How schools in Warrnambool and surrounds performed in NAPLAN 2024

An independent primary school has dominated Warrnambool’s NAPLAN rankings, but a Catholic school has taken out top honours in spelling.

The Hamilton and Alexandra College’s grade five cohort scored the highest in reading and spelling, snagging them as the number one spot among the top NAPLAN schools. Picture: GoogleMaps

An independent primary school has dominated Warrnambool’s NAPLAN rankings, but a Catholic school has taken out top honours in spelling.

The Hamilton and Alexandra College’s grade five cohort scored the highest in reading and spelling, snagging them as the number one spot among the top NAPLAN schools for the region.

However St Patrick’s School in Port Fairy outperformed them in grammar and Good Shepherd College outshining them in spelling.

St Pats ranked second for the overall average, with Warrnambool’s St Joseph’s coming in third on the leaderboard.

When it came to high school, year nine students at Warrnambool’s King’s College — where parents will pay at least $42,000 for six years of school — outranked the rest, with an average of 589.2.

Results in writing were the school’s lowest, but they ranked number one in every other subject in the region, with the highest being 605 in reading.

Casterton Secondary College — the leading government school in the region — took the second rank with year nine students scoring the highest in writing.

Terang College and Mortlake P-12 College received very similar results, with 0.2 points different in their average score.

To determine how each school performed in 2024, the scores for all five test subjects for the student cohort – Year 5 or Year 9 – were combined and the average found.

Students are tested on the reading, writing, spelling, grammar and numeracy skills.

Special schools, schools with less than 20 students enrolled, and schools that did not report any results for NAPLAN subjects were excluded from the analysis.