Gold Coast’s best secondary schools ranked

The Gold Coast’s best secondary schools have been revealed based on how they fared in NAPLAN last year. See how your local school fared. FULL LIST

Somerset College, AB Paterson College and All Saints Anglican School have been named the best secondary schools on the Gold Coast.

The schools were handed scores of 99 out of 100 by the Better Education website, which conducted an analysis of Year 9 NAPLAN scores in schools across the Gold Coast.

In another major success for Arundel’s AB Paterson College, the school also shared top spot in the list of the Gold Coast’s best primary schools.

Varsity College was the top ranked public school on the list of top secondary schools, while Benowa State High also ranked high up the list.

The Better Education website is run independently of government and describes its aim as providing “informative and comparative school results including school rankings or ratings and lists of best performing schools, to parents wanting to make choices about schooling for their children”.

The best overall score is an index of performance, not a ranking. The best score is 100 and the worst is 60, according to the independent website.

A Department of Education spokesman slammed the reliability of the list.

“The department does not support the creation of simplistic league tables based on a narrow

measure of academic performance,” the spokesman said.

“These measures without context often do not summarise the diversity of education that schools provide.”

Instead, the spokesman pointed parents to resources including the “Choosing a School” page on the Education Queensland website, or the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority’s My School website.