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Top 50 Victoria, Melbourne Primary Schools In Map

First I want to clarify, this set of maps is also based on 2019 data released in 2020 which is the most recent one. NAPLAN was canceled in 2020, so there is no data release in 2021, we will have to wait until 2022 for the next set of data releases.

48 out of 50 top Victorian primary schools are concentrated in Melbourne, with only two exceptions that are in or near Geelong.

Following is where all the top 50 Victoria, Melbourne primary schools, as you can see they are mainly concentrated in Melbourne’s central, eastern and southeastern areas with a splash in the northern suburbs. This is to be expected as traditionally in Australia the top public/government schools are concentrated in the affluent and well-established suburbs. In Melbourne’s case, these types of suburbs tend to be near the city center, also to the east and southeastern side. This matches the locations of the top primary schools extremely well.

Melbourne metro area

Chilwell Primary School ranked 34 and Inverleigh Primary School ranked 45 in 2019. I will not further illustrate these two in the image and maps anymore.

The top 10 for 2019 are all in Melbourne’s northeast to south-eastern suburbs with the exception of Preston West Primary School which is located in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. Please note the top 10 are highlighted in red.

Beverley Hills Primary School
Serpell Primary School
Oakleigh South Primary School
Glendal Primary School
Pinewood Primary School
Canterbury Primary School
Balwyn Primary School
Birralee Primary School
Preston West Primary School
Brandon Park Primary School

The top 11 to 20 for 2019 are also all in Melbourne’s northeast to south-eastern suburbs. Please note the top 11 to 20 are highlighted in blue.

Mount View Primary School
Donburn Primary School
Doncaster Gardens Primary School
Camberwell Primary School
Hampton Primary School
Wheelers Hill Primary School
Laburnum Primary School
Clifton Hill Primary School
Merri Creek Primary School
Burwood East Primary School

The top 21 to 30 for 2019 are all in near central Melbourne, then fan out to northeast to south-eastern suburbs with the exception of Doreen Primary School which is located on the edge of northern Melbourne. Please note the top 21 to 30 are highlighted in green.

Kew East Primary School
Malvern Primary School
Mont Albert Primary School
Doreen Primary School
South Yarra Primary School
Templeton Primary School
Spensley Street Primary School
Camelot Rise Primary School
Kerrimuir Primary School
North Melbourne Primary School

Doreen Public School

The top 31 to 40 for 2019 are all in near central Melbourne, then fan out to northeast to south-eastern suburbs with the exception of Chiwell Primary School which is located in Geelong. Please note the top 31 to 40 are highlighted in purple.

Gardenvale Primary School
Orchard Grove Primary School
Blackburn Lake Primary School
Chilwell Primary School
Glen Waverley Primary School
Mount Waverley Primary School
Mountain Gate Primary School
Hartwell Primary School
Deepdene Primary School
Westgarth Primary School

The top 41 to 50 for 2019 are more evenly distributed around Melbourne suburbs with the exception of Inverleigh Primary School which is located west of Geelong. Please note the top 41 to 50 are highlighted in black.

Strathmore North Primary School
Eltham East Primary School
Glenferrie Primary School
Vermont Primary School
Inverleigh Primary School
Thomastown East Primary School
Hawthorn West Primary School
Auburn South Primary School
Burwood Heights Primary School
Bentleigh West Primary School

In conclusion, as illustrated the top Victorian primary schools are concentrated in central Melbourne and northeastern, eastern, and southeastern part of Melbourne. There is a splatter of top primary schools in the northern suburbs of Melbourne and two near Geelong. The western suburbs got none in 2019.

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Top 50 NSW Sydney Public School In Map

First I want to clarify, this set of map is based on 2019 data released in 2020 which is the most recent one. NAPLAN was canceled in 2020, so there is no data release in 2021, we will have to wait until 2022 for the next set of data releases.

49 out of 50 top NSW primary schools are concentrated in Sydney, with only one exception that is Charlestown South Public School in Newcastle.

Following is where all the top 50 NSW, Sydney primary schools, as you can see as expected they are mainly concentrated to Sydney’s northwest and north shore area with a splash in eastern and inner west suburbs.

The top 10 for 2019 are all in Sydney’s northwest and lower north shore with the exception of Sydney Distance Education Primary School who will be moving into the site of Lindfield Learning Village from next year, so I guess we can just pretend it is part of North Shore as well. Please note the top 10 are highlighted in red.

