Best Catholic Girls Schools in Melbourne | 2025 Rankings & Insights
Melbourne’s Catholic girls schools offer strong academic pathways, well-developed pastoral care, and rich opportunities across sport, arts and music. Schools360’s 2025 Catholic Girls Rankings provide an independent, data-driven assessment of how these schools perform across academic outcomes, student wellbeing, learning environment, co-curricular program depth and institutional excellence.
Use the table below to explore the leaders in Melbourne’s Catholic girls education for 2025.
Updated January 2025 · Independent analysis by Schools360
2025 Rankings | Melbourne Catholic Girls Schools
This table shows the full list of Catholic girls schools in Melbourne for 2025.
Top 10 Catholic Girls Schools in Melbourne (2025)
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1. Loreto Mandeville Hall
Location: Toorak
Type: Independent Catholic girls school
Strengths: Strong across all five building blocks, with Academic Excellence (93%), Student Wellbeing (92%), Learning Programs (90%) and Institutional Excellence (92%). A high-performing school offering balanced academic pathways and strong pastoral care.
2. Genazzano FCJ College
Location: Kew
Type: Independent Catholic girls school
Strengths: Excellent Learning Programs (92%), strong Learning Environment (90%), and a well-supported wellbeing culture. Known for broad opportunities across sport, arts, music and leadership.
3. Sacré Cœur
Location: Glen Iris
Type: Independent Catholic girls school
Strengths: Strong Academic Excellence (92%), supported by balanced wellbeing and learning environment scores. A values-driven school with deep pastoral care and strong community culture.
4. Star of the Sea College
Location: Brighton
Type: Catholic girls school
Strengths: Strong Learning Environment (85%), positive Student Wellbeing (82%), and broad co-curricular opportunities. Known for strong community identity and student support.
5. Loreto College
Location: Ballarat (Regional VIC)
Type: Catholic girls school
Strengths: Excellent Student Wellbeing (88%), supported by solid program depth and a strong regional community culture. Balanced strengths across academic and developmental pathways.
6. Mercy College
Location: Coburg
Type: Catholic girls school
Strengths: Good wellbeing performance (82%) and strong Learning Programs (80%), with a supportive learning environment and broad subject and co-curricular pathways.
7. Siena College
Location: Camberwell
Type: Catholic girls school
Strengths: Strong Learning Programs (83%), balanced wellbeing and program offerings, and supportive pastoral systems. Known for strong arts, music and student leadership opportunities.
8. Sacred Heart College
Location: Geelong (Regional VIC)
Type: Catholic girls school
Strengths: Strong wellbeing (90%) with a supportive learning environment and stable institutional foundation. A long-established regional Catholic girls school with broad opportunities.
9. Ave Maria College
Location: Aberfeldie
Type: Catholic girls school
Strengths: Strong Student Wellbeing (85%), supportive culture and balanced environment. Offers solid academic pathways and a strong sense of community.
10. Kilbreda College
Location: Mentone
Type: Catholic girls school
Strengths: Balanced strengths with Academic Excellence (76%) and strong Learning Environment (75%). Known for supportive community, pastoral care and broad co-curricular programs.
Key Insights
Catholic girls schools in Victoria show a clear hierarchy of performance across the Schools360 framework, with the strongest schools combining academic ambition, high-quality learning environments and strong cultural identity. The data points to several consistent themes that matter for both families and school leaders.
Academic Excellence separates the top three schools from the rest of the category. Loreto Mandeville Hall, Sacré Cœur and Genazzano hold significantly higher academic profiles than other Catholic girls schools. These schools operate with clearer expectations, stronger learning support structures and better-defined academic pathways, which translate into more consistent student outcomes and readiness for senior years.
Learning Environment quality is a major driver of differentiation. Schools with stronger scores demonstrate well-resourced campuses, higher-quality teaching practices and better integration of technology into learning. Families benefit through more modern classroom experiences, broader subject delivery and stronger alignment between teaching practice and student engagement.
Learning Programs strength aligns strongly with holistic student development. Schools such as Genazzano, Siena College and Loreto Mandeville Hall offer deeper co-curricular breadth across sport, arts, music and leadership. These environments give students more opportunities to discover personal strengths, build confidence and participate in structured development activities beyond the classroom.
Student Wellbeing performance highlights the importance of culture. Schools with higher wellbeing scores provide clearer behavioural standards, stronger pastoral systems and a more supportive sense of belonging. Families experience more predictable schooling environments and stronger reinforcement of values, routine and personal development.
Institutional Excellence underscores long-term confidence. Higher-performing schools show stronger leadership capability, clearer governance and more deliberate long-term planning. This results in more consistent school performance, better program investment and stronger reputational trust within the community.
Taken together, the top Catholic girls schools offer a combination of academic strength, strong pastoral foundations and deep developmental opportunities supported by stable leadership and modern learning environments.
Snapshot for 2025
A clear academic top tier delivers stronger student pathways, higher performance expectations and more structured academic support.
Schools with stronger Learning Environment scores provide higher-quality facilities, modern classroom experiences, better teaching practice and stronger technology integration.
Program breadth in sport, arts, music and leadership gives students broader opportunities to develop confidence, capability and personal identity.
High-performing wellbeing cultures contribute to safer, more predictable school environments with stronger belonging and pastoral care for students.
Schools with stronger Institutional Excellence demonstrate more stable leadership, higher reputational trust and more consistent long-term capability building.
Metropolitan and regional leaders both feature in the top tier, giving families strong options regardless of location.
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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