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 "dataset": "Victorian government school performance",
 "source": "Annual Report to the School Community for each Victorian government school (the Performance Summary is generated by the Victorian Department of Education), served per school number by the VRQA State Register; school register from the Department of Education's School Locations on DataVic",
 "licence_note": "School Locations is published by the Victorian Department of Education on DataVic under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. The Performance Summary measures are reproduced from each school's Annual Report to the School Community, published by the school and the Department of Education through the VRQA State Register, with the school number, report year and source document recorded on every record. Figures are the Department's own published values and are not recalculated here, beyond the stated averages of a school's gap to its Similar Schools group. A school's results reflect its students and circumstances; this is reference data, not advice about where to enrol a child.",
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  "sector": "Government",
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  "status": "O",
  "suburb": "Rowville",
  "postcode": "3178",
  "state": "VIC",
  "address": "17 Paratea Drive",
  "phone": "03 9755 4555",
  "region": "North-Eastern Victoria",
  "area": "Outer Eastern Melbourne",
  "lga": "Knox (C)",
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  "focus": "The Rowville Sports Academy (RSA), also at the Eastern Campus, is a full-time integrated academic and sporting program for students who love Football (Soccer), Basketball, Golf, Australian Rules Football, Volleyball, Tennis, Cricket and Netball.",
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