Woodville Gardens School

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Coordinates34°51′48″S 138°33′04″E / 34.8633°S 138.5510°E / -34.8633; 138.5510
TypeState primary day school[1]
Religious affiliationNon-denominational[2]
Established2011[1][3]
Woodville Gardens School
Location
18-58 Ridley Grove

Woodville Gardens, Adelaide
,
South Australia
,
5012

Australia
Coordinates34°51′48″S 138°33′04″E / 34.8633°S 138.5510°E / -34.8633; 138.5510
Information
TypeState primary day school[1]
Religious affiliationNon-denominational[2]
Established2011[1][3]
AuthorityDepartment for Education (South Australia)[1]
PrincipalKristian Mundy[4][5]
Head teacher
  • Chris Stepien (Early years)[6]
  • Scott Foale (Primary years)[6]
Year levelsBirth - Year 6[4][5][7][1]
GenderCoeducational[1]
Enrolment478[1] (August 2025)
Campus typeSuburban[1]
Colours
  •   Purple
  •   Teal
  •   Navy
Websitewww.wgs.sa.edu.au[5]

Woodville Gardens School is a public coeducational primary school, located in the Adelaide suburb of Woodville Gardens (South Australia, Australia).[1][2][3] It is administered by the South Australian Department for Education. The school falls within the "Parks" ward of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council area.[8][9][5][1][3]

Woodville Gardens School was created as a result of a merger between five schools, i.e. Ferryden Park Primary School, Ridley Grove Junior Primary School, Mansfield Park Primary School, Woodville Gardens Preschool, and Parks Children's Centre.[10][11] The merger occurred as part of the Education Works New Schools Project of the Department of Education and Children's Services,[12] which resulted in the school's lands being earmarked for new housing development.[13] Woodville Gardens School was built on the Ridley Grove site of one of the schools involved in the merger, Ridley Grove Junior Primary School, which was established in 1949 but closed in 1994.[14]

The Woodville Gardens School council was officially established under the Education Act 1972 (SA), s85(1)(a)[15] on 30 September 2010.[16] Woodville Gardens School was opened on 31 January 2011.[17]

Administration

As of 2025, the school has a teaching staff of 44 (39.2 full-time equivalent) and non-teaching staff of 39 (23.0 full-time equivalent).[1]

The first principal of the school was Frank Cairns.[18] The current principal is Kristian Mundy.[4][5]

Prior Principals
Principal Years
Initial Ref Final Ref
Kristian Mundy 2025 [5][4] Current [19]
Scott Foale (Acting) 2023 [20][21] 2024 [22]
Sue Charleston 2022 [23] 2023 [21][24][25][26]
Fiona Voigt 2016 [27][28][29][30] 2021 [31]
Marg Clark (Acting)† 2015 [32][33] 2015 [32][33]
Frank Cairns 2010 [18][34] 2015 [32][35][33]

† Marg Clark, the then Head of School Primary Years, was an acting Principal during 2015.[32][33]

Students

Child Care Centre

On the school premises is a Children’s Centre catering for birth to school age,[36] with a curriculum based on the Early Years Learning Framework, targeting children aged 12 weeks to school age entry.[37]

General Enrolment

As a whole, Woodville Gardens School teaches students from Birth to Year 6.[1] The trends in enrolment have been:

Student enrolment trends
Year Boys Girls Total Ref
2011 329 273 602 [38]
2012 323 284 607 [39]
2013 317 303 620 [40]
2014 287 303 590 [41]
2015 297 287 584 [42]
2016 285 292 577 [43]
2017 283 285 568 [44]
2018 285 276 561 [45]
2019 280 272 552 [46]
2020 275 277 552 [47]
2021 262 247 509 [48]
2022 234 188 422 [49][23]
2023 239 203 442 [50][20]
2024 234 230 464 [51][5]
2025 242 236 478 [1]
2026 TBA TBA TBA

Multiculturalism

These are some of the statistics on the school's indigenous students and those students with a language background other than English (LBOTE):

Multicultural Composition
Year Indigenous
(%)		 LBOTE
(%)		 Ref
2014 11 63 [41]
2015 10 65 [42]
2016 11 62 [43]
2017 12 64 [44]
2018 12 61 [45]
2019 11 67 [46]
2020 11 66 [47]
2021 10 66 [48]
2022 10 65 [49]
2023 9 71 [50]
2024 9 72 [51]
2025 9 72 [1]
2025 N/A N/A

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