How does academic performance in Melbourne compare with regional Victoria?
Published September 2018
This article is based on data from the 2017 school year.
In our recent article about the top five schools in Victoria, based on the percentage of students with a study score over 40. However, with only one rural school (Ballarat Clarendon College) featuring on the list, it was difficult to grasp how students in regional areas were performing on a broader scale.
As a result, we have compiled two separate tables: one covering the top-performing schools in Victoria classified as metropolitan and the other containing the best of the rural schools.
Naturally, results were stronger in the more densely populated Melbourne area, but there were still some promising scores from their regional counterparts, especially in some remote parts of the state. Murrayville Community College, for example, is located 500 kilometres from Melbourne and more than 260 kilometres from Adelaide yet was the second-best performed school in rural Victoria with 21 per cent of students scoring 40+.
Top metropolitan schools in Victoria
School | Region | Percentage of 40+ scores |
| 38 | |
Melbourne City Central | 37 | |
Eastern Suburbs
| 36
| |
Melbourne City Central
| 31
| |
| 30
|
Top rural schools in Victoria
| School | Region | Percentage of 40+ scores |
| Grampians | 34 | |
| Murrayville Community College | Loddon-Mallee | 21 |
| The Geelong College | Barwon-South Western | 19 |
| Goulburn Valley Grammar School | Goulburn-North Eastern | 17 |
Barwon-South Western Gippsland | 16 16 |
Curious about how your school stacked up in 2017? Check out our School Performance blogs.
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