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


Yesodei HaTorah College


Southern Suburbs & Western Port

38

The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School

Melbourne City Central

37


Bialik College


Mount Scopus Memorial College

Eastern Suburbs


Southern Suburbs & Western Port

36


36


Melbourne High School


St Kevin's College

Melbourne City Central


Melbourne City Central

31


31

Lauriston Girls' School


Huntingtower School


Southern Suburbs & Western Port


Southern Suburbs & Western Port

30


30


Top rural schools in Victoria

School Region Percentage of 40+ scores

Ballarat Clarendon College

Grampians 34
Murrayville Community College Loddon-Mallee 21
The Geelong College Barwon-South Western 19
Goulburn Valley Grammar School Goulburn-North Eastern 17

Apollo Bay P-12 College

Swifts Creek P-12 School

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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