The number of scores from 40 to 50, and their total, for each school. Select a column heading to sort the table.
Rank School 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Total scores
1Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School Southbank112111010008
2Faye Johnson-ross School of Dance Bentleigh East112010001006
3Luther College Croydon110000100003
4Mt Scopus Memorial College Burwood101010000003
5Ballarat and Clarendon College Ballarat000000000112
6Dance Factory Richmond000001010002
7St Columba's College Essendon010000100002
8Caulfield GS St Kilda East100010000002
9One Step Ahead Dance Studio Warragul100100000002
10Mt Martha Ballet School Mt Martha000001000001
11Cheryl Kaloger Brown School of Dance Hawthorn East000100000001
12Distance Education Centre Victoria Thornbury000100000001
13Fairhills HS Knoxfield000100000001
14Electric Dance Connection Bayswater001000000001
15Melbourne Girls' College Richmond001000000001
16Melbourne Ballet Company Gay Wightman School of Ballet Balwyn North010000000001
17Nazareth College Noble Park010000000001
18Pascoe Vale Girls SC Pascoe Vale010000000001
19Red Cliffs SC Red Cliffs010000000001
20Victorian Dance Academy Burwood East010000000001
21Aquinas College Ringwood100000000001
22Gisborne SC Gisborne100000000001
23Latrobe Valley School of Performing Arts Morwell100000000001
24St Monica's College Epping100000000001

Changelog

2025-12-13

Added 2025 data.

2024-12-13

Added 2024 data.

2023-12-12

Added 2023 data.

2022-12-14

Added 2022 data.

2021-12-18

Added 2021 data.

2020-12-31

Added 2020 data.

2019-12-19

Added 2019 data.

2018-12-19

Added 2018 data.

2017-12-21

Added 2017 data.

2017-02-11

Added 2016 data.

2015-12-16

Added 2015 data.

2014-12-17

Added estimated scaled scores for 2014.

2014-12-17

Added 2014 data. As the 2014 Scaling Report hasn't yet been released, estimated scaled scores are not available.

2013-12-16

Added 2013 data.

2013-02-06

Added online version of the archive.

2012-12-17

Added 2012 data. The Herald Sun published scores prematurely this year.

2011-12-20

Added 2011 data.

2011-07-11

Added scaling data for 1998 and 2000-2004.

2010-12-19

Added 2010 school data.

The Herald Sun decided to publish school names for 2010. Thanks to everyone who contacted them encouraging them to release this data.

2010-12-16

Added 2010 data.

Unfortunately, school names were not published online this year, so the usefulness of this archive is somewhat diminished.

Even so, this year's update brings some improvements:

  • Estimated scaled scores are now included alongside raw scores (2005-2010 only - I don't have the Scaling Reports for 2004 or earlier).
  • Included scaling table with raw to scaled score correspondences.
  • Added ranked school lists for each subject without student names included. These give a good overview of which school achieves the most 40+ scores for each subject.
  • Sorting algorithms changed when breaking ties. For example, a student with a single 40 in Visual Communication and Design was formerly ranked below a student with a single 40 in Accounting. The new sorting method uses student names, instead, so a surname starting with A will be listed above a surname starting with Z.
  • Slight formatting changes in lists.
2009-12-17

Updated 2009 data to include the subject 'Music Group Performance', which was missing from the Herald Sun's website this year. Thanks to kat148 for painstakingly typing the names out from the paper.

2009-12-16

Added 2009 data.

2009-01-27

Someone very kindly sent me the data from 1998 and 2000-2005 (it was not published online in 1999). I've sorted through it and included it in the archive. With 10 years' worth of data, the collection is now quite comprehensive.

Other changes include:

  • To save on bandwidth, the archive is now a 7-zip file, not a RAR file (it can still be opened with WinRAR).
  • Filenames have been changed to be a bit more descriptive (I hope).
  • A statistics file is included for each year.

Regrettably the school names in the 2002 data are messy (lots of schools have several listings with slightly different names). Consider this a known issue (I can't see how it can be fixed easily).

2008-12-26

Initial version uploaded to this page. Includes 2006-2008 data.