Rockhampton Downs School — Community Composition — Tablelands, NT

ICSEA Socio-Educational Advantage

ICSEA (Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage) measures the socio-educational profile of this school's community not the school itself.The national average is 1,000.It is calculated from parent's occupation, parent's education, geographic remoteness, and Indigenous enrolment proportion.The national average is 1,000.It is calculated from parent's occupation, parent's education, geographic remoteness, and Indigenous enrolment proportion.

ICSEA Score610

800 (most disadvantaged)Well below average1200 (most advantaged) (most favored)

SEIFA IRSD Decile

1/10

most disadvantaged areas nationally

SEIFA IRSD Score

871

Area-level index (ABS 2021)

ICSEA: ACARA (2025). SEIFA: ABS Census 2021.

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Rockhampton Downs School: XVAR0X serves a significantly more disadvantaged community than average: 96% of students come from the bottom socio-educational quarter nationally. Understanding this context is essential when interpreting any outcome data for this school.

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Top quarter Top quarter

25 pp below avg0%

25% en cada trimestre

Upper middle

25 pp below avg0%

25% en cada trimestre

Below middleBelow middleBelow middle

21 pp below avg4%

25% en cada trimestre

Bottom quarter

71 pp above avg96%

25% en cada trimestre

2025

Community Composition Matters Why

ICSEA is not a quality ranking

ICSEA measures the community a school serves not how well the school teaches. Two schools with identical ICSEA scores can have dramatically different teaching quality, culture, and outcomes. ICSEA is context, not verdict.

Sempre compare like with like

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The composition shift over time

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SEIFA complements ICSEA

Seifa IRSD measures the geographic area around the school (from Census data). It provides a complementary view especially useful for understanding schools in gentrifying or rapidly changing neighborhoods where ICSEA may lag behind the on-the-ground reality