jumpinjack

Hi we're new to the website and thinking about migrating to Melbourne. Does anyone know how to find the school league tables results for Melbourne schools ?

Vash the Stampede

I think you'll find that we have no equivalent to the British "league tables."

jumpinjack

There are league tables vash as I located them for Perth last year, obviously slightly different for the UK but basically the same information.

Bordy

Have you checked on the Britvics site JJ ?

http://s7.invisionfree.com/BritVics/index.php?act=idx

jumpinjack

Cheers Bordy - i'm new to this so I will check it out

NickyC

There are DEFINITELY no school league tables for NSW.

The press put together their own list from HSC data (final year exam results) that are in the public domain, but they are limited and in no way officially-sanctioned.

Bordy

Good onya, were all here to help.


Well, nost of us.

ohippy

Can you tell me where to find them for WA as I've never been able to find any. Cheers

jumpinjack

Try e-mailing the West Australian or the Sunday Times as they publish the results every year around Jan or Feb. The e-mailed a back copy to me at the time.

ohippy

Thanks for info - will do that - karma sent

OzTennis

I think you'll find we do:

http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/stati...choolstats.pdf

They aren't league tables as such because they are VCE results for all secondary schools in alphabetical order rather than order of performance but it is easy to see which schools get 'better' results than others. They are also state wide, albeit that a high proportion of the state's schools are in the metropolitan area.

I'll let you into a big secret but don't tell anyone else. There is a strong correlation between a suburb's property values and the performance of its secondary school(s). The 'best' schools tend to be found in the 'best' neighbourhoods as a rough rule of thumb.

OzTennis

P.S. the Federal Government is pushing through a requirement for the states to rank each pupil against their classmates in school reports (i.e. a league table for pupils, your son or daughter is 27th in a class of 32 etc). NSW and some other states have accepted this, Victoria is resisting strongly.

Vash the Stampede

Hmm, interesting. I stand corrected.

Thanks for the link.

jumpinjack

OZTENNIS YOU ARE A GENIUS !! Currently printing off file as we speak. I know what you mean about good suburbs good schools but as I know nothing about the suburbs this will help me narrow the search for the "good"suburbs.
Many many thanks.

OzTennis

Another thing that might be of interest:

http://www.theage.com.au/ed_docs/indicatordata2.pdf

The Age newspaper recently had a series of articles on Liveability Melbourne. This was a suburb by suburb study (pretty subjective) of liveability they commissioned. They had another article ranking 150 Melbourne suburbs from first to last. I can't find a link to the article but I printed it out and could post it if requested!

OzTennis

woodyinoz

oh I hope not. I hate the way that parents behaved in England with the my kids better than yours attitude. Luckily my girls are fairly bright but I hate them getting too big for their boots.