Matthew Pearce Public School
St Ives North Public School
Hornsby North Public School
Sydney Distance Education Primary School
Artarmon Public school
Beaumont Road Public School
Murray Farm Public School
Pymble Public School
Beecroft Public School
Carlingford West Public School

The top 11 to 20 for 2019 are mostly in Sydney’s northwest and lower north shore as well with the exception of Charlestown South Public School in Newcastle. Please note the top 11 to 20 are highlighted in blue.

Cammeray Public School
Annangrove Public School
Woollahra Public School
Waitara Public School
Epping Public School
North Rocks Public School
Epping West Public School
Lindfield East Public School
Charlestown South Public School
Chatswood Public School

The top 21 to 30 for 2019 are mostly in Sydney’s northwest and lower north shore again, but we start to see two schools Hurstville and Randwick Public School in this range in Sydney’s east and south. Please note the top 21 to 30 are highlighted in green.

Eastwood Public School
Hurstville Public School
Cherrybrook Public School
Warrawee Public School
Lindfield Public School
Roseville Public School
Neutral Bay Public School
Oakhill Drive Public School
Randwick Public School
Gordon West Public School

The top 31 to 40 for 2019 are more evenly spread out and evenly split into the different sides of Sydney harbor. Please note the top 31 to 40 are highlighted in purple.

Balmain Public School
Ermington Public School
Earlwood Public School
Lane Cove Public School
Kent Road Public School
Summer Hill Public School
Bellevue Hill Public School
Oatley West Public School
Epping Heights Public School
Greenwich Public School

The top 41 to 50 for 2019 are more concentrated to the north of the Sydney harbor again with a splash in Sydney’s east and inner west again. Please note the top 41 to 50 are highlighted in black.

Excelsior Public School
Double Bay Public School
Mowbray Public School
Killara Public School
Denistone East Public School
Rainbow Street Public School
Petersham Public School
Northbridge Public School
St Ives Public School
Kellyville Public School

The top NSW, Sydney public school are concentrated in the northwest, north and north shore area of Sydney. This is to be expected and continued the trend when I started doing this from 2015. There are actually more schools located in the Sydney’s east and inner west suburb now, this is very good to see.

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Proposal to Guarantee All Sydney Students Access To A Coed High School

I have come across this article in SMH recently which you can find at All Sydney students to have guaranteed access to a co-ed high school.

Students living in Sydney’s single-sex public high school catchments will have guaranteed access to a nearby coeducational school under a plan being developed by the NSW Department of Education.

Families in the Georges River area were the first to be officially informed of the change. From next year, students zoned for the Penshurst Girls and Hurstville Boys’ campuses of Georges River College can also choose the co-ed Peakhurst campus.

Other catchments will follow once the department finishes the complicated process of assessing student numbers and re-drawing catchments, senior government sources said on the condition of anonymity because the policy has not been finalised.
SMH

The background of this is that boys schools, in general, have a falling attendance and interest and parents are increasingly opting to send their children to coed schools. It is also important to note that the same cannot be said of girls high school, the enrolment numbers tend to be kept strong. Randwick Boys and Girls High School is a prime example of this.

Similar plan had been proposed previously to merge the Randwick Boys and Girls High School together to better utilize the facilities. While it received strong support from the parents of the Randwick Boys High School’s students, it encountered strong resistance from the parents of the Randwick Girls High School, so the plan was eventually shelved.

I think the outcome will be case by case, not every single-sex school has close-by coded schools with available space. Merging them can also encounter strong resistance from some of the parents. So it may work well in some cases and in others can be very difficult. The process will likely drag on for years as well, so do not expect a quick and clean outcome for this plan.

Overall, I am personally in favour of coed schools and support the move as well.

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2021 NSW Selective High School Minimum Entry Score

The 2021 NSW Selective High School minimum entry score has been released recently. You can see them at following.

