GovernmentSecondary

Wollumbin High School

Murwillumbah, NSW, 2484

161 students enrolled

School details

Address: North Arm Rd, Murwillumbah, NSW, 2484
Phone: 6672 5121
Website: Visit website
Email: wollumbin-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au
School type: Secondary
ICSEA: 938
School code: 8596
ACARA ID: 42408

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

34%

938 · Higher than 34% of peers

Enrolment

161 · Smaller than 96% of peers

Students per FTE teacher

Top

3.8 · Fewest among 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%).
Fewer students per FTE teacher than peer average (3.8 vs 11.2).
Enrolment has declined 66.7% from 2008 to 2025 (483 → 161). Peer median change was -4.5% (schools with ≥50 students at start of their span).
Gender split is about 54% male / 46% female.

Enrolment trend

483 (2008) → 161 (2025) · -66.7%

Peer median change: -4.5%

ICSEA

Higher than 34% of peers

This school: 938
Murwillumbah schoolsavg · 8 schools: 1,01779 below average
Postcode 2484avg · 18 schools: 1,00163 below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 98244 below average

Enrolment

Smaller than 96% of peers · 2025

This school: 161
Murwillumbah schoolsavg · 8 schools: 322161 below average
Postcode 2484avg · 18 schools: 18120 below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 750589 below average

Students per FTE teacher

Fewest among peers · 2025

This school: 3.8
Murwillumbah schoolsavg · 8 schools: 10.66.8 below average
Postcode 2484avg · 18 schools: 11.57.7 below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 11.27.4 below average

Indigenous enrolments

2025

This school: 17%
Murwillumbah schoolsavg · 8 schools: 8.1%8.9 pts above average
Postcode 2484avg · 18 schools: 7.8%9.2 pts above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 12.9%4.1 pts above average

LBOTE (language background other than English)

2025

This school: 8%
Murwillumbah schoolsavg · 8 schools: 10.4%2.4 pts below average
Postcode 2484avg · 18 schools: 10.4%2.4 pts below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 34.3%26.3 pts below average

Students in top SEA quarter

Higher than 22% of peers · 2025

This school: 3%
Murwillumbah schoolsavg · 8 schools: 17.6%14.6 pts below average
Postcode 2484avg · 18 schools: 13.3%10.3 pts below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 16%13 pts below average

Students in bottom SEA quarter

More than 72% of peers · 2025

This school: 55%
Murwillumbah schoolsavg · 8 schools: 28.1%26.9 pts above average
Postcode 2484avg · 18 schools: 33.5%21.5 pts above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 39.2%15.8 pts above average

Teaching staff

2025

This school: 40
Murwillumbah schoolsavg · 8 schools: 328 above average
Postcode 2484avg · 18 schools: 1822 above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 6323 below average

FTE teaching staff

2025

This school: 42
Murwillumbah schoolsavg · 8 schools: 3012 above average
Postcode 2484avg · 18 schools: 1726 above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 6422 below average

FOEI (NSW)

More than 76% of peers · 0

This school: 136
Murwillumbah schoolsavg · 3 schools: 12214 above average
Postcode 2484avg · 10 schools: 11917 above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 396 schools: 10234 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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