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Magpie Primary School

Magpie, VIC, 3352

103 students enrolled

School details

Address: 61 Docwra Street, Magpie, VIC, 3352
Phone: 03 5335 8851
Website: Visit website
School type: Primary
ICSEA: 923
School code: 2271
ACARA ID: 44450

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

Bottom 7%

923 · Lower than 93% of peers

Enrolment

25%

103 · Smaller than 75% of peers

Students per FTE teacher

76%

11 · Fewer than 76% of peers

ICSEA ranks in the bottom quartile among Victoria government primary schools.
A lower share of students have a language background other than English than typical peers (2% vs 27.3%).
Indigenous enrolment share is higher than peers (20% vs average 4.2%).
Enrolment has grown 56.1% from 2008 to 2025 (66 → 103). Peer median change was +5.1% (schools with ≥50 students at start of their span).
Gender split is about 56% male / 44% female.

Enrolment trend

66 (2008) → 103 (2025) · +56.1%

Peer median change: +5.1%

Enrolment history

School profile data

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

Remoteness (2026): Inner Regional
Campus type (2025): School Single Entity
Commonwealth Electoral Division (2026): Ballarat
Geolocation (2025): Inner Regional
Governing Body (2025): Department of Education Victoria
Governing Body Url (2025): https://www.vic.gov.au/education
Lga Name (2026): Ballarat
Rolled Reporting (2025): Individual Reporting
Sa2 Name (2026): Buninyong
Sa3 Name (2026): Ballarat
Sa4 Name (2026): Ballarat

Nearby schools

St James' School

Catholic1.4 km away

Sebastopol Primary School

Government2.1 km away

Damascus College

Catholic2.4 km away

Emmaus Catholic Primary School

Catholic2.5 km away

ICSEA

This school: 923 · lower than 93% of peers

vs Postcode 3352(11 schools)

76 below average

This school: 923
Average: 999

vs Victoria government primary(1,145 schools)

101 below average

This school: 923
Average: 1,024

Enrolment

This school: 103 (2025) · smaller than 75% of peers

vs Postcode 3352(11 schools)

32 above average

This school: 103
Average: 71

vs Victoria government primary(1,145 schools)

208 below average

This school: 103
Average: 311

Students per FTE teacher

This school: 11 (2025) · fewer than 76% of peers

vs Postcode 3352(11 schools)

2.3 above average

This school: 11
Average: 8.7

vs Victoria government primary(1,141 schools)

1.3 below average

This school: 11
Average: 12.3

Indigenous enrolments

This school: 20% (2025)

vs Postcode 3352(11 schools)

11.4 pts above average

This school: 20%
Average: 8.6%

vs Victoria government primary(1,144 schools)

15.8 pts above average

This school: 20%
Average: 4.2%

LBOTE (language background other than English)

This school: 2% (2025)

vs Postcode 3352(11 schools)

3.8 pts below average

This school: 2%
Average: 5.8%

vs Victoria government primary(1,144 schools)

25.3 pts below average

This school: 2%
Average: 27.3%

Students in top SEA quarter

This school: 5% (2025) · higher than 21% of peers

vs Postcode 3352(11 schools)

9.5 pts below average

This school: 5%
Average: 14.5%

vs Victoria government primary(1,139 schools)

16.2 pts below average

This school: 5%
Average: 21.2%

Students in bottom SEA quarter

This school: 57% (2025) · more than 90% of peers

vs Postcode 3352(11 schools)

19.3 pts above average

This school: 57%
Average: 37.7%

vs Victoria government primary(1,139 schools)

27.1 pts above average

This school: 57%
Average: 29.9%

Teaching staff

This school: 13 (2025)

vs Postcode 3352(11 schools)

5 above average

This school: 13
Average: 9

vs Victoria government primary(1,141 schools)

14 below average

This school: 13
Average: 27

FTE teaching staff

This school: 9 (2025)

vs Postcode 3352(11 schools)

3 above average

This school: 9
Average: 7

vs Victoria government primary(1,141 schools)

13 below average

This school: 9
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://www.magpieps.vic.edu.au

Special school (2026)

0

State Electoral Division (2026)

Eureka (Western Victoria)

Vic Area

Central Highlands

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: 15
Enrolments · year 1: 13
Enrolments · year 2: 13
Enrolments · year 3: 16
Enrolments · year 4: 17
Enrolments · year 5: 17
Enrolments · year 6: 12