentworth Falls	Independent k–12 / combined	0.7 km	1,140	512
Kindlehill Steiner School	Wentworth Falls	Independent k–12 / combined	1.1 km	1,077	114
Leura Public School	Leura	Public primary	3.4 km	1,055	199
Lawson Public School	Lawson	Public primary	5.1 km	1,000	196
Katoomba Public School	Katoomba	Public primary	5.5 km	1,035	210
Katoomba North Public School	Katoomba	Public primary	5.6 km	986	128
St Canice's Primary School	Katoomba	Catholic primary	5.8 km	1,020	67
Our Lady of The Nativity Primary School	Lawson	Catholic primary	6.2 km	1,076	115

Schools with a similar ICSEA in NSW

Same sector and type, ICSEA within 25 points. This is the comparison that separates teaching from postcode.

School	Suburb	Type	Students	ICSEA
Kangaloon Public School	Kangaloon	Public primary · K-6	20	1,074
Brookvale Public SchoolOC	Brookvale	Public primary · K-6	306	1,075
Charlestown South Public School	Charlestown	Public primary · K-6	235	1,075
Eltham Public School	Eltham	Public primary · K-6	59	1,075
Gymea North Public School	Gymea	Public primary · K-6	362	1,075
Kangaroo Valley Public School	Kangaroo Valley	Public primary · K-6	83	1,073

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.