CatholicCombined (K–12)

St Mary's College

Gunnedah, NSW, 2380

411 students enrolled

School details

Address: Gunnedah, NSW, 2380
Website: Visit website
School type: Secondary
ICSEA: 976
School code: Not available
ACARA ID: 43651

Location

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How this school compares

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

ICSEA

Bottom 6%

976 · Lower than 94% of peers

Enrolment

411 · Smaller than 92% of peers

Students per FTE teacher

88%

10.6 · Fewer than 88% of peers

ICSEA ranks in the bottom quartile among New South Wales catholic combined schools.
ICSEA is meaningfully above the local suburb average.
A lower share of students have a language background other than English than typical peers (3% vs 34.3%).
Indigenous enrolment share is higher than peers (17% vs average 5.2%).
Enrolment has grown 13.2% from 2008 to 2025 (363 → 411). Peer median change was +14.2% (schools with ≥50 students at start of their span).

Enrolment trend

363 (2008) → 411 (2025) · +13.2%

Peer median change: +14.2%

ICSEA

Lower than 94% of peers

This school: 976
Gunnedah schoolsavg · 6 schools: 89285 above average
Postcode 2380avg · 6 schools: 89285 above average
New South Wales catholic combinedavg · 124 schools: 1,04468 below average

Enrolment

Smaller than 92% of peers · 2025

This school: 411
Gunnedah schoolsavg · 6 schools: 296115 above average
Postcode 2380avg · 6 schools: 296115 above average
New South Wales catholic combinedavg · 124 schools: 885474 below average

Students per FTE teacher

Fewer than 88% of peers · 2025

This school: 10.6
Gunnedah schoolsavg · 6 schools: 11.20.6 below average
Postcode 2380avg · 6 schools: 11.20.6 below average
New South Wales catholic combinedavg · 124 schools: 12.41.8 below average

Indigenous enrolments

2025

This school: 17%
Gunnedah schoolsavg · 6 schools: 40.3%23.3 pts below average
Postcode 2380avg · 6 schools: 40.3%23.3 pts below average
New South Wales catholic combinedavg · 124 schools: 5.2%11.8 pts above average

LBOTE (language background other than English)

2025

This school: 3%
Gunnedah schoolsavg · 6 schools: 7.3%4.3 pts below average
Postcode 2380avg · 6 schools: 7.3%4.3 pts below average
New South Wales catholic combinedavg · 124 schools: 34.3%31.3 pts below average

Students in top SEA quarter

Higher than 17% of peers · 2025

This school: 10%
Gunnedah schoolsavg · 6 schools: 7.3%2.7 pts above average
Postcode 2380avg · 6 schools: 7.3%2.7 pts above average
New South Wales catholic combinedavg · 124 schools: 22.1%12.1 pts below average

Students in bottom SEA quarter

More than 94% of peers · 2025

This school: 34%
Gunnedah schoolsavg · 6 schools: 54%20 pts below average
Postcode 2380avg · 6 schools: 54%20 pts below average
New South Wales catholic combinedavg · 124 schools: 18.5%15.5 pts above average

Teaching staff

2025

This school: 44
Gunnedah schoolsavg · 6 schools: 2718 above average
Postcode 2380avg · 6 schools: 2718 above average
New South Wales catholic combinedavg · 124 schools: 7834 below average

FTE teaching staff

2025

This school: 39
Gunnedah schoolsavg · 6 schools: 2613 above average
Postcode 2380avg · 6 schools: 2613 above average
New South Wales catholic combinedavg · 124 schools: 7031 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

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