Compare schoolsMoonee Valley· Updated 12 September 2026· View on map

Secondary Schools in Moonee Valley

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: 6,1335.0%
5–14: 13,43311.0%
15–19: 6,4835.3%

of 121,851 residents

Government

7 schools

Median ICSEA

1048

6 of 7 published

Median VCE score

30.0

5 of 7 published

Total enrolments

5,582

6 of 7 published

What the sources record

0 of 6sit at or above ICSEA 1100 (1 have no published ICSEA).
5 of 7have a median study score published by VCAA.
5 of 7are recorded by VCAA as running VCE VM — the rest are not recorded either way.
5 of 7appear in the On Track destinations survey, which is voluntary — the rest did not respond.

School	ICSEA	VCE median	40+	Students/teacher	Enrolments	Programs
Buckley Park College Essendon · Government	1088	30.0	7.3%	12.0	888	VCE VM
Strathmore Secondary College Strathmore · Government	1086	30.0	6.5%	11.7	1,958	VCE VM
Mount Alexander 7-12 College Flemington · Government	1069	31.0	8.4%	13.0	827	VCE VM
Rosehill Secondary College Niddrie · Government	1027	30.0	3.5%	12.1	1,109	VCE VM
Ascot Vale Heights School Ascot Vale · Government	1021	Not published	Not published	4.2	103
Essendon Keilor College Keilor East · Government	1004	28.0	2.5%	11.2	697	VCE VM
Travancore School Travancore · Government	Not published	Not published	Not published	Not published	Not published

7 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 (22 schools), not any one school in it.

Fee-charging

5 schools

Median ICSEA

1107

Median VCE score

32.0

Total enrolments

7,212

What the sources record

4 of 5sit at or above ICSEA 1100.
5 of 5have a median study score published by VCAA.
3 of 5are recorded by VCAA as running VCE VM — the rest are not recorded either way.
2 of 5have a published fee schedule.
5 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
Penleigh & Essendon Grammar School Keilor East · Independent	1173	34.0	16.9%	10.2	2,913
Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School Essendon · Independent	1161	34.0	18.5%	9.7	859
St Columba's College Essendon · Catholic	1107	32.0	8.4%	13.4	1,047	VCE VM
St Bernard's College Essendon · Catholic	1100	31.0	8.4%	12.9	1,567	VCE VM
Ave Maria College Aberfeldie · Catholic	1082	31.0	8.3%	12.6	826	VCE VM

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

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