By BEN CAMERON
KOOWEERUP Secondary College has recorded its best ever VCE results in its history.
“We had amazing Year 12 results. It’s our best-ever result,” a proud college principal Kym Bridgford said.
“We had a mean study score of 30.75 and a median study score of 30.”
34 (9.7 per cent overall) study scores recorded at least 40 out of a possible 50 for certain subjects.
“This figure in our best years is around the four per cent mark,” he said.
One student scored a perfect 50 for music while another recorded 49 in legal studies.
Dux Imogen McGindle recorded a score of 95.85 and the runner-up Sara Peters achieved 95.75. Both have been offered $30,000 scholarships with Monash University.
Six students recorded ATAR scores 90 or above while eight students recorded scores in the 80s.
Meanwhile, Beaconhills College has congratulated its Class of 2014 which topped study scores of the previous year.
A total of 250 students from its Berwick and Pakenham campuses completed their VCE with three quarters of all subjects scoring above the state average.
Almost 50 per cent of all ATAR scores were 70 and above, and over 25 per cent of students scored 80 and above.
Natalie Guiney was the dux of the Pakenham campus with an ATAR of 98.75 and Hayey Fisher in Berwick with 94.95.
Headmaster Tony Sheumack said the fact that Beaconhills College had such a significant number of students perform so well was “an outstanding testament to our highly-committed teachers”.
