About My School

ACARA's My School provides information that helps parents/carers and the community understand the performance of schools over time.

My School contains data on every school in Australia. This includes information on a school’s student profile, its NAPLAN performance and funding. You can also see enrolment numbers and attendance rates.

The My School website provides information that supports national transparency and accountability of Australia’s school education system through publication of nationally consistent school-level data. It complements other reporting measures aimed at ensuring schools and school systems are accountable to parents/carers and to the broader community.

NAPLAN student progress information, published on My School, provides a measure of a school’s impact on its students’ literacy and numeracy outcomes – the difference schools have made to their students’ learning between one NAPLAN test and the next, 2 years later.

Please note: there is no student progress reporting for 2020-2022 following the cancellation of NAPLAN in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There is also no student progress reporting for 2021-2023 due to the resetting of the NAPLAN measurement scale and earlier assessment of students in 2023. However, student progress measures will be available from 2025 onwards.

My School enables a school’s NAPLAN results to be compared with results of students who have a similar background. A school’s student background takes account of parental education levels and employment types, the school's geographic location and the Indigenous status of its students.

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Information for parents and carers

ACARA's My School helps parents and carers have informed discussions with teachers and schools, and make informed decisions about their child’s education. However, it should not replace visiting schools and speaking to teachers and principals to get an understanding of what each school offers its students. A child’s teacher will have the best insight into their educational progress.

The inclusion of data about how schools perform in NAPLAN provides information on only one aspect of school performance and does not measure overall school quality.

The My School website was updated in 2020 to reflect changes agreed by education ministers following a review of My School in 2019. The changes help parents and carers see how a school is performing in supporting student progress (that is, improving literacy and numeracy outcomes over the 2 years since the previous NAPLAN tests), and reduce focus on ‘school versus school’ comparisons that only take account of overall levels of achievement.

Why was My School introduced?

My School provides information that supports national transparency and accountability of Australia’s school education system through publication of nationally consistent school-level data. It complements other reporting measures aimed at ensuring schools and school systems are accountable to parents/carers and to the broader community.

League tables on My School

There are no league tables on My School. This is not the purpose of My School. This website has NAPLAN data for the last 10 years, with the exception of 2020, which allows us to see how a school is doing in the important areas of literacy and numeracy and how a school has performed over time.

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)

My School is run by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). ACARA is an independent authority accountable to the Education Ministers Meeting comprising the Australian Government Minister for Education and Minister for Education in each state and territory.

ACARA is responsible for collecting and reporting data on Australia’s schools, running the National Assessment Program (which includes NAPLAN) and other assessments, and the Australian Curriculum.