Houses within public school catchment areas have vastly outperformed their respective suburbs in the past year, with values rising 10 times faster in some cases, and largely defying the broader downturn, Domain’s School Zone report shows.
COMMITTED: Casterton teenager Riley Munro has received a $3000 Glenelg Shire Council Aboriginal Education Scholarship to support his secondary education at Casterton Secondary College.
THREE western Victorian students have received $3000 to boost their future studies as part of the Glenelg Shire Council’s Aboriginal Education Scholarship program.
Casterton’s Riley Munro, 16, Portland’s Jakobe Walker, 16, and Heywood’s Peter James (PJ) Barker-Lovett, 19, will use the funds to cover the financial costs of their respective studies.
Riley’s scholarship will support his secondary education at Casterton Secondary College.
“The funding will help provide me with the resources to achieve good results in my study as well as an opportunity to attend excursions and camps,” he said.
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A small school in a paddock has outperformed highly regarded Melbourne state schools this year based on typical student scores.
East Loddon P-12 College in Dingee, about 48 kilometres north of Bendigo, had only five year 12 students in 2020 but recorded some of the best VCE results of government schools across the state.
East Loddon P-12 College VCE English teacher Sarah Clare (third from right) with year 12 students (from left) Hugh Cartwright, Ella Rowe, Hayley Ramskill, Jasmine Condliffe and Sophie Hay.
The school s median study score was 34, and almost 14 per cent of its study scores were 40 or above.
The median score is a good measure of typical student performance. It doesn t capture individual students who achieve results far above or below their peers.