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The Rivers Secondary College, Kadina High Campus

Goonellabah, NSW, 2480

262 students enrolled

School details

Address: Kadina St, Goonellabah, NSW, 2480
Phone: 6624 3133
Website: Visit website
Email: kadina-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au
School type: Secondary
ICSEA: 884
School code: 8520
ACARA ID: 42398

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

11%

884 · Higher than 11% of peers

Enrolment

262 · Smaller than 91% of peers

Students per FTE teacher

97%

6.6 · Fewer than 97% of peers

ICSEA ranks in the bottom quartile among New South Wales government secondary schools.
ICSEA is meaningfully below the local suburb average.
A lower share of students have a language background other than English than typical peers (9% vs 34.3%).
Indigenous enrolment share is higher than peers (33% vs average 12.8%).
Fewer students per FTE teacher than peer average (6.6 vs 11.2).

Enrolment trend

522 (2008) → 262 (2025) · -49.8%

Peer median change: -4.5%

ICSEA

Higher than 11% of peers

This school: 884
Goonellabah schoolsavg · 3 schools: 96379 below average
Postcode 2480avg · 38 schools: 990106 below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 98298 below average

Enrolment

Smaller than 91% of peers · 2025

This school: 262
Goonellabah schoolsavg · 3 schools: 35290 below average
Postcode 2480avg · 38 schools: 18082 above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 750488 below average

Students per FTE teacher

Fewer than 97% of peers · 2025

This school: 6.6
Goonellabah schoolsavg · 3 schools: 12.55.9 below average
Postcode 2480avg · 38 schools: 11.44.8 below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 11.24.6 below average

Indigenous enrolments

2025

This school: 33%
Goonellabah schoolsavg · 3 schools: 19.7%13.3 pts above average
Postcode 2480avg · 38 schools: 14.2%18.8 pts above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 12.8%20.2 pts above average

LBOTE (language background other than English)

2025

This school: 9%
Goonellabah schoolsavg · 3 schools: 13.3%4.3 pts below average
Postcode 2480avg · 38 schools: 10.5%1.5 pts below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 34.3%25.3 pts below average

Students in top SEA quarter

Higher than 30% of peers · 2025

This school: 4%
Goonellabah schoolsavg · 3 schools: 11.7%7.7 pts below average
Postcode 2480avg · 38 schools: 14.7%10.7 pts below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 16%12 pts below average

Students in bottom SEA quarter

More than 79% of peers · 2025

This school: 58%
Goonellabah schoolsavg · 3 schools: 39%19 pts above average
Postcode 2480avg · 38 schools: 33.3%24.7 pts above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 39.2%18.8 pts above average

Teaching staff

2025

This school: 42
Goonellabah schoolsavg · 3 schools: 3111 above average
Postcode 2480avg · 38 schools: 1824 above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 6321 below average

FTE teaching staff

2025

This school: 40
Goonellabah schoolsavg · 3 schools: 2713 above average
Postcode 2480avg · 38 schools: 1625 above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 6424 below average

FOEI (NSW)

More than 85% of peers · 0

This school: 146
Postcode 2480avg · 28 schools: 10344 above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 396 schools: 10244 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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