Best Catholic Co-educational Schools in Melbourne | 2025 Rankings & Insights
Melbourne’s Catholic co-educational secondary colleges offer families a values-driven environment with balanced academic pathways, strong wellbeing foundations and inclusive school cultures. Schools360’s 2025 Catholic Co-Ed Rankings provide an independent analysis of how these schools perform across academic results, pastoral care, learning environment quality, program breadth and institutional strength.
Use the table below to explore the leaders in Melbourne’s private co-ed education for 2025.
Updated December 2025 · Independent analysis by Schools360
2025 Rankings | Melbourne Catholic Co-ed Schools
This table shows the full list of Catholic co-educational schools in Melbourne for 2025.
Top 10 Catholic Co-educational Schools in Melbourne (2025)
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1. Marymede Catholic College — 78.5%
Location: South Morang
Strengths: Well-balanced performance across all building blocks with Academic Excellence (80%), strong Learning Environment (78%), and Institutional Excellence (78%). Families benefit from a modern campus, broad program depth and strong community culture.
2. St Peter’s College — 78.3%
Location: Cranbourne & Clyde North
Strengths: Broad strengths across wellbeing and programs, supported by strong community engagement. A large Catholic co-ed college offering extensive opportunities across sport, arts and technology.
3. Aquinas College — 76.6%
Location: Ringwood
Strengths: Strong Learning Environment (85%), supported by a well-established academic program and solid institutional capability. Offers good teaching quality and modern facilities.
4. St John’s Regional College — 76.3%
Location: Dandenong
Strengths: Strong performance in Student Wellbeing (78%) and a supportive culture that reinforces belonging and behavioural clarity. Broad program offerings across sport, arts and vocational pathways.
5. Nazareth College — 76.1%
Location: Noble Park North
Strengths: Consistent performance across learning environment, wellbeing and institutional strength. Strong pastoral systems and a community-oriented school culture.
6. Iona College Geelong — 75.5%
Location: Charlemont (Geelong region)
Strengths: Strong Student Wellbeing (82%) and a positive learning environment. A growing regional Catholic college with modern facilities and strong pastoral identity.
7. Kolbe Catholic College — 74.8%
Location: Greenvale
Strengths: Strong Academic Excellence (80%) supported by a safe and structured environment. Offers a balanced learning experience with clear focus on student engagement.
8. Mount Lilydale Mercy College — 73.6%
Location: Lilydale
Strengths: Strong community culture, balanced academic performance, and broad offerings across sport, performing arts and applied learning programs.
9. St Aloysius College — 71.0%
Location: North Melbourne
Strengths: Good Academic Excellence (72%) and strong pastoral foundations. A long-established Catholic girls’ college transitioning to a fully co-educational model with increasing program depth.
10. St Francis Catholic College — 70.9%
Location: Melton South
Strengths: Positive wellbeing culture, modern facilities and broad developmental pathways. A large, growing college serving Melbourne’s western corridor.
Key Insights
The Catholic co-educational sector in Victoria shows a consistent pattern of balanced performance supported by strong pastoral culture and community identity. Several themes stand out clearly in the 2025 data.
A small group of schools deliver materially stronger academic performance. Marymede, Kolbe, and St Peter’s lead the sector with higher Academic Excellence scores and clearer learning expectations. These schools provide families with structured academic support and stronger senior pathways.
Learning Environment quality is a differentiator across the top performers. Top scoring schools demonstrate better teaching environments, improved facilities and more effective use of technology. This translates into engaging classroom experiences and broader subject delivery.
Wellbeing is a category strength, but top performers offer more predictable school culture. Schools like Iona, St John’s and Nazareth combine pastoral systems with consistent behavioural expectations. Families experience safer, more orderly environments that reinforce belonging and daily routine.
Program breadth is improving across the Catholic co-ed system. High performers provide strong opportunities across sport, performing arts, applied learning and leadership. This breadth helps students build confidence, capability and diverse skill sets beyond core academics.
Institutional capability varies, but stronger schools show clear leadership direction. Top scoring schools demonstrate more stable governance and better alignment between strategy, resourcing and student outcomes. This underpins more consistent performance and stronger long-term development.
Taken together, Catholic co-educational schools offer a balanced mix of academic pathways, modern facilities, pastoral strength and broad developmental opportunities anchored in strong community values.
Snapshot for 2025
A clear leading group outperforming peers by combining academic strength with strong wellbeing and learning environments.
Schools with higher Learning Environment scores offer better facilities, stronger teaching practice and more modern learning experiences.
Wellbeing culture remains a core advantage, with predictable behaviour standards and strong pastoral support across the top schools.
Program breadth across sport, arts, music, applied learning and leadership gives students wider developmental paths.
Stronger schools show more stable leadership, clearer strategy and deliberate investment in long-term capability.
Both metropolitan and regional schools feature in the upper tier, providing families with strong options across Melbourne and Geelong.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Schools360 uses a 60-Element Scoring Framework that assesses academic results, learning environment, student wellbeing, culture, co-curricular depth and institutional excellence. The framework focuses on balanced, holistic school performance rather than a single academic metric.
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Rankings are based on publicly available data, school-reported information and independent Schools360 research. Each school’s profile reflects the most reliable and current data available at the time of the annual update.
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