Topping the list in the region was Dalwallinu District High School whose overall performance was about in line with the national average and across many areas was substantially above the average.

Dalwallinu had a strong group of year seven students last year and they helped bring up the school’s statistics by substantially outperforming students across the nation in nearly every tested subject area.

These students also managed higher results than their counterparts at a number of expensive private schools.

All school s showed a vast improvement from the start of testing last year but were weakest in the area of numeracy.

Jurien Bay District High School had the least number of students in the bottom quarter of results and their performance was largely equivalent to other schools with similar socio-educational status.

Central Midlands Senior High School, who were given the lowest socio-educational ranking of schools in the region, nevertheless were only fractionally below the national average and performed better than most other schools in similar situations.

The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) has launched the website as part of its requirements to make information about schools’ performance publicly available.

ACARA has developed a socio-educational index to help when comparing schools results.

The index includes weightings for the number of indigenous enrolments, remoteness and other socio-economic factors.