Elite private schools for Academic Excellence in Victoria
24 schools reached Elite for Academic Excellence.
Image: Melbourne Grammar School
24 of 143 Victorian schools assessed by Schools360 reached Elite for Academic Excellence — the highest tier on Schools360, reflecting exceptional overall performance. There is no partial credit: reaching Elite tier on this building block is itself the claim.
What Academic Excellence measures
How well does the school perform academically? Schools360 assesses this across three factors. Academic Performance Years 7 to 10: Current and previous years NAPLAN test scores assessing academic proficiency for students in years 7 to 10. Academic Performance Years 11 and 12: Measures of academic achievement, including median ATAR scores and VCE, HSC or equivalent results. University Outcomes and Pathways: Evaluates students' progress, entry into top-tier universities, postgraduate study, and alumni success.
How schools are assessed
Every school is scored across five building blocks using the Schools360 framework. Read the full methodology.
Elite for Academic Excellence (24)
Select schools to compare them side by side.
| School | Suburb | Gender | Academic Excellence score | S360 score | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Melbourne Grammar School | Melbourne | Boys | 98.3% | 92.9% | |
 Presbyterian Ladies' College | Burwood | Girls | 98.3% | 88.2% | |
 Strathcona Baptist Girls' Grammar | Canterbury | Girls | 96.7% | 89.2% | |
 Lauriston Girls' School | Armadale | Girls | 95.0% | 92.8% | |
 St Catherine's School | Toorak | Girls | 95.0% | 91.0% | |
 Camberwell Girls Grammar School | Canterbury | Girls | 95.0% | 89.9% | |
 Ruyton Girls' School | Kew | Girls | 95.0% | 89.8% | |
 Korowa Anglican Girls' School | Glen Iris | Girls | 95.0% | 88.0% | |
 Fintona Girls' School | Balwyn | Girls | 95.0% | 82.2% | |
 Camberwell Grammar School | Canterbury | Boys | 93.3% | 90.9% | |
 Haileybury | Keysborough | Co-ed | 93.3% | 90.8% | |
 Bialik College | Hawthorn | Co-ed | 93.3% | 89.7% | |
 Loreto Mandeville Hall | Toorak | Girls | 93.3% | 89.5% | |
 Trinity Grammar School | Kew | Boys | 93.3% | 87.5% | |
 Sacre Coeur | Glen Iris | Girls | 91.7% | 81.6% | |
 Scotch College | Hawthorn | Boys | 90.0% | 93.0% | |
 Melbourne Girls' Grammar School | South Yarra | Girls | 90.0% | 92.1% | |
 St Leonard's College | Brighton East | Co-ed | 90.0% | 91.4% | |
 Methodist Ladies' College | Kew | Girls | 90.0% | 88.4% | |
 Carey Baptist Grammar School | Kew | Co-ed | 88.3% | 89.8% | |
 Wesley College | Melbourne | Co-ed | 88.3% | 89.5% | |
 Yarra Valley Grammar | Ringwood | Co-ed | 88.3% | 88.6% | |
 St Michael's Grammar School | St Kilda | Co-ed | 88.3% | 88.5% | |
 Ballarat Clarendon College | Ballarat | Co-ed | 88.3% | 78.2% |
- Elite for Academic Excellence, Victoria
- School
- Melbourne Grammar School
- Suburb
- Melbourne
- Gender
- Boys
- Academic Excellence score
- 98.3%
- S360 score
- 92.9%
- Compare
- Suburb
- Burwood
- Gender
- Girls
- Academic Excellence score
- 98.3%
- S360 score
- 88.2%
- Compare
- Suburb
- Canterbury
- Gender
- Girls
- Academic Excellence score
- 96.7%
- S360 score
- 89.2%
- Compare
- School
- Lauriston Girls' School
- Suburb
- Armadale
- Gender
- Girls
- Academic Excellence score
- 95.0%
- S360 score
- 92.8%
- Compare
- School
- St Catherine's School
- Suburb
- Toorak
- Gender
- Girls
- Academic Excellence score
- 95.0%
- S360 score
- 91.0%
- Compare
- Suburb
- Canterbury
- Gender
- Girls
- Academic Excellence score
- 95.0%
- S360 score
- 89.9%
- Compare
- School
- Ruyton Girls' School
- Suburb
- Kew
- Gender
- Girls
- Academic Excellence score
- 95.0%
- S360 score
- 89.8%
- Compare
- Suburb
- Glen Iris
- Gender
- Girls
- Academic Excellence score
- 95.0%
- S360 score
- 88.0%
- Compare
- School
- Fintona Girls' School
- Suburb
- Balwyn
- Gender
- Girls
- Academic Excellence score
- 95.0%
