VCE Music Inquiry: Victorian government schools with the most 40+ study scores
123 study scores of 40 or above published statewide in Music Inquiry over 2020 to 2025; a further 6 withheld by students who did not consent (counted for 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025); 10 Premier's VCE Study Awards, 6 of them to government schools; 16 government schools listed as offering it, 21 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/music-inquiry.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.
21 schools ranked, most published study scores of 40 or above first, over every year shown. 8 more listed below them.
| # | School | 40+ 2020–2025 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | Strength | Per 100 VCE students | Premier's awards | Offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victorian College Of The Arts Secondary SchoolSouthbank, Melbourne (C) | 42 | · | · | · | 17 | 11 | 14 | 111.0× | 9.9 | 3 | not listed |
| 2 | Melbourne High SchoolSouth Yarra, Stonnington (C) | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | · | 1 | 1 | 2.8× | 0.3 | 1 | yes |
| 3 | Virtual School VictoriaThornbury, Darebin (C) | 6 | · | · | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11.2× | 0.2 | · | yes |
| 4 | University High SchoolParkville, Melbourne (C) | 6 | · | 2 | 4 | · | · | · | 6.5× | 0.6 | · | not listed |
| 5 | Bendigo Senior Secondary CollegeBendigo, Greater Bendigo (C) | 4 | 2 | · | · | 1 | · | 1 | 13.0× | 0.1 | 1 | yes |
| 6 | Williamstown High SchoolWilliamstown, Hobsons Bay (C) | 3 | · | · | · | 1 | 2 | · | 5.4× | 0.3 | · | not listed |
| 7 | Balwyn High SchoolBalwyn North, Boroondara (C) | 3 | · | · | · | · | 1 | 2 | 2.0× | — | 1 | not listed |
| 8 | Copperfield CollegeDelahey, Brimbank (C) | 2 | · | · | · | · | 2 | · | — | — | · | not listed |
| 9 | Blackburn High SchoolBlackburn, Whitehorse (C) | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 | — | — | · | yes |
| 10 | Cheltenham Secondary CollegeCheltenham, Kingston (C) | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 | — | — | · | not listed |
| 11 | Geelong High SchoolEast Geelong, Greater Geelong (C) | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 | — | — | · | not listed |
| 12 | Grovedale CollegeGrovedale, Greater Geelong (C) | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 | — | — | · | not listed |
| 13 | Lakeview Senior CollegeCaroline Springs, Melton (C) | 1 | · | · | · | 1 | · | · | — | 0.2 | · | not listed |
| 14 | Mansfield Secondary CollegeMansfield, Mansfield (S) | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | · | · | — | 0.9 | · | not listed |
| 15 | Melba Secondary CollegeCroydon, Maroondah (C) | 1 | · | · | · | · | 1 | · | — | — | · | not listed |
| 16 | Northern College of the Arts and TechnologyPreston, Darebin (C) | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | — | 0.4 | · | yes |
| 17 | Preston High SchoolPreston, Darebin (C) | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | · | · | — | 0.5 | · | yes |
| 18 | Princes Hill Secondary CollegePrinces Hill, Yarra (C) | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | — | 0.5 | · | not listed |
| 19 | Rowville Secondary CollegeRowville, Knox (C) | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 | — | — | · | not listed |
| 20 | Swinburne Senior Secondary CollegeHawthorn, Boroondara (C) | 1 | · | · | · | · | 1 | · | — | — | · | yes |
| 21 | Wantirna CollegeWantirna, Knox (C) | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | · | · | — | 0.3 | · | yes |
| 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 |
| — | Balmoral K-12 Community CollegeBalmoral, Southern Grampians (S) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
| — | Brunswick Secondary CollegeBrunswick, Merri-bek (C) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
| — | Castlemaine Secondary CollegeCastlemaine, Mount Alexander (S) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
| — | Corryong CollegeCorryong, Towong (S) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
| — | Wodonga Senior Secondary CollegeWodonga, Wodonga (C) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
| — | Yarram Secondary CollegeYarram, Wellington (S) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
| — | Yea High SchoolYea, Murrindindi (S) | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | — | — | · | yes |
Catholic, independent and other providers
18 schools outside the government sector published a study score of 40 or above or won a Premier's VCE Study Award in Music Inquiry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haileybury CollegeKeysborough | Independent | 7 | · | · | · | 2 | 1 | 4 | · |
| St Leonard's CollegeBrighton East | Independent | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | · | · | 2 | 3 |
| Our Lady of Mercy CollegeHeidelberg | Catholic | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | · | · | · | · |
| Overnewton Anglican Community CollegeKeilor | Other | 2 | 2 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 |
| Christian College GeelongWaurn Ponds | Independent | 2 | · | · | · | 2 | · | · | · |
| Christian College Institute of Senior EducationWaurn Ponds | Other | 2 | · | · | · | · | 2 | · | · |
| Haileybury Girls CollegeKeysborough | Independent | 2 | · | · | · | 1 | 1 | · | · |
| Alphington Grammar School | Independent | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Chairo Christian SchoolNar Nar Goon | Other | 1 | · | · | · | 1 | · | · | · |
| Firbank Grammar SchoolBrighton | Independent | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 | · |
| Girton Grammar SchoolBendigo | Independent | 1 | · | · | · | · | 1 | · | · |
| Kardinia International CollegeBell Post Hill | Independent | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | · | · | · |
| Korowa Anglican Girls' SchoolGlen Iris | Independent | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | · | · | · |
| Maranatha Christian SchoolEndeavour Hills | Independent | 1 | · | · | · | · | 1 | · | · |
| Mentone Girls' Grammar School | Independent | 1 | · | · | 1 | · | · | · | · |
| The Geelong CollegeNewtown | Independent | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 | · |
| The Knox SchoolWantirna South | Independent | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 | · |
| Woodleigh SchoolLangwarrin South | Independent | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 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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