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Secondary Schools in Cardinia

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: 9,0967.7%
5–14: 17,67515.0%
15–19: 7,2806.2%

of 118,194 residents

Government

6 schools

Median ICSEA

1001

Median VCE score

27.0

5 of 6 published

Total enrolments

4,463

What the sources record

0 of 6sit at or above ICSEA 1100.
5 of 6have a median study score published by VCAA.
4 of 6are recorded by VCAA as running VCE VM — the rest are not recorded either way.
4 of 6appear in the On Track destinations survey, which is voluntary — the rest did not respond.

School	ICSEA	VCE median	40+	Students/teacher	Enrolments	Programs
Officer Secondary College Officer · Government	1012	26.0	2.2%	12.3	998	VCE VM
Emerald Secondary College Emerald · Government	1005	28.0	1.4%	12.3	620	VCE VM
Edenbrook Secondary College Pakenham · Government	1002	27.0	11.8%	13.7	614
Officer Specialist School Officer · Government	999	Not published	Not published	5.9	355
Koo Wee Rup Secondary College Koo Wee Rup · Government	964	28.0	2.4%	12.4	846	VCE VM
Pakenham Secondary College Pakenham · Government	962	26.0	2.7%	12.2	1,030	VCE VM

6 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 (23 schools), not any one school in it.

Attendance rate80.2%

Students attending 90% or more35.9%

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

Fee-charging

5 schools

Median ICSEA

1035

Median VCE score

27.0

3 of 5 published

Total enrolments

6,691

What the sources record

0 of 5sit at or above ICSEA 1100.
3 of 5have a median study score published by VCAA.
1 of 5are recorded by VCAA as running VCE VM — the rest are not recorded either way.
2 of 5have a published fee schedule.
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
Fernbrook School The Basin · Independent	1049	Not published	Not published	9.8	78
St Francis Xavier College Beaconsfield · Catholic	1043	27.0	2.5%	12.0	2,797	VCE VM
Beaconhills College Pakenham · Independent	1035	28.0	3.7%	12.7	2,965
Lakeside College Pakenham · Independent	1034	Not published	Not published	12.9	647
St Thomas Aquinas College Tynong · Independent	1030	25.0	2.5%	8.6	204

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 (8 schools), not any one school in it.

Attendance rate88.9%

Students attending 90% or more61.6%

Independent schools, Years 7-10, 2025. ACARA publishes attendance by abs-remoteness-area x sector, not by school — this describes Inner Regional (4 schools), not any one school in it.

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