The 2024 Schools that Excel.

Schools that Excel 2024:Find out your school’s VCE results

The Age’s Schools that Excel series celebrates schools that achieve outstanding improvement in their VCE results over a decade. Find out who won and use our dashboard to track your school’s results.

  • Craig Butt andRobyn Grace

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Surf Coast Secondary College principal Shane Elevato with students (from left) Maggie O’Brien,Will Wyllie,Nainoa Le Nevez and Thorson Crawley.

The regional school where the surf’s up – and so are the VCE scores

A government school with a surf academy and a Catholic school steeped in history have been chosen as The Age’s 2024 Schools that Excel in regional Victoria.

  • Robyn Grace andCaroline Schelle
Yarra Valley Grammar principal Dr Mark Merry with students Honor Thornton,Noah Cameron,Catherine Zhook,Cassidy Coetzee and Gideon Tse.

After a crisis:How a school turned a public scandal into a teaching moment

An independent school that had its values tested in the most public way and a government school that celebrates its students’ success are The Age’s 2024 Schools that Excel winners in Melbourne’s east.

  • Robyn Grace
Experts say universal numeracy screening could halt Australia’s “catch-up crisis”.

Numeracy in schools doesn’t add up. Here’s how experts would solve the problem

All children would be tested for numeracy knowledge in the first two years of school under a plan to tackle underachievement in maths.

  • Robyn Grace
Small-group tutoring has been running in Victorian schools since 2021.

$1 billion tutoring program did little to help kids catch up

The Victorian auditor-general has found students who took part in the small-group tutoring program showed similar improvement to those who weren’t tutored.

  • Robyn Grace
Lucia Haigh has lost $7000 in deposits paid for her daughters to attend a space camp.

Parents thousands of dollars out of pocket after NASA trips cancelled

Up to 700 students have been affected nationally including pupils from Reddam House,The King’s School and The Forest High.

  • Lucy Carroll andRobyn Grace
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Port Melbourne Primary School students Felix,Chloe,Gonzalo and Brooklyn with principal Tom Cain.

The way children are taught to read in Victoria is about to change

Victoria is almost the last state or territory to adopt this approach. But Education Minister Ben Carroll says the evidence is in.

  • Robyn Grace
Former school principal Owen Holleran.

Owen loved being a principal. But he never wants to set foot in a school again

Some experts believe principals could be eligible to launch legal claims for moral injury – a psychological condition once reserved for soldiers in war zones.

  • Robyn Grace
How Australia’s universities compare in the 2025 QS rankings.

Where Australian universities rank among world’s best,and why it’s under threat

One Victorian university has been named among the world’s top 20,but experts warn a limit on international students could hinder our progress.

  • Robyn Grace
About 40 per cent of students in Australia report being distracted by digital devices in their maths lessons.

How much screen time is too much? This is the answer to every parent’s question

New data reveals how Australian schools rank among OECD nations for the time students spend on digital devices in classrooms.

  • Lucy Carroll andRobyn Grace