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Illaroo Road Public School

North Nowra, NSW, 2541

451 students enrolled

School details

Address: 103 Illaroo Road, NORTH NOWRA, NSW, 2541
Phone: 4421 0422
Website: Visit website
Email: illaroo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au
School type: Primary
ICSEA: 992
School code: 4246
ACARA ID: 42865

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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

55%

992 · Higher than 55% of peers

Enrolment

Top 21%

451 · Larger than 79% of peers

Students per FTE teacher

29%

16.3 · More than 71% 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 (13% vs 27.5%).
More students per FTE teacher than peer average (16.3 vs 13.9).
Enrolment has declined 16.8% from 2008 to 2025 (542 → 451). Peer median change was -2.8% (schools with ≥50 students at start of their span).
Gender split is about 52% male / 48% female.

Enrolment trend

542 (2008) → 451 (2025) · -16.8%

Peer median change: -2.8%

ICSEA

Higher than 55% of peers

This school: 992
North Nowra schoolsavg · 2 schools: 879114 above average
Postcode 2541avg · 15 schools: 93755 above average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,601 schools: 9884 above average

Enrolment

Larger than 79% of peers · 2025

This school: 451
North Nowra schoolsavg · 2 schools: 145306 above average
Postcode 2541avg · 15 schools: 47524 below average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,601 schools: 282169 above average

Students per FTE teacher

More than 71% of peers · 2025

This school: 16.3
North Nowra schoolsavg · 2 schools: 9.37 above average
Postcode 2541avg · 15 schools: 10.85.5 above average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,601 schools: 13.92.4 above average

Indigenous enrolments

2025

This school: 18%
North Nowra schoolsavg · 2 schools: 40%22 pts below average
Postcode 2541avg · 15 schools: 26.1%8.1 pts below average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,601 schools: 14%4 pts above average

LBOTE (language background other than English)

2025

This school: 13%
North Nowra schoolsavg · 2 schools: 6%7 pts above average
Postcode 2541avg · 15 schools: 6.5%6.5 pts above average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,601 schools: 27.5%14.5 pts below average

Students in top SEA quarter

Higher than 60% of peers · 2025

This school: 14%
North Nowra schoolsavg · 2 schools: 3.5%10.5 pts above average
Postcode 2541avg · 15 schools: 8.9%5.1 pts above average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,592 schools: 17.4%3.4 pts below average

Students in bottom SEA quarter

Fewer than 53% of peers · 2025

This school: 32%
North Nowra schoolsavg · 2 schools: 61%29 pts below average
Postcode 2541avg · 15 schools: 45.1%13.1 pts below average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,592 schools: 36%4 pts below average

Teaching staff

2025

This school: 35
North Nowra schoolsavg · 2 schools: 1422 above average
Postcode 2541avg · 15 schools: 449 below average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,601 schools: 2015 above average

FTE teaching staff

2025

This school: 28
North Nowra schoolsavg · 2 schools: 1513 above average
Postcode 2541avg · 15 schools: 4114 below average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,601 schools: 199 above average

FOEI (NSW)

Fewer than 59% of peers · 0

This school: 87
North Nowra schoolsavg · 2 schools: 15972 below average
Postcode 2541avg · 9 schools: 13952 below average
New South Wales government primaryavg · 1,595 schools: 958 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 Illaroo Road 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: Upper South Coast
Age Id: 50169
Remoteness (ASGS): Inner Regional Australia
Assets Unit: Southern NSW
Campus type (2025): School Single Entity
Commonwealth Electoral Division (2026): Gilmore
Date Extracted: 2026-09-04
Date First Teacher: 1969-01-01
Distance education: N
Facs District: Illawarra Shoalhaven & Southern NSW
Fax: 4423 2728
Federal Electorate: Gilmore
Federal Electorate 2016 2024: Gilmore
Geolocation (2025): Inner Regional
Governing Body (2025): NSW Department of Education
Governing Body Url (2025): https://education.nsw.gov.au/
Icsea Value: 992.0
Intensive English centre: N
Late Opening School: N
Lga Name (2026): Shoalhaven
Local Health District: Illawarra Shoalhaven
Operational Directorate: Regional South and Connected Communities
Operational Directorate Office: Warilla
Operational Directorate Office Address: Warilla Education Office, 30 Oldfield Street
Operational Directorate Office Phone: 131 536
Opportunity class: Y
Preschool: N
Principal Network: Shoalhaven
Rolled Reporting (2025): Individual Reporting
Sa2 Name (2026): North Nowra - Bomaderry
Sa3 Name (2026): Shoalhaven
Sa4: Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven
Sa4 Name (2026): Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven
School Gender: Coed
Specialty: Comprehensive
Subtype: Kindergarten to Year 6
School Url (2025): https://illaroo-p.schools.nsw.gov.au
Selective school: Not Selective
Special school (2026): 0
State Electoral Division (2026): Kiama
State Electorate: Kiama
State Electorate 2015 2022: Kiama
Year range (2025): K-6