Loreto College apologises to students for error which resulted in students receiving lower ATAR results
It has been revealed what caused a number of private school students, who paid more than $20k to attend this year, to receive an incorrect ATAR score.
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The principal of one of South Australia’s top private girls’ schools has apologised to her students following an error in ATAR results which left them waking up to scores up to 10 points lower.
In a letter from Loreto College Marryatville principal Kylie McCullah, sent to families on Tuesday, she revealed that an administrative error caused the incorrect ATAR results.
A group of school leavers at Loreto College, Marryatville, were left devastated and in tears after their vocational education subjects were not counted towards their ATAR, impacting their final result.
It is understood many students were in tears when they received their initial, incorrect scores on Monday morning.
By 4pm that day, the students had received their updated, correct scores.
The 14 students affected by the error all completed Certificate III VET courses.
It cost $20,845 for year 12 students to attend Loreto College this year.
On Monday, Ms McCullah said “the college followed the usual process for submitting VET results”.
But in her letter to families on Tuesday, Ms McCullah said that “it was confirmed last night that an additional administrative step needed to be actioned”.
“Once this step was completed the students’ ATARs were recalculated and confirmed,” she said.
“We acknowledge the distress resulting from the situation and have apologised to the students and their families involved.
“This situation applied solely to the 2024 VET courses studied and no previous year’s VET courses were affected”.
SACE Board chief executive Michaela Bensley said on Monday “there hasn’t been an error in the processing of results”.
VET subjects count towards the total ATAR by creating an average of other subjects to create a score out of 20.
The Australian Tertiary Admission Rank – or ATAR – compares students’ grades to other members of their cohort via numerical value, capping at the 99.95 ‘perfect’ score.
Loreto College declined to comment further.
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