St Paul’s tops VCE results across region
A St Paul’s Anglican Grammar School student has topped VCE results around West Gippsland, achieving an ATAR of 98.5.
Principal Lisa Moloney said the school had a fabulous year and produced outstanding results.
As well as the top student, St Paul’s achieved significantly high results across the board with 12 per cent achieving an ATAR over 95, 22 per cent over 90 and 48 per cent achieving an ATAR higher than 80.
Amanda Fontaine was the school’s top student with 98.5. Amanda plans to study medicine at Monash University.
“It is one of the strongest years we have had,” Ms Moloney said. “We are particularly happy. These kids have worked really hard and some overcome some tough times.”
Among the top results around West Gippsland secondary schools were St Paul’s student Andrew Gourley (98.5), Rochelle Rajasingham (98.45), Oliver Adams (97.95) and Jack Shaddock (97.9).
Trafalgar High School’s Stevie Thomas topped the school with a 97.7 ATAR while Warragul Regional College student Nathan Murfet achieved a 97.3 ATAR.
Stevie hopes to gain entry into Monash University’s honours degree in science advanced global challenges while Nathan plans to study engineering and commerce at Monash University.
Warragul Regional College principal Paul van Breugel said the students achieved excellent results which represented a number of years of strong teaching.
“You get those results after six years of teaching, not just in year 12,” he said.
Mr van Breugel said 14 per cent of students achieved ATARs over 90 while 29 per cent were above 80.
The school also recorded two perfect 50 scores in biology and business management.
Trafalgar High School principal Jane Mersey said the school was very pleased with this year’s results with 4.6 per cent of VCE students achieving an ATAR above 95.
She said 18.5 per cent of students achieved ATAR scores over 80, which represented an increased performance on previous years.
“We are very pleased with the results and we are confident for our students in pursuing university and post school studies,” Ms Mersey said.
Drouin Secondary College student Julian Wainwright was the school’s dux with an ATAR of 96.4. He hopes to study law and arts next year with a focus on international relations.
Principal Deb Gentle said the school was overall very pleased with the results, with six students achieving study scores over 40.
The school had 8.8 per cent of students achieve an ATAR above 80 and two students recorded ATARs above 96.
Chairo Christian College principal Rob Bray said the top student at the Drouin campus was Samuel Wentworth with a score of 96.5.
Samuel was school captain this year and plans to study secondary education and science at Monash.
Overall, 11 per cent of Chairo’s students achieved an ATAR over 90 and 35 per cent were above 80.
Mr Bray said year 11 student Jacob Smeaten achieved perfect study score of 50 in further mathematics and 47 in computing – software development. “That was a very impressive performance for a year 11 student.”
“We are proud of all our students regardless of their ATAR. They are a wonderful group of young people who led our school wonderfully and contributed to the school culture,” he said.
Marist-Sion College’s top student was Chantelle Price with an ATAR of 94.05. Chantelle plans to study business and management at Swinburne.
Principal Peter Houlahan said another outstanding result was achieved by year 11 student James Curtain who achieved a 48 study score for VCE information technology.
Overall, 5.5 per cent of Marist-Sion students achieved ATAR scores over 90 and 17.3 per cent were above 80.
“We are pleased with the efforts of all our students in VCE and VCAL who are a great group of young people,” Mr Houlahan said.
The top student at St Thomas Aquinas College, Tynong was Therese Foley with an ATAR of 92.75.
Principal Fr Michael Fortin said they were particularly pleased with the overall performance of the students with 38 per cent of the class achieving ATARs above 80.
“Their overall results show well their attention and service to duty,” he said.
Neerim District Secondary College did not return calls to The Gazette before deadline.