Compare schoolsBayside· Updated 12 September 2026· View on map

Secondary Schools in Bayside

Every secondary school in this area with the figures ACARA and VCAA publish, side by side. Sorted by ICSEA; a school with no published figure sorts last, never as a zero. Nothing here is estimated, projected or ranked.

Local school-age residents

ABS 2021 Census

Describes the area’s residents, not these schools’ families.

0–4: 4,4504.4%
5–14: 13,22513.1%
15–19: 6,9656.9%

of 101,306 residents

Government

4 schools

Median ICSEA

1106

Median VCE score

31.0

3 of 4 published

Total enrolments

2,956

What the sources record

3 of 4sit at or above ICSEA 1100.
3 of 4have a median study score published by VCAA.
3 of 4are recorded by VCAA as running VCE VM — the rest are not recorded either way.
1 schoolis recorded by VCAA as running the IB — the rest are not recorded either way.
2 of 4appear in the On Track destinations survey, which is voluntary — the rest did not respond.

School	ICSEA	VCE median	40+	Students/teacher	Enrolments	Programs
Beaumaris Secondary College Beaumaris · Government	1113	30.0	7.5%	11.6	893	VCE VM
Brighton Secondary College Brighton East · Government	1106	31.0	6.0%	10.8	873	IBVCE VM
Sandringham College Sandringham · Government	1106	31.0	7.2%	11.1	1,079	VCE VM
Hampton East School Hampton East · Government	1058	Not published	Not published	4.5	111

4 schools. Every figure is reproduced as its publisher reported it; a blank is a figure nobody published, never a zero. ACARA 2025. ICSEA is a socio-educational index describing a school’s student community, not a measure of its quality. The national average is 1000.

Attendance benchmark

Attendance rate85.9%

Students attending 90% or more50.5%

Government schools, Years 7-10, 2025. ACARA publishes attendance by abs-remoteness-area x sector, not by school — this describes Major Cities (15 schools), not any one school in it.

Fee-charging

5 schools

Median ICSEA

1143

Median VCE score

33.5

4 of 5 published

Total enrolments

5,365

What the sources record

5 of 5sit at or above ICSEA 1100.
4 of 5have a median study score published by VCAA.
2 of 5are recorded by VCAA as running VCE VM — the rest are not recorded either way.
1 schoolis recorded by VCAA as running the IB — the rest are not recorded either way.
4 of 5appear in the On Track destinations survey, which is voluntary — the rest did not respond.

School	ICSEA	VCE median	40+	Students/teacher	Enrolments	Programs
St Leonard's College Brighton East · Independent	1184	33.0	12.8%	8.8	1,597	IB
Firbank Grammar School Brighton · Independent	1152	34.0	23.0%	9.0	1,046
Brighton Grammar School Brighton · Independent	1143	34.0	18.6%	9.1	1,480	VCE VM
Star of the Sea College Brighton · Catholic	1132	33.0	13.7%	10.8	1,204	VCE VM
Tombolo Academy Hampton · Independent	1119	Not published	Not published	8.3	38

5 schools. Every figure is reproduced as its publisher reported it; a blank is a figure nobody published, never a zero. ACARA 2025. ICSEA is a socio-educational index describing a school’s student community, not a measure of its quality. The national average is 1000.

Attendance benchmark

Attendance rate91.6%

Students attending 90% or more72.6%

Independent schools, Years 7-10, 2025. ACARA publishes attendance by abs-remoteness-area x sector, not by school — this describes Major Cities (12 schools), not any one school in it.

Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)