Victorian Schools Guide: All you need to know about your school’s VCE performance

Welcome to the Victorian Schools Guide, an Australian-first, one-stop database offering you the chance to view the VCE performance, top subjects, high achievers, ten-year results and student pathways of all schools offering year 12 to help you make the best school choices for your child.

Enter the name of your school in the interactive or search by area to see the results.

The Age’s easy-to-use interactive dashboard allows you to see how your school performed, which subjects your school most excelled in and how its performance has tracked over the past decade.

It covers all Victorian government, independent and Catholic schools, showcasing high achievers, completion rates, and their performance over the past decade.

What can I learn from this interactive tool?

By entering a school name in the search bar of the interactive, you can find out detailed data on VCE and vocational education performance, top subject results and graduates’ pathways after they finish year 12. Data on the number of students, teaching staff and school communities’ social advantage is also available to view.

You can see whether your school, or a school whose results you’re researching, has featured in The Age’s Schools that Excel awards, an annual initiative celebrating schools that achieve outstanding improvement in performance over 10 years.

If you wish to explore and compare the performance of nearby schools, enter your address or suburb in the search bar of the interactive to reveal data about schools within a 10-kilometre radius.

What does the interactive show?

VCE RESULTS shows data on a school’s VCE performance and completion rate, the scale of its VCE program, and information on vocational education enrolments.

The key figure is the median study score. VCE study scores are out of 50, and 30 is the average. A school’s median study score is the middle result of all students’ VCE results, and is the best available performance measure.

A median study score of 30 is a marker of an academically solid school, while only a couple of dozen top schools achieve a median study score of 35 or above each year.

If a student achieves a study score of 40 or above in a VCE subject, it means their results are within the top 10 per cent. The field Percentage of study scores of 40 and over reveals the percentage of high scores across all the VCE subjects completed at a school.

VCE TOP SUBJECTS displays data on VCE students who scored 40 or above in individual subjects. Keep in mind that this section does not display the definitive totals for each school’s study scores of 40 or above, as some students opt out of allowing their results to be published.

This section is not displayed if the school you’re looking up did not record any study scores of 40 or above in 2025, or if students at a school declined to have their results published.

VCE RESULTS OVER TIME allows you to view a school’s VCE results and completion rates over the past decade.

STUDENT PATHWAYS shows what 2023’s year 12 graduates were doing midway through 2024 – whether they were studying at university or TAFE, completing an apprenticeship or working.

The Victorian Department of Education’s annual On Track survey of 2024 graduates is under way, so data for 2023 is the latest available. Survey results are not available for all schools, so this section does not appear if a low percentage of a school’s year 12 graduates participated in the study.

Which schools are featured in the Victorian Schools Guide?

This comprehensive interactive displays data for all Victorian schools that offer year 12 subjects.

Which schools do not feature in the interactive?

Primary schools and secondary schools that don’t offer year 12 subjects do not appear in the interactive.

How and when will the interactive be updated?

The Age will update data displayed in the interactive periodically, after Victorian education authorities release new data sets for each feature, such as VCE results.

We also plan to add new sections, featuring additional data sets, to the interactive in coming months to help guide you in your school choices.

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