Harrington Public School is an integral part of our beautiful seaside community nestled around the mouth of the Manning River. Our aim is to equip students with the skills, values and fundamental knowledge necessary to participate in a technological world. A balanced curriculum is centred upon the mastery of essential literacy and numeracy skills while catering for individual differences. We celebrate diversity in our small school and our enthusiastic students, caring and committed teachers, supportive parents and community all work together to implement our school motto 'Moving Forward Together'. Due to our small size and our highly transient population, simplistic trend statistics as displayed in My School do not always show a true representation of just how successful we are at Harrington. Because of our boutique size we always have a relatively low cohort of students sitting NAPLAN tests, thus trend data based upon school averages is not particularly reliable. A more valid indicator of success is by measuring progress (academic growth rates) of individual students. Harrington Public School students consistently have academic growth well above state averages, and NAPLAN data shows that we excel at improving students and definitely are fulfilling our school motto 'Moving Forward Together' e.g. this year's NAPLAN results showed School Reading Growth as being 15.58 points above the state average. Harrington Public School is a very happy learning environment. We always have attendance rates well above state level, sometimes approaching the best attendance in the state. Our local community is an essential component of our award winning tutor programs, successfully helping all students needing extra support, as well as providing enrichment programs for our more talented students. We offer a well rounded education at Harrington Public School with students enthusiastically participating in dance and choir groups in local eisteddfods. We also provide opportunities for guitar and violin lessons. Every year we hold ??..