Best Private Girls Schools in Melbourne | 2025 Rankings & Insights
Melbourne’s private girls schools have a long tradition of academic excellence, strong pastoral care and broad opportunities across sport, arts and music. Schools360’s 2025 Girls Schools Rankings provide an independent, data-driven assessment of how these schools perform across academic outcomes, student wellbeing, learning environment, program depth and long-term institutional capability.
Use the table below to explore the leaders in Melbourne’s private girls education for 2025.
Updated January 2025 · Independent analysis by Schools360
2025 Rankings | Melbourne Private Girls Schools
This table shows the full list of private girls schools in Melbourne for 2025.
Top 10 Girls Schools in Melbourne (2025)
Image credit: Lauriston Girls’ School Armadale
1. Lauriston Girls’ School
Location: Armadale
Type: Independent girls school
Strengths: Exceptional balance across all building blocks, with standout Academic Excellence (95%), Learning Programs (92%), Student Wellbeing (92%) and Institutional Excellence (93%). One of Melbourne’s strongest all-round performers with outstanding program depth.
2. Melbourne Girls’ Grammar School (MGGS)
Location: South Yarra
Type: Independent Anglican girls school
Strengths: Strong academic profile (90%) with excellent Wellbeing (93%), Learning Environment (92%) and Institutional Excellence (93%). A well-established school offering high performance across all developmental areas.
3. St Catherine’s School
Location: Toorak
Type: Independent girls school
Strengths: Outstanding Academic Excellence (95%) and strong results across wellbeing and environment. Broad program offering, strong leadership development and a supportive learning culture.
4. Camberwell Girls Grammar School
Location: Canterbury
Type: Independent Anglican girls school
Strengths: Strong Academic Excellence (95%), excellent Institutional Excellence (92%), and balanced wellbeing and learning environment. A consistent, high-performing girls school.
5. Ruyton Girls’ School
Location: Kew
Type: Independent girls school
Strengths: Excellent Academic Excellence (95%), strong wellbeing (90%) and robust learning programs. Well-regarded for student leadership, ambition and supportive culture.
6. Loreto Mandeville Hall
Location: Toorak
Type: Independent Catholic girls school
Strengths: Strong academic culture (93%), excellent wellbeing (92%) and institutional capability (92%). A values-based school with balanced strengths.
7. Strathcona Baptist Girls’ Grammar
Location: Canterbury
Type: Independent Baptist girls school
Strengths: Exceptional Academic Excellence (97%)—one of the highest in the category—with strong wellbeing (90%) and program breadth. A high-performing school with academic depth and community-focused culture.
8. Methodist Ladies’ College (MLC)
Location: Kew
Type: Independent girls school
Strengths: Well-balanced performance across all five building blocks, with strong Academic Excellence (90%), Learning Programs (90%) and broad student opportunities across sport, arts and music.
9. Presbyterian Ladies’ College (PLC)
Location: Burwood
Type: Independent Presbyterian girls school
Strengths: Outstanding Academic Excellence (98%), one of the top academic scores in VIC, supported by strong wellbeing (88%) and program depth. A high-expectation school with a long-standing academic reputation.
10. Korowa Anglican Girls’ School
Location: Glen Iris
Type: Independent Anglican girls school
Strengths: Excellent Academic Excellence (95%), strong wellbeing and a supportive learning environment. Known for personalised learning and strong co-curricular offerings..
Key Insights
The top girls schools in Melbourne demonstrate some of the strongest overall performance profiles in the state, with several schools showing exceptional balance across all five Schools360 building blocks. Academic strength is notably high across the category, with multiple schools achieving Academic Excellence scores above 93%.
Academic Excellence is the most powerful differentiator. PLC (98%), Strathcona (97%), Lauriston (95%), Camberwell Girls Grammar (95%) and Korowa (95%) form a clear academic top tier. These schools combine strong senior pathways with robust support structures and elevated student expectations.
Learning Environment is consistently strong across the top girls schools, with many scoring above 90%. This reflects excellent teaching quality, innovative teaching approaches, and impressive facilities.
Learning Programs show particular depth in high-performing schools. Lauriston, MGGS, CGGS, MLC and Strathcona offer extensive opportunities in sport, arts, music, STEM and leadership development, contributing to well-rounded student outcomes.
Student Wellbeing scores are strong across the board, with many schools achieving 90% or above. This indicates strong pastoral systems, a positive school culture and environments that support student belonging and development.
Institutional Excellence is consistently high, demonstrating sound governance practices and leadership capability across most of the top girls schools. Schools such as Lauriston, MGGS and Loreto Mandeville Hall stand out for strong organisational capability.
Overall, the top-performing girls schools demonstrate a combination of academic strength, supportive wellbeing culture and broad program depth, with consistently high results across all five building blocks.
Snapshot for 2025
Academic performance is exceptionally strong, with several girls schools scoring 95%+ in Academic Excellence.
Learning Environment scores are consistently high, demonstrating stable classrooms, strong engagement and quality facilities.
Program breadth is a major strength with girls schools offering extensive opportunities across sport, arts, music, STEM and leadership.
Wellbeing performance is uniformly strong, with many schools above 90%, reflecting well-developed pastoral care and student support systems.
Institutional Excellence is solid across the category, ranging from 82% to 93%, indicating strong governance and school leadership.
The top performers cluster in Melbourne’s inner and eastern suburbs, forming one of the strongest schooling regions in Australia.
Frequently Asked Questions
These questions help explain how Schools360 evaluates and updates private school rankings across Australia.
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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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Yes. Each school’s profile includes an option for corrections or feedback. Schools360 reviews all submissions and updates school profiles when verified changes are received.
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