VCE Extended Investigation: Victorian government schools with the most 40+ study scores
106 study scores of 40 or above published statewide in Extended Investigation over 2020 to 2025; a further 22 withheld by students who did not consent (counted for 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025); 12 Premier's VCE Study Awards, 5 of them to government schools; 20 government schools listed as offering it, 12 with a published 40+ score. Rebuilt 5 November 2026.
How this table is ordered. Schools with any published study score of 40 or above in this subject come first, most scores first and ties broken by the strength ratio; the schools VCAA lists as offering the subject but with no published score in these years follow, alphabetically. The menu offers the other orders; this page's HTML lists the default. Every figure here is in subjects/extended-investigation.json, and questions.json says what to ask a reader first.
The pooled count of study scores of 40 and over that VCAA published for this subject at this school. A larger school, or one where many students take the subject, has more chances at it.
12 schools ranked, most published study scores of 40 or above first, over every year shown. 11 more listed below them.
| # | School | 40+ 2020–2025 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | Strength | Per 100 VCE students | Premier's awards | Offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University High SchoolParkville, Melbourne (C) | 24 | 1 | · | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 30.2× | 0.4 | 1 | yes |
| 2 | Fitzroy High SchoolFitzroy North, Yarra (C) | 10 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | · | 1 | 129.1× | — | · | yes |
| 3 | Virtual School VictoriaThornbury, Darebin (C) | 9 | 1 | · | 1 | 5 | · | 2 | 19.5× | 0.4 | 1 | yes |
| 4 | Melbourne High SchoolSouth Yarra, Stonnington (C) | 9 | 1 | 5 | · | 1 | · | 2 | 3.6× | 0.3 | · | yes |
| 5 | Victoria University Secondary CollegeCairnlea, Brimbank (C) | 7 | · | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | · | 76.8× | 0.8 | 2 | yes |
| 6 | MacRobertson Girls High SchoolMelbourne, Port Phillip (C) | 6 | 3 | 3 | · | · | · | · | 3.3× | 0.5 | · | yes |
| 7 | Centre for Higher Education StudiesSouth Yarra, Stonnington (C) | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | 274.4× | — | · | yes |
| 8 | East Doncaster Secondary CollegeDoncaster East, Manningham (C) | 5 | · | · | 5 | · | · | · | 5.8× | 1.3 | · | not listed |
| 9 | John Monash Science SchoolClayton, Monash (C) | 3 | · | · | · | 2 | · | 1 | 2.6× | 0.5 | · | yes |
| 10 | Eltham High SchoolEltham, Nillumbik (S) | 2 | 2 | · | · | · | · | · | — | 0.6 | · | yes |
| 11 | Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary CollegeGeelong, Greater Geelong (C) | 2 | · | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | — | 1.1 | 1 | not listed |
| 12 | St Arnaud Secondary CollegeSt Arnaud, Northern Grampians (S) | 1 | · | · | 1 | · | · | · | — | 4.5 | · | not listed |
| Offers the subject at Units 3 and 4, or did, but published no study score of 40 or above in these years | ||||||||||||
| — | Bacchus Marsh CollegeBacchus Marsh, Moorabool (S) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
| — | Bright P-12 CollegeBright, Alpine (S) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
| — | Emerald Secondary CollegeEmerald, Cardinia (S) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
| — | Gisborne Secondary CollegeGisborne, Macedon Ranges (S) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
| — | Kurnai CollegeMorwell, Latrobe (C) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
| — | Mount Eliza Secondary CollegeMount Eliza, Mornington Peninsula (S) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
| — | Oberon High SchoolArmstrong Creek, Greater Geelong (C) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
| — | Point Cook Senior Secondary CollegePoint Cook, Wyndham (C) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
| — | Stawell Secondary CollegeStawell, Northern Grampians (S) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
| — | Thornbury High SchoolThornbury, Darebin (C) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
| — | Wangaratta High SchoolWangaratta, Wangaratta (RC) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
Catholic, independent and other providers
13 schools outside the government sector published a study score of 40 or above or won a Premier's VCE Study Award in Extended Investigation in these years. They are not on this site, which covers government schools only, and are listed here so the government table can be read against the whole state. Same source, same consent rule.
| School | Sector | 40+ | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | Premier's awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camberwell Anglican Girls Grammar SchoolCanterbury | Independent | 4 | · | 3 | 1 | · | · | · | 1 |
| Catholic College Sale | Catholic | 4 | · | · | · | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Beaconhills College - Berwick | Independent | 3 | · | · | 1 | · | · | 2 | 1 |
| Ruyton Girls' SchoolKew | Independent | 3 | 1 | 2 | · | · | · | · | 1 |
| Girton Grammar SchoolBendigo | Independent | 2 | · | · | · | 1 | 1 | · | 1 |
| Xavier CollegeKew | Catholic | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 |
| Ballarat Clarendon College | Independent | 1 | · | · | · | 1 | · | · | · |
| Caulfield Grammar SchoolSt Kilda East | Independent | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | · | · | · |
| Haileybury CollegeKeysborough | Independent | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 | · |
| Haileybury Girls CollegeKeysborough | Independent | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 | · |
| Tintern GrammarRingwood East | Independent | 1 | · | · | · | 1 | · | · | · |
| Woodleigh SchoolLangwarrin South | Independent | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 | · |
| Camberwell Girls Grammar School | Other | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | 1 |
How to read this
A VCE study score is scaled so that the state mean in each study is 30; a score of 40 or above puts a student in roughly the top 9% of the state in that study. VCAA publishes the name and school of every student who scores 40 or more and consents to publication; these tables count those published scores.
- Counts are study scores of 40 or above published by VCAA for 2020-2025, pooled. Only students who consented to publication appear, so every school count is a lower bound: across the years VCAA states the withheld number (2021, 2023, 2024, 2025), 13% of all scores of 40 or above were withheld, and the share differs from school to school. State totals include the withheld scores.
- VCAA does not publish how many students each school enters in a study, so there is no per-subject pass rate. per_100_vce_students divides the pooled count by the school's VCE cohort over the same years, which favours a school where many students take the subject. strength_ratio is the count divided by what the school's overall count of scores of 40 or above would predict given the subject's share statewide: above 1 the subject is a relative strength of the school; it is withheld below 3 scores, observed or expected.
- A school's campuses are merged. Only government schools are ranked; other_sectors lists the Catholic, independent and other providers on the roll for this study by name and count, with no page on this site. Whether a school offers the study comes from VCAA's School Studies Search at the time of the build.
- Selective-entry schools and the Victorian School of Languages, which teaches a language to students enrolled anywhere, lead most raw counts.
- premiers_awards counts the Premier's VCE Study Awards the school's students won in the study, 2020-2025, from the honour roll on vic.gov.au (earlier years from the Internet Archive's copies of that page). An award needs a study score of 46 or above and goes to the best few students in the study statewide, so it marks the very top of the subject; a handful are given in each study a year. Student names are not published here.
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