Schools that Excel: How Victoria’s most improved schools found an edge

Achievement doesn’t always mean the same thing at our winning schools, but all of them have a culture of high expectations.

Bayside college senior campus principal Milan Matejin with year 11 student Mia Molloy, senior teacher Sam Levy, year 11 student Cal Watkins and year 12 student Fatima El Haouli.“We make it hard for our students to leave programs that they initially joined, and the reason for that is, we are constantly challenging them,” senior campus principal Milan Matejin said.Student agency

”We’ve had students who were disengaged at their last school. They weren’t going, and their attendance was pretty poor. Then they’ve come here, and their attendance goes back to normal,” principal Raffaela Galati-Brown said. But the approach is far from hands-off. Indeed, it is demanding. One-on-one tutoring sessions at lunchtime and private lessons are par for the course.Seven years ago, St Joseph’s College, Echuca, was unhappy with its results, so staff took on the challenge of being better.

Similarly, Templestowe College was once a struggling school, outshone by its neighbours, with below average VCE results and shrinking enrolments.The school took a huge gamble, giving its students licence to reject the ATAR entirely, and focus on their passions without worrying about academic results. The experiment rejuvenated the school, which is now growing rapidly and, perhaps ironically, achieving better results.

I’d rather you did a deep dive into the appalling funding inequity facing public schools. If we want to address inequality, it starts here: no private school should receive public money and the poaching of kids through scholarships should be transparent.

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