Best Catholic Schools in Perth | 2025 Rankings & Insights
Catholic schools play a significant role in Western Australia’s independent education landscape, combining strong academic expectations with values-based education, pastoral care and broad co-curricular opportunities.
Schools360’s 2025 Catholic Schools Rankings for Western Australia provide an independent, data-driven assessment of how leading Catholic schools perform across academic outcomes, student wellbeing, learning environment, program depth and long-term institutional capability.
Use the rankings below to explore the highest-performing Catholic schools in Western Australia for 2025.
Updated December 2025 · Independent analysis by Schools360
Image credit: Trinity College, East Perth2025 Rankings | Western Australia Catholic Schools
This table shows the full list of private Catholic schools in Perth for 2025.
Top 10 Catholic Schools in Perth (2025)
Image credit: St Brigid's College, Lesmurdie1. Trinity College
Location: East Perth
Type: Independent Catholic boys school
Strengths: The highest-ranked Catholic school in WA for 2025, with a Schools360 score of 84.6% reflecting strong academic outcomes, excellent institutional capability and a well-established learning environment.
2. St Brigid’s College
Location: Lesmurdie
Type: Independent Catholic girls school
Strengths: A leading girls school achieving a Schools360 score of 80.0%, driven by strong student wellbeing, improving academic consistency and stable school leadership.
3. Aquinas College
Location: Salter Point
Type: Independent Catholic boys school
Strengths: A long-established academic performer with a Schools360 score of 79.6%, underpinned by strong teaching quality, governance depth and senior outcomes.
4. Iona Presentation College
Location: Mosman Park
Type: Independent Catholic girls school
Strengths: Delivers balanced performance across learning environment and wellbeing, reflected in a Schools360 score of 79.3%.
5. Mercedes College
Location: Perth
Type: Independent Catholic girls school
Strengths: A well-rounded school with a Schools360 score of 78.8%, combining consistent academic delivery with strong pastoral care and leadership stability.
6. Servite College
Location: Tuart Hill
Type: Independent Catholic boys school
Strengths: Achieves a Schools360 score of 75.4%, supported by a strong community culture and steadily improving senior academic outcomes.
7. St Norbert College
Location: Queens Park
Type: Independent Catholic co-educational school
Strengths: A balanced performer with a Schools360 score of 74.9%, reflecting steady academic results and solid student wellbeing systems.
8. Emmanuel Catholic College
Location: Success
Type: Independent Catholic co-educational school
Strengths: Records a Schools360 score of 74.8%, supported by strong student engagement, modern facilities and broad curriculum pathways.
9. Mater Dei College
Location: Edgewater
Type: Independent Catholic co-educational school
Strengths: An inclusive school with a Schools360 score of 74.5%, performing well across wellbeing, learning environment and institutional stability.
10. Mazenod College
Location: Lesmurdie
Type: Independent Catholic boys school
Strengths: Completes the top ten with a Schools360 score of 73.3%, reflecting consistent academic outcomes and strong pastoral and vocational pathways.
Image credit: Iona Presentation College, Mosman ParkKey Insights
WA Catholic school performance is driven primarily by institutional maturity and academic concentration, rather than school size or breadth of subject offerings.
Boys’ Catholic schools achieve the strongest overall outcomes, led by Trinity College and Aquinas College, reflecting consistently higher academic performance and institutional excellence scores.
High-performing girls’ Catholic schools show strength in wellbeing and learning environment, but typically score slightly lower on senior academic concentration compared to leading boys’ schools.
Co-educational Catholic schools deliver solid, balanced outcomes but rarely match single-sex schools on peak academic or institutional scores.
The strongest Catholic schools sustain performance across multiple cohorts, indicating that leadership stability and teaching continuity are key differentiators.
There is a meaningful performance gap between the top Catholic schools and the remainder of the sector, suggesting that excellence is concentrated rather than evenly distributed.
Snapshot for 2025
WA’s top Catholic schools are led by long-established boys’ schools with strong academic cultures.
Girls’ Catholic schools remain highly competitive, particularly in student wellbeing and learning environment.
Co-educational Catholic schools provide balanced outcomes but sit below single-sex schools at the top end.
Academic and institutional strength matter more than scale or location.
Overall sector performance is stable, with improvement driven by governance and teaching quality rather than short-term cohort effects.
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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Rankings are updated annually, with the current page reflecting the latest 2025 update. Additional refinements may be made when schools provide new information or when verified updates become available.
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Image credit: Mercedes College, Perth