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Ben Venue Public School

Armidale, NSW, 2350

509 students enrolled

School details

Address: Erskine St, Armidale, NSW, 2350
Phone: 6772 4263
Website: Visit website
Email: benvenue-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au
School type: Primary
ICSEA: 1,008
School code: 1198
ACARA ID: 42419

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How this school compares

Benchmarks against nearby schools and similar peers (New South Wales government primary) using ICSEA, enrolments, staffing, and student background data.

ICSEA

61%

1,008 · Higher than 61% of peers

Enrolment

Top 16%

509 · Larger than 84% of peers

Students per FTE teacher

10%

17.9 · More than 90% of peers

ICSEA is meaningfully above the local suburb average.
A lower share of students have a language background other than English than typical peers (15% vs 27.5%).
More students per FTE teacher than peer average (17.9 vs 13.9).
Enrolment has declined 13.1% from 2008 to 2025 (586 → 509). Peer median change was -2.8% (schools with ≥50 students at start of their span).
Gender split is about 53% male / 47% female.

Enrolment trend

586 (2008) → 509 (2025) · -13.1%

Peer median change: -2.8%

ICSEA

Higher than 61% of peers

This school: 1,008
Armidale schoolsavg · 15 schools: 97137 above average
Postcode 2350avg · 16 schools: 96939 above average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,601 schools: 98820 above average

Enrolment

Larger than 84% of peers · 2025

This school: 509
Armidale schoolsavg · 15 schools: 289221 above average
Postcode 2350avg · 16 schools: 271238 above average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,601 schools: 282228 above average

Students per FTE teacher

More than 90% of peers · 2025

This school: 17.9
Armidale schoolsavg · 15 schools: 10.77.2 above average
Postcode 2350avg · 16 schools: 10.27.7 above average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,601 schools: 13.94 above average

Indigenous enrolments

2025

This school: 16%
Armidale schoolsavg · 15 schools: 22.5%6.5 pts below average
Postcode 2350avg · 16 schools: 21.1%5.1 pts below average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,601 schools: 14%2 pts above average

LBOTE (language background other than English)

2025

This school: 15%
Armidale schoolsavg · 15 schools: 14.5%about average
Postcode 2350avg · 16 schools: 15.1%about average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,601 schools: 27.5%12.5 pts below average

Students in top SEA quarter

Higher than 71% of peers · 2025

This school: 21%
Armidale schoolsavg · 15 schools: 18.1%2.9 pts above average
Postcode 2350avg · 15 schools: 18.1%2.9 pts above average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,592 schools: 17.4%3.6 pts above average

Students in bottom SEA quarter

Fewer than 63% of peers · 2025

This school: 25%
Armidale schoolsavg · 15 schools: 32.7%7.7 pts below average
Postcode 2350avg · 15 schools: 32.7%7.7 pts below average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,592 schools: 36%11 pts below average

Teaching staff

2025

This school: 30
Armidale schoolsavg · 15 schools: 291 above average
Postcode 2350avg · 16 schools: 273 above average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,601 schools: 2010 above average

FTE teaching staff

2025

This school: 28
Armidale schoolsavg · 15 schools: 272 above average
Postcode 2350avg · 16 schools: 253 above average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,601 schools: 1910 above average

FOEI (NSW)

Fewer than 67% of peers · 0

This school: 74
Armidale schoolsavg · 7 schools: 11339 below average
Postcode 2350avg · 8 schools: 11642 below average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,595 schools: 9521 below average

Peer group = same state, sector, and education level. ICSEA describes socio-educational advantage of the school community, not school quality. Indigenous and LBOTE shares are context only (shown in the detail comparisons below, not as ranking tiles). Each metric shows this school once, then peer-group averages on the same scale.

NAPLAN & official outcomes

NAPLAN results, attendance, and finance for Ben Venue Public School are published on the official My School website. SchoolGuide.au links there rather than republishing that data.

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Enrolment history

School profile data

Program and context details. Student and staffing benchmarks are in How this school compares above.

Remoteness (2026): Inner Regional
Aecg Region: North Western 2
Age Id: 49374
Remoteness (ASGS): Inner Regional Australia
Assets Unit: North Western NSW
Campus type (2025): School Single Entity
Commonwealth Electoral Division (2026): New England
Date Extracted: 2026-09-04
Date First Teacher: 1900-04-01
Distance education: N
Facs District: Hunter New England & Central Coast
Fax: 6771 2037
Federal Electorate: New England
Federal Electorate 2016 2024: New England
Geolocation (2025): Inner Regional
Governing Body (2025): NSW Department of Education
Governing Body Url (2025): https://education.nsw.gov.au/
Icsea Value: 1008.0
Intensive English centre: N
Late Opening School: N
Lga Name (2026): Armidale
Local Health District: Hunter New England
Operational Directorate: Rural North
Operational Directorate Office: Armidale
Operational Directorate Office Address: Suites 3 & 5, North Power Building, 175 Rusden Street
Operational Directorate Office Phone: 131 536
Opportunity class: N
Preschool: N
Principal Network: Armidale
Rolled Reporting (2025): Individual Reporting
Sa2 Name (2026): Armidale
Sa3 Name (2026): Armidale
Sa4: New England and North West
Sa4 Name (2026): New England and North West
School Gender: Coed
Specialty: Comprehensive
Subtype: Kindergarten to Year 6
School Url (2025): https://benvenue-p.schools.nsw.gov.au
Selective school: Not Selective
Special school (2026): 0
State Electoral Division (2026): Northern Tablelands
State Electorate: Northern Tablelands
State Electorate 2015 2022: Northern Tablelands
Year range (2025): K-6