Below is the list of the best Victorian VCE schools ranked in order of their 2008 VCE 40+ percentage measure, as published by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.
The VCE 40+ percentage is the proportion of VCE study scores of 40 or more at each school.
Where two schools have equal 40+ percentage measures, the total count of 40+ scores is used as a secondary ranking measure.
Note that this report is an excerpt. To see the complete set of award statistics for each school, please refer to the Vic School VCE Statistics report.
| 1 | MacRobertson Girls High School | Melbourne | 486 | 42 | 570 | 304 |
| 2 | Ruyton Girls School | Kew | 125 | 40 | 146 | 87 |
| 3 | Melbourne High School | South Yarra | 694 | 37 | 744 | 383 |
| 4 | Mount Scopus Memorial College | Burwood | 259 | 34 | 191 | 100 |
| 5 | Korowa Anglican Girls School | Glen Iris | 126 | 33 | 127 | 63 |
| 6 | Leibler Yavneh College | Elsternwick | 79 | 32 | 44 | 23 |
| 7 | Yeshivah College | St Kilda East | 27 | 32 | 15 | 7 |
| 8 | Presbyterian Ladies College | Burwood | 283 | 31 | 220 | 118 |
| 9 | Camberwell Girls Grammar School | Canterbury | 188 | 31 | 164 | 91 |
| 10 | Beth Rivkah Ladies College | St Kilda East | 85 | 31 | 35 | 24 |
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| 11 | Bialik College | Hawthorn | 158 | 29 | 87 | 51 |
| 12 | Scotch College | Hawthorn | 410 | 28 | 367 | 203 |
| 13 | Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School | Keilor East | 247 | 28 | 333 | 135 |
| 14 | Strathcona Girls Grammar School | Canterbury | 179 | 28 | 157 | 78 |
| 15 | Melbourne Girls Grammar | South Yarra | 245 | 27 | 203 | 110 |
| 16 | Huntingtower School | Mount Waverley | 116 | 27 | 86 | 46 |
| 17 | Ballarat Clarendon College | Ballarat | 241 | 26 | 209 | 116 |
| 18 | Caulfield Grammar School Wheelers Hill | Wheelers Hill | 277 | 26 | 204 | 104 |
| 19 | Fintona Girls School | Balwyn | 127 | 26 | 99 | 56 |
| 20 | Methodist Ladies College | Kew | 407 | 25 | 358 | 203 |
| 21 | Melbourne Grammar School | Melbourne | 385 | 25 | 297 | 176 |
| 22 | St Kevins College | Toorak | 306 | 25 | 277 | 159 |
| 23 | Loreto Mandeville Hall | Toorak | 169 | 25 | 135 | 82 |
| 24 | Victorian College for the Deaf | Melbourne | 5 | 25 | 5 | 5 |
| 25 | Genazzano F.C.J. College | Kew | 280 | 24 | 221 | 120 |
| 26 | Firbank Grammar School | Brighton | 176 | 24 | 128 | 65 |
| 27 | Camberwell Grammar School | Canterbury | 288 | 23 | 213 | 119 |
| 28 | Haileybury Girls College | Keysborough | 295 | 23 | 194 | 127 |
| 29 | Xavier College | Kew | 442 | 22 | 303 | 178 |
| 30 | Caulfield Grammar School Caulfield | St Kilda East | 354 | 22 | 252 | 151 |
| 31 | Ballarat Grammar School | Wendouree | 304 | 22 | 202 | 124 |
| 32 | Sacre Coeur | Glen Iris | 139 | 22 | 104 | 65 |
| 33 | St Catherines School | Toorak | 134 | 22 | 65 | 37 |
| 34 | Carey Baptist Grammar School | Kew | 319 | 21 | 223 | 132 |
| 35 | Brighton Grammar School | Brighton | 251 | 21 | 160 | 94 |
| 36 | Waverley Christian College Wantirna South | Wantirna South | 115 | 21 | 75 | 37 |
| 37 | Canterbury Girls Secondary College | Canterbury | 268 | 20 | 172 | 103 |
| 38 | Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School | Ivanhoe | 252 | 20 | 134 | 82 |
| 39 | Toorak College | Mount Eliza | 168 | 20 | 81 | 47 |
| 40 | The King David School | Armadale | 117 | 20 | 68 | 38 |
| 41 | Lauriston Girls School | Armadale | 100 | 20 | 59 | 43 |
| 42 | Balwyn High School | Balwyn North | 531 | 19 | 334 | 199 |
| 43 | Haileybury College | Keysborough | 400 | 19 | 211 | 128 |
| 44 | St Michaels Grammar School | St Kilda | 265 | 19 | 154 | 94 |
| 45 | Goulburn Valley Grammar School | Shepparton | 145 | 19 | 97 | 51 |
| 46 | Shelford Girls Grammar | Caulfield | 105 | 19 | 59 | 43 |
| 47 | Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School | Essendon | 110 | 19 | 58 | 34 |
| 48 | Kaniva P-12 College | Kaniva | 11 | 19 | 6 | 4 |
| 49 | University High School | Parkville | 348 | 18 | 205 | 113 |
| 50 | The Knox School | Wantirna South | 133 | 18 | 68 | 40 |