GovernmentSecondary

Callaghan College Wallsend Campus

Wallsend, NSW, 2287

890 students enrolled

School details

Address: Macquarie St, Wallsend, NSW, 2287
Phone: 4951 1811
Website: Visit website
Email: wallsend-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au
School type: Secondary
ICSEA: 952
School code: 8259
ACARA ID: 42101

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

Top 31%

890 · Larger than 69% of peers

Students per FTE teacher

45%

11.7 · More than 55% 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 (19% vs 34.3%).
Enrolment has declined 6.4% from 2008 to 2025 (951 → 890). Peer median change was -4.5% (schools with ≥50 students at start of their span).
Gender split is about 51% male / 49% female.

Enrolment trend

951 (2008) → 890 (2025) · -6.4%

Peer median change: -4.5%

ICSEA

Higher than 42% of peers

This school: 952
Wallsend schoolsavg · 6 schools: 1,02371 below average
Postcode 2287avg · 10 schools: 1,02674 below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 98230 below average

Enrolment

Larger than 69% of peers · 2025

This school: 890
Wallsend schoolsavg · 6 schools: 451440 above average
Postcode 2287avg · 10 schools: 467423 above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 748142 above average

Students per FTE teacher

More than 55% of peers · 2025

This school: 11.7
Wallsend schoolsavg · 6 schools: 15.74 below average
Postcode 2287avg · 10 schools: 15.63.9 below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 11.20.5 above average

Indigenous enrolments

2025

This school: 15%
Wallsend schoolsavg · 6 schools: 11.8%3.2 pts above average
Postcode 2287avg · 10 schools: 11.8%3.2 pts above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 12.9%2.1 pts above average

LBOTE (language background other than English)

2025

This school: 19%
Wallsend schoolsavg · 6 schools: 27.3%8.3 pts below average
Postcode 2287avg · 10 schools: 25.7%6.7 pts below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 34.3%15.3 pts below average

Students in top SEA quarter

Higher than 53% of peers · 2025

This school: 8%
Wallsend schoolsavg · 6 schools: 25.2%17.2 pts below average
Postcode 2287avg · 10 schools: 24.8%16.8 pts below average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 16%8 pts below average

Students in bottom SEA quarter

More than 56% of peers · 2025

This school: 46%
Wallsend schoolsavg · 6 schools: 27%19 pts above average
Postcode 2287avg · 10 schools: 25.3%20.7 pts above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 39.2%6.8 pts above average

Teaching staff

2025

This school: 79
Wallsend schoolsavg · 6 schools: 3346 above average
Postcode 2287avg · 10 schools: 3445 above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 6317 above average

FTE teaching staff

2025

This school: 76
Wallsend schoolsavg · 6 schools: 2947 above average
Postcode 2287avg · 10 schools: 3145 above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 397 schools: 6412 above average

FOEI (NSW)

More than 65% of peers · 0

This school: 124
Wallsend schoolsavg · 4 schools: 9133 above average
Postcode 2287avg · 7 schools: 8539 above average
New South Wales government secondaryavg · 396 schools: 10222 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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