- S360 score
- 82.2%
- Compare
- Suburb
- Canterbury
- Gender
- Boys
- Academic Excellence score
- 93.3%
- S360 score
- 90.9%
- Compare
- School
- Haileybury
- Suburb
- Keysborough
- Gender
- Co-ed
- Academic Excellence score
- 93.3%
- S360 score
- 90.8%
- Compare
- School
- Bialik College
- Suburb
- Hawthorn
- Gender
- Co-ed
- Academic Excellence score
- 93.3%
- S360 score
- 89.7%
- Compare
- School
- Loreto Mandeville Hall
- Suburb
- Toorak
- Gender
- Girls
- Academic Excellence score
- 93.3%
- S360 score
- 89.5%
- Compare
- School
- Trinity Grammar School
- Suburb
- Kew
- Gender
- Boys
- Academic Excellence score
- 93.3%
- S360 score
- 87.5%
- Compare
- School
- Sacre Coeur
- Suburb
- Glen Iris
- Gender
- Girls
- Academic Excellence score
- 91.7%
- S360 score
- 81.6%
- Compare
- School
- Scotch College
- Suburb
- Hawthorn
- Gender
- Boys
- Academic Excellence score
- 90.0%
- S360 score
- 93.0%
- Compare
- Suburb
- South Yarra
- Gender
- Girls
- Academic Excellence score
- 90.0%
- S360 score
- 92.1%
- Compare
- School
- St Leonard's College
- Suburb
- Brighton East
- Gender
- Co-ed
- Academic Excellence score
- 90.0%
- S360 score
- 91.4%
- Compare
- Suburb
- Kew
- Gender
- Girls
- Academic Excellence score
- 90.0%
- S360 score
- 88.4%
- Compare
- Suburb
- Kew
- Gender
- Co-ed
- Academic Excellence score
- 88.3%
- S360 score
- 89.8%
- Compare
- School
- Wesley College
- Suburb
- Melbourne
- Gender
- Co-ed
- Academic Excellence score
- 88.3%
- S360 score
- 89.5%
- Compare
- School
- Yarra Valley Grammar
- Suburb
- Ringwood
- Gender
- Co-ed
- Academic Excellence score
- 88.3%
- S360 score
- 88.6%
- Compare
- Suburb
- St Kilda
- Gender
- Co-ed
- Academic Excellence score
- 88.3%
- S360 score
- 88.5%
- Compare
- Suburb
- Ballarat
- Gender
- Co-ed
- Academic Excellence score
- 88.3%
- S360 score
- 78.2%
- Compare
What the Victoria pattern shows
Victorian schools show a higher median Academic Excellence score than the national picture, at 75 percent against 71.7 percent nationally.
Girls' schools are over-represented among qualifiers relative to their overall share, making up 50 percent of this list against 24.5 percent of assessed schools.
Three schools on this list are Elite for Academic Excellence while sitting just below Elite overall: Fintona Girls' School, Sacre Coeur and Ballarat Clarendon College.
Four qualifying schools are in Kew, the strongest single concentration on this list.
Only one qualifying school, Ballarat Clarendon College, sits outside metropolitan Melbourne.
Elite tier: the highest tier on Schools360, reflecting exceptional overall performance
Image: Strathcona Baptist Girls' Grammar
Related
Every Elite Schools page uses the same independent, evidence-based assessment — explore what it takes to reach Elite on every other building block.
Common questions
How many schools reached Elite for Academic Excellence?
24 of 143 assessed Victorian schools reached the Elite tier for Academic Excellence, 16.8 percent.
What does it take to reach Elite?
A building block score of 87.5 percent or above on Schools360. There is no partial credit and no top-N fallback: appearing on this list is the claim.
Why do some building blocks not have a page for every state?
A state page is only published once at least 8 schools in that state clear Elite for the building block. Fewer than that reads as thin to a parent and arbitrary to the schools left off, so Victoria and New South Wales are the only state pages at launch.
How is the Academic Excellence score calculated?
Each building block is the average of three factors, each scored out of 20 from four assessed elements. See the methodology page for the full weighting and data sources.
Is this the same as the national Academic Excellence list?
No. This page shows only Victorian schools that reached Elite. The national page carries the full list for Australia and the methodology deep dive.