Katherine School of the Air

Join a Tour and discover how students who live in isolated and remote locations across the Northern Territory and beyond are educated by Distance Education material IDL (Interactive Distance Learning) The Virtual Classroom!

KSA offers Distance Education from preschool to year 9.

Enrolments = approx. 250 students who live on cattle stations and Aboriginal communities and families who are travelling throughout Australia and Overseas.

KSA borders are from north to the Tiwi Islands, south to the Barkly Tablelands district, east to the Queensland border and west to the Western Australian border.

Teachers go on ‘Patrol’ to visit students at their homes.

Total kilometres travelled by either road or plane averages over 120,000 kms per year.

We are located approx 1.5 km from Katherine Town Centre on the way to Katherine Gorge.

Tours are weekdays from mid March till mid November.