NAPLAN 2025: The full list of Victoria’s top schools revealed
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Melbourne’s four selective-entry high schools have maintained their position as the state’s best, as Victoria celebrates its strongest NAPLAN results.
The 2025 data, released on the My School website on Wednesday, revealed all-boys government school Melbourne High has outdone itself, with an average Year 9 NAPLAN score of 717.8 – a 12.6 point improvement from 2024.
Students sitting NAPLAN were assessed across reading, writing, spelling, grammar and numeracy, with this year’s test taking place in March.
The Herald Sun has analysed the NAPLAN Year 5 and Year 9 results of more than 1800 primary, secondary and combined schools in Victoria, to find the state’s best performers.
The state’s three other selective-entry schools MacRobertson Girls High School (706.6), Nossal High (702.8) and Suzanne Cory High (696.4) rounded out the top four – all achieving average marks above 696.
Ballarat Clarendon College was the top private secondary school in the state with an average NAPLAN score of 669.4, and was also the top school at the primary level (590.2).
Other top private school performers at the secondary level included Presbyterian Ladies’ College (666.8), Haileybury College (664.6), Fintona Girls’ School (664.4), Camberwell Girls School (661.8) and Lighthouse Christian College Cranbourne (660.6).
As for state schools that aren’t selective entry, Glen Waverley Secondary College was the best government school in Victoria with a NAPLAN average across the five domains of 630.6.
Outside the elite independent schools, Genazzano FCJ College was the best Catholic school with an average of 631, followed by Sacre Coeur (630.6).
At the primary school level, top performers included Presbyterian Ladies’ College (588.8), Haileybury College (588.4), Lighthouse Christian College Cranbourne (588.4) and St Andrews Christian College (587).
Meanwhile outstanding state primary schools included Oakleigh South Primary (585.4), Wheelers Hill Primary (585.4), Beverley Hills Primary (579.2), Serpell Primary (572.4) and Canterbury Primary (571.8).
Education Minister Ben Carroll said the strong results were “vindication” for the government’s mandate for explicit instruction, which “leaves no one behind”.
“Today’s NAPLAN results are again vindication for Victoria being the education state with the world’s best teachers, the scientific evidence, we are making sure that no student, whatever their postcode goes without,” Mr Caroll said.
“To see across Australia, 40 schools identified in Victoria as being the outstanding performers across every single postcode of Melbourne, from diverse parts of the state … it’s just outstanding to see Victoria’s NAPLAN results and Victoria once again leading the nation.
“I think in education it is so critically important that you always have that focus on excellence and equity that everyone can fulfil their dreams and in the education state it’s more important than ever.
“But this does show that our teachers are doing a great job inside the classroom.”
But this year’s results are not all about top-performers, with a suburban primary school tucked away in Melbourne’s west being recognised as the third most-improved in the state.
About 68 per cent of Year 5 students at Sunshine Harvester Primary School scored above average results this year compared to when they first sat the government test in 2023.
This puts them in line with Wheelers Hill Primary, which was the second most-improved school in the state and slightly behind leading school Albanvale Primary where 70 per cent of students achieved above average results.
Sunshine Harvester Primary Principal Polly Hansen said she was “over the moon” about her students’ results.
“I am extremely proud of our students. We are a culturally diverse school with many students coming from refugee and disadvantaged backgrounds so really over the moon,” she said.
“Our students are doing well across the curriculum and all NAPLAN-assessed domains.
“In particular our Year 3 students have performed particularly well and I believe this is credit to our strong early years program.”
In addition to taking the crown as the third most-improved school in the state, the primary school – which is home to more than 300 students – was also selected by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) for “making a difference”.
Overall, the school’s Year 5 students achieved an average score of 469.6 this year, with writing their best subject at an average score of 478.
This was followed by an average score of 477 in spelling and 466 in reading.
Ms Hansen said this was an incredible achievement for her students, with 84 per cent coming from a language background other than English.
“Our teachers believe every child have the ability to learn which is key,” Ms Hansen said.
“This means our students are able to achieve their academic potential in a supportive environment with trusted adults.”
Originally published as NAPLAN 2025: The full list of Victoria’s top schools revealed
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