Compare schoolsNillumbik· Updated 12 September 2026· View on map

Secondary Schools in Nillumbik

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: 3,2215.1%
5–14: 8,44713.4%
15–19: 4,5727.3%

of 62,895 residents

Government

3 schools

Median ICSEA

1020

Median VCE score

27.5

2 of 3 published

Total enrolments

2,280

What the sources record

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

School	ICSEA	VCE median	40+	Students/teacher	Enrolments	Programs
Eltham High School Eltham · Government	1101	30.0	5.8%	12.1	1,326	VCE VM
Diamond Valley College Diamond Creek · Government	1020	25.0	0.5%	11.5	818	VCE VM
Diamond Valley Special Developmental School Greensborough · Government	1010	Not published	Not published	4.1	136

3 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 (16 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 (4 schools), not any one school in it.

Fee-charging

3 schools

Median ICSEA

1119

Median VCE score

32.0

Total enrolments

2,451

What the sources record

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

School	ICSEA	VCE median	40+	Students/teacher	Enrolments	Programs
Eltham College Research · Independent	1139	32.0	10.2%	8.5	639
Catholic Ladies' College Ltd Eltham · Catholic	1119	33.0	11.5%	11.1	901	VCE VM
Plenty Valley Christian College Doreen · Independent	1113	29.0	6.2%	12.5	911

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

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