Victoria’s top 100 VCE high schools revealed

Single-sex campuses and metropolitan Melbourne schools have dominated a list of Victoria’s top VCE schools — but the state’s top-ranking school comes as a surprise.

Ballarat Clarendon College principal David Shepherd — the regional school has been named Victoria’s best for VCE results.

Victoria’s top VCE schools have been revealed in an analysis of every campus’s class results.

The median study score — which is out of 50 and shows how the entire class performed in their final year of school — has been released for every campus.

A Herald Sun analysis has found the top 100 schools, with single-sex campuses and those in metropolitan Melbourne dominating.

But a regional campus — Ballarat Clarendon College — claimed the title for best in the state.

Meanwhile, Ballarat Grammar, Bendigo’s Girton Grammar and Woodend’s Braemar College also made the top 100.

Victorian College for the Deaf also dominated.

Bialik in Hawthorn East took the podium for the fifth year in a row, this year taking second spot of the whole-school results following first place last year.

Of the public schools, select entries featured most prominently in the list, but some non-select campuses showed incredible results.

Tiny classes of students achieved top scores at the Victorian College for the Deaf and Mallacoota P-12.

But larger public schools Balwyn High, Box Hill High, Glen Waverley Secondary, Frankston High, Kew High, Koonung Secondary and McKinnon Secondary competed strongly with their private counterparts.

VCE 2019: MOST IMPROVED SCHOOLS

TOP SCORERS HONOUR ROLL 2019

VICTORIA’S TOP 100 VCE SCHOOLS 2019

(VCE class median study score / percentage of scores 40 and above)

Victorian College for the Deaf: 42 and 60%*

Ballarat Clarendon College: 39 and 45%

Bialik: 39 and 44.3%

Mount Scopus: 38 and 37.4%

Mallacoota P-12: 38 and 30%*

Huntingtower: 37 and 33.2%

MacRob: 37 and 30.2%

Korowa Anglican Girls: 37 and 29.7%

Ruyton Girls’: 36 and 32.2%

Haileybury Girls: 36 and 30.6%

Beth Rivkah Ladies College: 36 and 30.5%

Camberwell Anglican Girls GS: 36 and 29.8%

Melbourne High: 36 and 29.4%

Haileybury: 36 and 29.2%

Strathcona: 36 and 27.9%

St Kevin’s: 36 and 27.5%

Loreto Mandeville Hall: 36 and 26.7%

Trinity Grammar: 36 and 26.1%

Shelford Girls’: 36 and 25%

Firbank Grammar: 36 and 24.1%

Kilvington: 36 and 23.8%

The King David: 36 and 21%

Yeshivah College: 35 and 28.1%

Scotch College: 35 and 27.2%

Liebler Yavneh College: 35 and 26%

Camberwell Grammar: 35 and 25.9%

Methodist Ladies College: 35 and 25%

Melbourne Grammar: 35 and 23.7%

Genazzano FCJ College: 35 and 23.3%

Sacre Coeur: 35 and 23%

Caulfield Grammar (St Kilda East campus): 35 and 22.6%

PEGS: 35 and 22.5%

Mentone Girls’ Grammar: 35 and 22.3%

Mentone Grammar: 35 and 22%

Nossal High: 35 and 21.9%

Lauriston Girls: 35 and 21.1%

St Catherine’s School: 35 and 20.2%

PLC: 35 and 20.1%

Caulfield Grammar (Wheelers Hill campus): 35 and 19.8%

Star of the Sea: 35 and 16.9%

Goroke P-12: 34 and 25%*

Yesodei HaTorah College: 34 and 25%

Melbourne Girls Grammar: 34 and 24.6%

Toorak College: 34 and 21.8%

Eltham College: 34 and 20%

Lowther Hall: 34 and 18.8%

Yarra Valley Grammar: 34 and 18.8%

Ivanhoe Girls’: 34 and 18.7%

Balwyn High: 34 and 18.6%

Fintona Girls: 34 and 18.2%

East Loddon P-12: 34 and 17.8%

St Margaret’s School: 34 and 16.7%

Ivanhoe Grammar: 34 and 16.4%

Peninsula Grammar: 34 and 16.4%

John Monash Science School: 34 and 16.3%

Xavier College: 34 and 16.2%

Westbourne Grammar: 34 and 15.8%

Suzanne Cory High: 34 and 14.6%

Brighton Grammar: 33 and 18%

Goulburn Valley Grammar: 33 and 17.5%

Victorian College of the Arts: 33 and 16.6%

Melbourne Girls’ College: 33 and 16.4%

The Geelong College: 33 and 16.3%

McKinnon Secondary: 33 and 16.1%

Waverley Christian College: 33 and 15.6%

Wesley College: 33 and 15.1%

Box Hill High: 33 and 14.7%

Ivanhoe Grammar: 33 and 14.5%

St Leonard’s College: 33 and 14.4%

Our Lady of Sion College: 33 and 14.2%

Glen Waverley Secondary: 33 and 13.9%

Siena College: 33 and 13.7%

Carey Baptist Grammar: 33 and 12.9%

Donvale Christian College: 33 and 12.3%

Woodleigh School: 33 and 12.3%

Our Lady of Mercy College: 33 and 11.1%

Ave Maria College: 33 and 9.5%

Koonung Secondary: 33 and 9.4%

Nunawading Christian College: 33 and 7.5%

University High: 32 and 14.3%

Alphington Grammar: 32 and 14%

Ballarat Grammar: 32 and 13.9%

St Michael’s Grammar: 32 and 13.7%

St Paul’s Anglican Grammar: 32 and 13.6%

Kardinia International College: 32 and 13%

Kingswood College: 32 and 12.6%

Canterbury Girls Secondary: 32 and 12.4%

Kew High: 32 and 12.3%

Sacred Heart Girls’ College: 32 and 12.2%

Frankston High: 32 and 11.8%

Gippsland Grammar: 32 and 11.8%

Girton Grammar: 32 and 11.8%

Sacred Heart College Geelong: 32 and 11.6%

Mazenod College: 32 and 11.2%

St Aloysius College: 32 and 11%

St Columba’s College: 32 and 10.5%

Braemar College: 32 and 10.4%

Oxley Christian College: 32 and 10.4%

Vermont Secondary: 32 and 10.3%

East Doncaster Secondary: 32 and 10.2%

*School cohort of less than 10 students

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