Top 150 Qld schools: Big names fail to make state’s top 150 list, as others fall
There have been a number of surprising omissions from Queensland’s top 150 schools, while many others have plummeted down the ranks. SEE THE TOP 150
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An elite Brisbane school that charges parents more than $20,000 in fees has been left off a list of Queensland’s top 150 schools compiled by an independent education specialist.
Independent website Better Education released its top 150 Queensland high schools in an array of both government and private school performance between years 7-10.
The selective Queensland Academy for Science, Mathematics and Technology retained its top spot based on 2022 with a perfect score of 100.
Clayfield College however, which had previously claimed a top 50 spot in 2019, was absent from the list altogether in recent years.
Rockhampton Girls Grammar School, St Peter and Paul’s School and Marsden State High School were other notable absences last year along with Padua College which said it was not on the list because it did not supply its results to Better Education.
A further analysis of the top 150 results from 2022 compared with the same list of 2021 has also revealed the schools with the largest downward trends.
Highlands Christian College fell 55 places to sit at 149, Toowoomba Grammar School fell 46 places sit at 96, Coolum Beach Christian College fell 45 places to 144 and Immanuel Lutheran College fell 36 places to 70.
On the point end of the rankings, All Hallows’ School slipped 10 places to 17th, Anglican Church Grammar School fell out of the top 10 to 16th.
Better Education’s list is based on Year 9 results with English and Maths rated out of five and the overall academic performance with three rating scales.
It is an independently-run site that aims to provide “informative and comparative school performance … to parents wanting to make choices about schooling for their children”.
The state government has previously questioned the reliability of the top 150 list saying it does not support “league tables” as a measure of academic performance.
Padua and Clayfield colleges say they do not appear on the list because the Better Education website did not have their data - not because performance has fallen.
Originally published as Top 150 Qld schools: Big names fail to make state’s top 150 list, as others fall
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