Ranking	School Name	State	School Sector	Location	Total Enrolment	Percentage
1	James Ruse Agricultural High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	835	100.00%
2	North Sydney Girls High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	909	96.62%
3	Sydney Girls High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	924	96.59%
4	North Sydney Boys High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	915	96.03%
5	Perth Modern School	WA	Government	Major Cities	1418	95.53%
6	Hornsby Girls High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	722	95.32%
7	Baulkham Hills High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1225	95.31%
8	Sydney Boys High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1208	94.83%
9	Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus	NSW	Government	Major Cities	789	94.41%
10	Normanhurst Boys High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	751	93.94%
11	Girraween High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	753	93.74%
12	Fort Street High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	908	93.49%
13	Hurlstone Agricultural High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	957	93.18%
14	St George Girls High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	926	92.82%
15	Penrith High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	917	92.73%
16	Merewether High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1073	92.43%
17	Caringbah High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	914	92.12%
18	Smiths Hill High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	730	92.11%
19	Conservatorium High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	151	91.92%
20	Gosford High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1067	91.38%
21	Sydney Technical High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	921	90.97%
22	Brisbane State High School	QLD	Government	Major Cities	3184	86.84%
23	Shenton College	WA	Government	Major Cities	2215	85.93%
24	Cheltenham Girls High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1371	85.87%
25	Rossmoyne Senior High School	WA	Government	Major Cities	2188	85.87%
26	Parramatta High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	966	85.43%
27	Sefton High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1056	85.06%
28	Willetton Senior High School	WA	Government	Major Cities	2410	85.04%
29	Chatswood High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1575	84.85%
30	Glen Waverley Secondary College	VIC	Government	Major Cities	1928	84.70%
31	John Curtin College Of The Arts	WA	Government	Major Cities	1688	84.63%
32	Cherrybrook Technology High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	2005	84.48%
33	Willoughby Girls High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	962	84.42%
34	Northern Beaches Secondary College Mackellar Girls Campus	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1322	84.30%
35	Ryde Secondary College	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1145	84.20%
36	Box Hill High School	VIC	Government	Major Cities	1338	84.20%
37	Finigan School of Distance Education	NSW	Government	Major Cities	366	84.11%
38	Mansfield State High School	QLD	Government	Major Cities	2801	84.10%
39	Tempe High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	946	84.06%
40	University High School	VIC	Government	Major Cities	1536	84.04%
41	Carlingford High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1260	84.02%
42	Auburn High School	VIC	Government	Major Cities	490	84.00%
43	Sydney Distance Education High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	553	83.93%
44	Applecross Senior High School	WA	Government	Major Cities	1602	83.92%
45	Killara High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1667	83.86%
46	Macquarie Fields High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1133	83.72%
47	Balwyn High School	VIC	Government	Major Cities	2185	83.55%
48	Vermont Secondary College	VIC	Government	Major Cities	1463	83.50%
49	Victorian College Of The Arts Secondary School	VIC	Government	Major Cities	403	83.40%
50	Melbourne Girls College	VIC	Government	Major Cities	1478	83.28%
51	Virtual School Victoria	VIC	Government	Major Cities	3649	83.25%
52	Churchlands Senior High School	WA	Government	Major Cities	2851	83.09%
53	Northern Beaches Secondary College Balgowlah Boys Campus	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1039	83.07%
54	Canterbury Girls Secondary College	VIC	Government	Major Cities	1035	83.04%
55	Killarney Heights High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	892	83.01%
56	Strathfield Girls High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1028	82.97%
57	Lyneham High School	ACT	Government	Major Cities	1104	82.97%
58	Castle Hill High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1801	82.94%
59	Mount Lawley Senior High School	WA	Government	Major Cities	1774	82.94%
60	Mckinnon Secondary College	VIC	Government	Major Cities	2201	82.86%
61	Turramurra High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1207	82.83%
62	St Ives High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1046	82.80%
63	Leeming Senior High School	WA	Government	Major Cities	1088	82.76%
64	Indooroopilly State High School	QLD	Government	Major Cities	2102	82.72%
65	Epping Boys High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1278	82.66%
66	School Of Isolated and Distance Education	WA	Government	Major Cities	409	82.66%
67	Telopea Park School	ACT	Government	Major Cities	1427	82.66%
68	Riverside Girls High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	853	82.60%
69	East Doncaster Secondary College	VIC	Government	Major Cities	1633	82.56%
70	The Gap State High School	QLD	Government	Major Cities	1537	82.53%
71	Viewbank College	VIC	Government	Major Cities	1384	82.51%
72	Cammeraygal High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	635	82.51%
73	Macarthur Girls High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1115	82.44%
74	Northcote High School	VIC	Government	Major Cities	1849	82.41%
75	Pennant Hills High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1020	82.39%
76	Brighton Secondary College	VIC	Government	Major Cities	1233	82.37%
77	Highvale Secondary College	VIC	Government	Major Cities	1003	82.37%
78	Sydney Secondary College Leichhardt Campus	NSW	Government	Major Cities	921	82.32%
79	Cavendish Road State High School	QLD	Government	Major Cities	1799	82.32%
80	Alamanda K-9 College	VIC	Government	Major Cities	2624	82.27%
81	Mentone Girls Secondary College	VIC	Government	Major Cities	1110	82.19%
82	Kelvin Grove State College	QLD	Government	Major Cities	3415	82.17%
83	Newtown High School of Performing Arts	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1066	82.14%
84	Mosman High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1102	82.14%
85	Mount Waverley Secondary College	VIC	Government	Major Cities	1829	82.02%
86	Brisbane School of Distance Education	QLD	Government	Major Cities	3641	82.02%
87	Mount Gravatt State High School	QLD	Government	Major Cities	1185	82.00%
88	Rose Bay Secondary College	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1305	81.93%
89	Alfred Deakin High School	ACT	Government	Major Cities	866	81.91%
90	Burwood Girls High School	NSW	Government	Major Cities	1179	81.81%
91	Williamstown High School	VIC	Government	Major Cities	1527	81.72%
92	Sydney Secondary College Balmain Campus	NSW	Government	Major Cities	803	81.72%
93	Melville Senior High School	WA	Government	Major Cities	1401	81.70%
94	Taroona High School	TAS	Government	Inner Regional	1110	81.65%
95	Lindfield Learning Village	NSW	Government	Major Cities	315	81.65%
96	Duncraig Senior High School	WA	Government	Major Cities	1515	81.63%
97	Christmas Island District High School	WA	Government	Very Remote	245	81.61%
98	Albert Park College	VIC	Government	Major Cities	1375	81.49%
99	Brentwood Secondary College	VIC	Government	Major Cities	1645	81.25%
100	Brunswick Secondary College	VIC	Government	Major Cities	992	81.25%

