Cairns West State School seeks to create an environment that provides success for all of our students. To do this, Cairns West has a culture of setting high expectations for student learning, professional accountabilities for the teaching and learning process, and by creating intentionally inviting classrooms. At Cairns West State School, we proudly recognise Indigenous cultures and traditions and seek to embed indigenous perspectives across all aspects of the schooling experience. We further seek to engage with parents and carers to empower them to better contribute to their children's education. In essence, our priority is to ensure every day, in every classroom, every student is learning and achieving. Cairns West State School is central to the tri-hub of Mooroobool, Manunda and Manoora suburbs. Our school community is made up of diverse multicultural backgrounds, many of our 520 students being from non-English Speaking backgrounds, the approximate distribution being: Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal students 70%, Cook Islanders 15%, Bhutanese and North African 7% and Caucasian 8%. One of the ways in which we achieve our aims is through our school's "Academic Success Guarantee". This is a program that was developed in response to the challenge of continual low attendance, low performance and low expectations for indigenous students. The hope was to develop schooling at Cairns West into a service that creates and expects academic success and who in partnership with parents, delivers on that success. As part of this guarantee, the school implemented a continuous improvement strategy of performance targets and reviews as well as a reorganisation of support resources. Put simply, our Academic Success Guarantee is a signed agreement between parents and the school that states and commits to our aspirations: Cairns West State School is committed to ensuring students who attend 95% or more of the school year will meet or beat their year level benchmarks. In partnership with parents, we are committed to doing..