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Location Profile

Kangaroo Ground Primary School is in a semi-rural environment. Established in 1853, the school has one Foundation class and seven composite classes. Enrolments are growing with currently 169 students. Kangaroo Ground Primary has 22 staff members comprising 9 full-time staff and 13 part-time staff members, these include Specialist, Wellbeing as well as 8 ES staff working in our classes.  The school has a relatively low SFO rating of 0.24. 

Kangaroo Ground Primary provides a safe, secure, high performing and stimulating environment where individual differences are valued and where risk-taking, co-operation and effective communication is encouraged. It is an environment that fosters student confidence and promotes a culture in which students, staff, parents and other members of the community display a sense of pride. We aim to provide a broad and comprehensive curriculum which ensures that students are supported and extended to meet their needs and aspirations and to optimise student achievement and success by ensuring each student is challenged, extended and motivated to reach their potential. 

The junior school curriculum is underpinned by the Little Learners love literacy phonetic approach to teaching literacy. The effectiveness of our explicit teaching model is clearly demonstrated by our student academic performance results which are consistently high by all measures.

 Our school community functions in a highly valued partnership and is actively involved in projects to sustain this culture. Parents are involved in many different aspects of school life such as…