GovernmentPrimary

Arnolds Creek Primary School

Harkness, VIC, 3337

724 students enrolled

School details

Address: 59 Claret Ash Boulevard, Harkness, VIC, 3337
Phone: 03 9732 8300
Website: Visit website
School type: Primary
ICSEA: 999
School code: 5557
ACARA ID: 51481

Location

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How this school compares

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

ICSEA

41%

999 · Higher than 41% of peers

Enrolment

Top 6%

724 · Larger than 94% of peers

Students per FTE teacher

23%

14.5 · More than 77% of peers

A higher share of students have a language background other than English than typical peers (50% vs 27.3%).
More students per FTE teacher than peer average (14.5 vs 12.3).
Enrolment has grown 325.9% from 2015 to 2025 (170 → 724). Peer median change was +5.1% (schools with ≥50 students at start of their span).
Gender split is about 50% male / 50% female.

Enrolment trend

170 (2015) → 724 (2025) · +325.9%

Peer median change: +5.1%

ICSEA

This school: 999 · higher than 41% of peers

Enrolment history

School profile data

Program and context details. Student and staffing benchmarks are in How this school compares above.

Remoteness (2026): Major Cities
Campus type (2025): School Single Entity
Commonwealth Electoral Division (2026): Hawke
Geolocation (2025): Major Cities
Governing Body (2025): Department of Education Victoria
Governing Body Url (2025): https://www.vic.gov.au/education
Lga Name (2026): Melton
Rolled Reporting (2025): Individual Reporting
Sa2 Name (2026): Melton West
Sa3 Name (2026): Melton - Bacchus Marsh
Sa4 Name (2026): Melbourne - West

Nearby schools

St Francis Catholic College

Catholic1.4 km away

Wedge Park Primary School

Government1.4 km away

St Catherine of Siena School

Catholic1.5 km away

Melton West Primary School

Government2.5 km away

vs Postcode 3337(14 schools)

31 above average

This school: 999
Average: 968

vs Victoria government primary(1,145 schools)

25 below average

This school: 999
Average: 1,024

Enrolment

This school: 724 (2025) · larger than 94% of peers

vs Postcode 3337(14 schools)

92 above average

This school: 724
Average: 632

vs Victoria government primary(1,145 schools)

413 above average

This school: 724
Average: 311

Students per FTE teacher

This school: 14.5 (2025) · more than 77% of peers

vs Postcode 3337(14 schools)

2.8 above average

This school: 14.5
Average: 11.7

vs Victoria government primary(1,141 schools)

2.2 above average

This school: 14.5
Average: 12.3

Indigenous enrolments

This school: 3% (2025)

vs Postcode 3337(14 schools)

1.2 pts below average

This school: 3%
Average: 4.2%

vs Victoria government primary(1,144 schools)

1.2 pts below average

This school: 3%
Average: 4.2%

LBOTE (language background other than English)

This school: 50% (2025)

vs Postcode 3337(14 schools)

12.5 pts above average

This school: 50%
Average: 37.5%

vs Victoria government primary(1,144 schools)

22.7 pts above average

This school: 50%
Average: 27.3%

Students in top SEA quarter

This school: 9% (2025) · higher than 37% of peers

vs Postcode 3337(14 schools)

3.5 pts above average

This school: 9%
Average: 5.5%

vs Victoria government primary(1,139 schools)

12.2 pts below average

This school: 9%
Average: 21.2%

Students in bottom SEA quarter

This school: 34% (2025) · more than 60% of peers

vs Postcode 3337(14 schools)

12.7 pts below average

This school: 34%
Average: 46.7%

vs Victoria government primary(1,139 schools)

4.1 pts above average

This school: 34%
Average: 29.9%

Teaching staff

This school: 53 (2025)

vs Postcode 3337(14 schools)

7 below average

This school: 53
Average: 60

vs Victoria government primary(1,141 schools)

26 above average

This school: 53
Average: 27

FTE teaching staff

This school: 50 (2025)

vs Postcode 3337(14 schools)

5 below average

This school: 50
Average: 55

vs Victoria government primary(1,141 schools)

27 above average

This school: 50
Average: 23

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 comparison shows this school and the group average as two bars on one shared scale.

School Url (2025)

http://arnoldscreekps.vic.edu.au/

Special school (2026)

0

State Electoral Division (2026)

Melton (Western Victoria)

Vic Area

Brimbank Melton

Vic Region

SOUTH-WESTERN VICTORIA

Year range (2025)

Prep-6

Enrolments by grade

Offers: one year before year 1, year 1, year 2, year 3, year 4, year 5, year 6

Enrolments · one year before year 1: 88
Enrolments · year 1: 105
Enrolments · year 2: 115
Enrolments · year 3: 118
Enrolments · year 4: 92
Enrolments · year 5: 109
Enrolments · year 6: 97