VCE 2019: Every school’s median study scores revealed
Co-ed private schools took the podium of the best VCE classes while girls’ schools dominated overall in 2019. But the biggest shock emerged in regional Victoria. Search every school’s performance.
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Regional schools are on the rise, rocketing ahead for class results in this year’s VCE.
The median study scores of every school have been revealed, showing how each campus’s entire cohort performed.
Co-ed private schools took the podium of Victoria’s best VCE classes, but girls’ schools dominated overall in the 2019 top performers.
SEE EVERY SCHOOL’S MEDIAN VCE RESULTS
Tiny public cohorts showed some impressive results — just five students from Victorian College for the Deaf took out the highest median study score of 42 through its Auslan sign language subject.
And rural school Mallacoota P-12 in East Gippsland — with seven year 11s taking year 12 classes — brought in the same median score as Burwood’s Mount Scopus of 38.
Ballarat Clarendon College boosted its median score by three points in a single year to 39 and took out the best whole-school result in the state, with Bialik in Hawthorn East a very close second.
Principal David Shepherd said the “very exciting” results proved “regional cities can do this stuff”.
“It shows your regional and rural students that if they get the right instruction, they can achieve great results” he said.
“The challenges that face rural and regional kids are very significant. We are very excited for our town and for our school.”
STUDENTS’ ATAR RESULTS RELEASED
Mr Shepherd said the rise was “a reflection that we try to use all the data we get”, with the school also encouraging staff to get together and share classroom strategies.
VCD Auslan teacher Marnie Kerridge said her handful of students’ median score of 42 was achieved by focusing them on how, what and who they were signing to.
Students also did mock exams in front of staff and other students while “speed dating” practice had also been used.
“Deaf students are often seen not always being able to achieve, so this is a positive way to celebrate our students, our school, our language and our deafhood,” she said.
Isolated rural school Mallacoota P-12 has been “buzzing” over its top result of 38, principal Tim Cashmore said.
The principal, who also teaches history, said the students’ scores in outdoor education, visual communication and psychology came through teachers having “really strong relationships with our kids”.
“We have good outcomes usually but we’ve had a terrific outcome this year,” he said
He said the school of just 128 students from prep to 12 would offer 17 VCE subjects next year, with a visiting biology teacher from Orbost — two hours’ drive away.
“Our staff deliver the best teaching we can,” Mr Cashmore said.
“Although the cohorts are small, that’s a real advantage for one-on-one teaching.”
All the school’s year 12 students did VET this year, so they didn’t get an ATAR or VCE study scores.
But Mr Cashmore said by smashing a year 12 subject in year 11, the younger students “feel better prepared”.
“That learning confidence is really important for them,” he said.
VICTORIA’S TOP 20 VCE SCHOOLS 2019
(VCE class median study score / percentage of scores 40 and above)
Victorian College for the Deaf: 42 and 60 per cent
Ballarat Clarendon College: 39 and 45 per cent
Bialik: 39 and 44.3 per cent
Mount Scopus: 38 and 37.4 per cent
Mallacoota P-12: 38 and 30 per cent
Huntingtower: 37 and 33.2 per cent
MacRob: 37 and 30.2 per cent
Korowa Anglican Girls: 37 and 29.7 per cent
Ruyton Girls’: 36 and 32.2 per cent
Haileybury Girls: 36 and 30.6 per cent
Beth Rivkah Ladies College: 36 and 30.5 per cent
Camberwell Anglican Girls GS: 36 and 29.8 per cent
Melbourne High: 36 and 29.4 per cent
Haileybury: 36 and 29.2 per cent
Strathcona: 36 and 27.9 per cent
St Kevin’s: 36 and 27.5 per cent
Loreto Mandeville Hall: 36 and 26.7 per cent
Trinity Grammar: 36 and 26.1 per cent
Shelford Girls’: 36 and 25 per cent
Firbank Grammar: 36 and 24.1 per cent