CatholicPrimary

St Mary's School

Dandenong, VIC, 3175

154 students enrolled

School details

Address: 20-24 New Street, DANDENONG, VIC, 3175
Phone: 03 9791 7650
Website: Visit website
School type: Primary
ICSEA: 993
School code: 935
ACARA ID: 45766

Location

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How this school compares

Benchmarks against nearby schools and similar peers (Victoria catholic primary) using ICSEA, enrolments, staffing, and student background data.

ICSEA

Bottom 9%

993 · Lower than 91% of peers

Enrolment

28%

154 · Smaller than 72% of peers

Students per FTE teacher

83%

10.4 · Fewer than 83% of peers

ICSEA ranks in the bottom quartile among Victoria catholic primary schools.
ICSEA is meaningfully above the local suburb average.
A higher share of students have a language background other than English than typical peers (75% vs 28.3%).
Fewer students per FTE teacher than peer average (10.4 vs 12.7).
Enrolment has declined 45.2% from 2008 to 2025 (281 → 154). Peer median change was +2.7% (schools with ≥50 students at start of their span).

Enrolment trend

281 (2008) → 154 (2025) · -45.2%

Peer median change: +2.7%

ICSEA

Lower than 91% of peers

This school: 993
Dandenong schoolsavg · 8 schools: 94152 above average
Postcode 3175avg · 14 schools: 97716 above average
Victoria catholic primaryavg · 389 schools: 1,05966 below average

Enrolment

Smaller than 72% of peers · 2025

This school: 154
Dandenong schoolsavg · 8 schools: 603449 below average
Postcode 3175avg · 14 schools: 529375 below average
Victoria catholic primaryavg · 389 schools: 278124 below average

Students per FTE teacher

Fewer than 83% of peers · 2025

This school: 10.4
Dandenong schoolsavg · 8 schools: 11.61.2 below average
Postcode 3175avg · 14 schools: 11.41 below average
Victoria catholic primaryavg · 389 schools: 12.72.3 below average

Indigenous enrolments

2025

This school: 0%
Dandenong schoolsavg · 8 schools: 1.6%none reported
Postcode 3175avg · 14 schools: 1.3%none reported
Victoria catholic primaryavg · 389 schools: 1.9%none reported

LBOTE (language background other than English)

2025

This school: 75%
Dandenong schoolsavg · 8 schools: 77.4%2.4 pts below average
Postcode 3175avg · 14 schools: 69.9%5.1 pts above average
Victoria catholic primaryavg · 388 schools: 28.3%46.7 pts above average

Students in top SEA quarter

Higher than 22% of peers · 2025

This school: 11%
Dandenong schoolsavg · 8 schools: 6%5 pts above average
Postcode 3175avg · 14 schools: 11.6%about average
Victoria catholic primaryavg · 388 schools: 25.6%14.6 pts below average

Students in bottom SEA quarter

More than 94% of peers · 2025

This school: 43%
Dandenong schoolsavg · 8 schools: 56.1%13.1 pts below average
Postcode 3175avg · 14 schools: 44%1 pts below average
Victoria catholic primaryavg · 388 schools: 18.1%24.9 pts above average

Teaching staff

2025

This school: 19
Dandenong schoolsavg · 8 schools: 6142 below average
Postcode 3175avg · 14 schools: 5536 below average
Victoria catholic primaryavg · 389 schools: 256 below average

FTE teaching staff

2025

This school: 15
Dandenong schoolsavg · 8 schools: 5540 below average
Postcode 3175avg · 14 schools: 4934 below average
Victoria catholic primaryavg · 389 schools: 216 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 St Mary's School are published on the official My School website. SchoolGuide.au links there rather than republishing that data.

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