Use the information below to help interpret the data published in the yearly Post Compulsory Completion and Achievement section.
Name of school (and campus, where reported separately).
Institutions that provide training and/or education at the senior secondary level. They include Registered Training Organisations (RTOs), Technical and Further Education (TAFE) and Adult and Community Education (ACE) providers.
A small school is one with 20 or fewer students enrolled in at least one VCE unit at level 3/4. Much care is required in interpreting their results as the overall results might be significantly affected by those of one or two students.
This is provided because sometimes the location of the school is not obvious from its name.
The figure provided is the number of studies offered by the school. In some cases a school will put in place arrangements to allow their students to access studies not currently offered at their school. Therefore the number of studies available to students may be greater than these figures indicate. Details of such arrangements can be obtained from individual schools.
This reflects the range of choices available to students wishing to pursue studies in Vocational Education and Training (VET) within their VCE or VCAL programs. VET programs may be undertaken within the school or outside the school.
The International Baccalaureate (Diploma) is an international senior secondary qualification. Students who undertake the IB Diploma are awarded an equivalent ATAR and are considered for tertiary selection in Victoria on a similar basis to VCE students. IB results are released in January.
This figure reflects the size of the cohort undertaking studies at the highest level of VCE (units 3 and 4). It does not necessarily correspond to the size of the Year 12 enrolment in the school. Level 3/4 studies are designed to be undertaken in Year 12. However, the VCE provides flexibility that allows students to undertake some studies at this level before they reach Year 12.
This figure describes the number of students who have included at least one VET certificate (or a part thereof) in their VCE or VCAL program.
The number of students enrolled in the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning.
This figure is calculated from the number of students who made a timely application for a tertiary course through VTAC, taken as a percentage of all those students eligible to do so.
Of those students eligible to complete the VCE, the percentage who did so.
Of those VET units of competence enrolled, the percentage completed.
Of those VCAL units enrolled, the percentage completed.
VCE results are recorded in terms of study scores. Achievement is assessed on a scale of 0 to 50 and in all studies the average study score across the state is 30. The median study score is the middle score when all the study scores obtained by students of the school are ranked from highest to lowest; so it represents a ‘typical’ level of achievement in the school.
A study score of 40 or above in any study represents exceptional performance (among the top eight per cent in the state). The percentage of such scores is an indication of the proportion of high achievers in each school.