# Lewisham Public School

Lewisham Public School is a NSW government primary school in Lewisham, New South Wales, Australia.

- **Sector**: NSW government school
- **Type**: Primary School
- **Gender**: Co-ed
- **Year levels**: Kindergarten to Year 6
- **Enrolments**: 198 (2025)
- **Address**: 49 The Boulevarde, Lewisham NSW 2049
- **Phone**: (02) 9569 4536
- **Website**: https://lewisham-p.schools.nsw.gov.au
- **Email**: lewisham-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au
- **ACARA AGE ID**: 47606
- **Established**: 1965-01-01

## About

Lewisham Public School is a rapidly growing and dynamic K-6 school located in the inner-west of Sydney. It is welcoming and proudly inclusive, catering to the changing needs, talents and aspirations of future-focused learners. The school provides high-quality differentiated learning programs in a creative and caring environment, nurturing responsible, respectful, resilient, and self-directed learners through a strong focus on multimodal communication, creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking in learning. 

## Educational Approach  
Positive relationships, high expectations, and a strong school community spirit underpin practices at Lewisham Public School. The school has built a reputation for its initiatives in the arts, talent development and enrichment, project-based learning, and embedded digital citizenship. Unique features of the school include its commitment to personal goal setting with regular three-way conferences, quality opportunities in literacy, numeracy, and the arts, and a successful community events program supported by a committed P & C.

## Values and Culture  
The school values imagination, creative and critical thinking, and promotes excellence, opportunity, and differentiation in teaching and learning. Relationships among students, staff, and parents are seen as foundational for quality learning. Emphasising resilience, personal growth, and community spirit, the school aims to foster a learning environment that supports student engagement, well-being, self-confidence, and social responsibility.  
The guiding ethos encourages students from all backgrounds to dream, learn, and work towards their aspirations in a nurturing and inclusive environment.

## Mission

Lewisham Public School is committed to providing quality programs within a creative, collaborative and caring environment that values respectful relationships, opportunity and innovation. We help every student to learn, grow and succeed.

Motto: "Dream it. Work to achieve it!"

## Enrolment history

| Year | Enrolments |
| --- | --- |
| 2025 | 198 |
| 2024 | 217 |
| 2023 | 217 |
| 2022 | 241 |
| 2021 | 238 |
| 2020 | 239 |
| 2019 | 217 |
| 2018 | 216 |
| 2017 | 193 |
| 2016 | 179 |
| 2015 | 150 |
| 2014 | 111 |
| 2013 | 103 |
| 2012 | 95 |
| 2011 | 88 |
| 2010 | 81 |
| 2009 | 90 |
| 2008 | 91 |

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Source: SchoolAtlas (https://www.schoolatlas.com.au/schools/47606-lewisham-public-school), compiled from ACARA and NSW Department of Education data, reference year 2025. SchoolAtlas does not rank schools.