GovernmentSecondary

Ballina Coast High School

Ballina, NSW, 2478

722 students enrolled

School details

Address: 57 Cherry Street, BALLINA, NSW, 2478
Phone: 02 6681 0100
Website: Visit website
Email: ballinacoast-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au
School type: Secondary
ICSEA: 952
School code: 8195
ACARA ID: 42383

Location

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How this school compares

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

ICSEA

42%

952 · Higher than 42% of peers

Enrolment

47%

722 · Smaller than 53% of peers

Students per FTE teacher

60%

10.6 · Fewer than 60% of peers

ICSEA is meaningfully below the local suburb average.
A lower share of students have a language background other than English than typical peers (8% vs 34.3%).
Indigenous enrolment share is higher than peers (19% vs average 12.9%).
Enrolment has grown 30.8% from 2008 to 2025 (552 → 722). Peer median change was -4.5% (schools with ≥50 students at start of their span).
Gender split is about 57% male / 43% female.

Enrolment trend

552 (2008) → 722 (2025) · +30.8%

Peer median change: -4.5%

ICSEA

Higher than 42% of peers

This school: 952
Ballina schoolsavg · 5 schools: 99947 below average
Postcode 2478avg · 12 schools: 1,01664 below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 98230 below average

Enrolment

Smaller than 53% of peers · 2025

This school: 722
Ballina schoolsavg · 5 schools: 378344 above average
Postcode 2478avg · 12 schools: 355367 above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 74927 below average

Students per FTE teacher

Fewer than 60% of peers · 2025

This school: 10.6
Ballina schoolsavg · 5 schools: 12.21.6 below average
Postcode 2478avg · 12 schools: 11.91.3 below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 11.20.6 below average

Indigenous enrolments

2025

This school: 19%
Ballina schoolsavg · 5 schools: 17.4%1.6 pts above average
Postcode 2478avg · 12 schools: 13.3%5.7 pts above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 12.9%6.1 pts above average

LBOTE (language background other than English)

2025

This school: 8%
Ballina schoolsavg · 5 schools: 15%7 pts below average
Postcode 2478avg · 12 schools: 12.8%4.8 pts below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 34.3%26.3 pts below average

Students in top SEA quarter

Higher than 55% of peers · 2025

This school: 9%
Ballina schoolsavg · 5 schools: 21.6%12.6 pts below average
Postcode 2478avg · 12 schools: 22.7%13.7 pts below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 16%7 pts below average

Students in bottom SEA quarter

Fewer than 51% of peers · 2025

This school: 43%
Ballina schoolsavg · 5 schools: 30%13 pts above average
Postcode 2478avg · 12 schools: 26.2%16.8 pts above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 39.3%3.7 pts above average

Teaching staff

2025

This school: 69
Ballina schoolsavg · 5 schools: 3435 above average
Postcode 2478avg · 12 schools: 3633 above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 637 above average

FTE teaching staff

2025

This school: 68
Ballina schoolsavg · 5 schools: 2939 above average
Postcode 2478avg · 12 schools: 3038 above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 644 above average

FOEI (NSW)

More than 51% of peers · 0

This school: 113
Postcode 2478avg · 6 schools: 9815 above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 396 schools: 10211 above 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

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