What are the best public high schools with high ATARs in Melbourne (co-ed or girls only)?

School League Tables.

Mpf. They’re not all they’re cracked up to be. Is the point of education to get you into a top ranking uni course? Or to make a decent citizen of you?

At any rate, the current rankings for Victoria are out at:

VCE School Ranking – 2016

If we exclude boys’ schools, then that nukes my own alma mater, Melbourne High School, as well as Yeshivah College. That alone earns you my undying resentment.

The top ten this year are:

1. Bialik College. Jewish, Co-ed.
2. MacRobertson Girls’ High. Selective Public, Girls’. (Sister school to Melbourne High)
3. Mount Scopus. Jewish, Co-ed.
4. (Yeshivah, Jewish, Boys: nuked.)
5. (Melbourne High, Selective Public, Boys: nuked.)
6. Loreto Mandeville Hall. Catholic, Girls’. (Btw, the denomination doesn’t mean that much for Christian schools: my Greek Orthodox third cousin went there.)
7. Shelford Girls’ Grammar. Anglican, Girls’.
8. Ruyton Girls’ School. Non-denominational Private, Girls’.
9. Ballarat Clarendon College. Uniting Church, Co-ed. (Not in Melbourne)
10. Haileybury Girls’ College. Anglican, Girls’.

The traditionally prestige Boys’ schools are actually a long way down the list: Scotch College is #28, Melbourne Grammar is #33.

The top government co-ed school is Nossal High at #34, but it is selective like Melbourne High. The top government normal neighbourhood school is Balwyn High, at #41.

And yes, girls’ are outperforming boys’ schools. To a far greater extent than I’d anticipated.