Please note this is a normalised number not a raw score and it is used for enrolment for 2021 entry. The actual test was done in 2020.

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Lindfield Learning Village Stage 2 Construction

Stage 2 of Lindfield Learning Village is currently in progress with the aim of delivering the following.

Refurbishment of the existing buildings.
Internal fitout works, delivered in phases.
New kiss and drop and bus access.
New covered outdoor learning area (COLA) and additional play space.
Repurposing the existing lecture theatres into new drama and music teaching theatres.
Relocation of Aurora College (NSW Department of Education’s Selective Virtual High School) to Lindfield Learning Village.

This is scheduled to finish and ready for 2022, just in time for the newly defined school catchment to come into effect.

The most common name used by the NSW Department of Education is called “catchment” which refers to those students who reside in a particular area are guaranteed a position in specific schools. When discussed from the perspective of a particular school is often referred to as one of the following terms.

School Zone
School intake area
School catchment

As usual contact the school in question or the Department of Education for the final confirmation.

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2021 NAPLAN

NAPLAN was cancelled for 2020 and it is back on this year. This year it will be divided into online and paper version. 2021 is also the last year that paper based test will be carried out.

2021 NAPLAN online version of the test will happen between 11–21 May.

2021 NAPLAN written version of the test will happen between 11–13 May.

I personally cannot wait for the new data to become available. Unfortunately, I will probably have to wait until early 2022 to get my hands on the 2021 data.

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2021 ACT, Canberra College Year 11 to 12 Priority Enrolment Area Map Update

Same as the high school level change, there is actually only one change that I find by comparing the most up to date data. The suburb Strathnairn is officially included in the priority enrolment area of Hawker College.

“Priority Enrolment Area” which is what a particular address is zoned for the particular school. When discussed from the perspective of a particular school is often referred to as one of the following terms.

School Zone
School intake area
School catchment
Priority Intake Area

As usual contact the school in question or the Department of Education for the final confirmation and you can also access the full ACT Public School Priority Enrolment Area (Catchment) Map by following this link.

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2021 ACT, Canberra High School Year 7 to 10 Priority Enrolment Area Map Update

There is actually one changes that I find by comparing the most up to date data. The suburb Strathnairn is officially included in the priority enrolment area of Kingsford Smith School.

School Zone
School intake area
School catchment
Priority Intake Area

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2021 ACT, Canberra Priority Enrolment Area For Primary Schools

Not a huge amount of changes to the enrolment area since the last update. The main change is the establishment of the Denman Prospect Primary School.

2021 ACT, Canberra Priority Enrolment Area For Primary Schools

School Zone
School intake area
School catchment
Priority Intake Area

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2021 Northern Territory, Darwin Secondary School (Senior) Priority Enrolment Area Map

This map covers the senior level of secondary school around the Northern Territory, Darwin area only.

2021 Northern Territory, Darwin Secondary School (Senior) Priority Enrolment Area Map

The most common name used by the Northern Territory Department of Education is called “Priority Enrolment Area” which refer to those students who reside in a particular area who are guaranteed a position in specific schools. When discussed from the perspective of a particular school is often referred to as one of the following terms.

School Zone
School intake area
School catchment

As usual contact the school in question for the final confirmation.

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