Below is the list of the best Victorian VCE schools ranked in order of their 2021 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 | Haileybury Girls College | Keysborough | 344 | 37.2 | 355 | 205 |
| 2 | Lauriston Girls School | Armadale | 142 | 33.7 | 118 | 69 |
| 3 | Bialik College | Hawthorn | 155 | 32.6 | 108 | 63 |
| 4 | Ballarat Clarendon College | Ballarat | 237 | 32.5 | 258 | 146 |
| 5 | St Catherines School | Toorak | 152 | 32.2 | 97 | 55 |
| 6 | Mount Scopus Memorial College | Burwood | 238 | 31.9 | 62 | 41 |
| 7 | Huntingtower School | Mount Waverley | 179 | 31.6 | 162 | 90 |
| 8 | MacRobertson Girls High School | Melbourne | 498 | 31.4 | 307 | 186 |
| 9 | Presbyterian Ladies College | Burwood | 240 | 30.4 | 181 | 95 |
| 10 | Melbourne High School | South Yarra | 689 | 30.2 | 472 | 222 |
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| 11 | Methodist Ladies College | Kew | 381 | 29.7 | 309 | 159 |
| 12 | Leibler Yavneh College | Elsternwick | 90 | 29.4 | 30 | 20 |
| 13 | Haileybury College | Keysborough | 516 | 29.2 | 404 | 229 |
| 14 | Fintona Girls School | Balwyn | 74 | 27.8 | 61 | 29 |
| 15 | Korowa Anglican Girls School | Glen Iris | 143 | 27.2 | 107 | 66 |
| 16 | Ruyton Girls School | Kew | 164 | 27.1 | 99 | 65 |
| 17 | Nossal High School | Berwick | 417 | 26.9 | 279 | 174 |
| 18 | The King David School | Armadale | 107 | 26.8 | 50 | 33 |
| 19 | Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School | Ivanhoe | 208 | 25.5 | 116 | 65 |
| 20 | Victorian College for the Deaf | Melbourne | 4 | 25 | 2 | 2 |
| 21 | Loreto Mandeville Hall | Toorak | 272 | 24.7 | 191 | 105 |
| 22 | Melbourne Grammar School | Melbourne | 371 | 24.5 | 274 | 158 |
| 23 | Camberwell Girls Grammar School | Canterbury | 184 | 24.1 | 101 | 65 |
| 24 | Shelford Girls Grammar | Caulfield | 119 | 23 | 68 | 43 |
| 25 | St Kevins College | Toorak | 378 | 22 | 287 | 158 |
| 26 | Trinity Grammar School | Kew | 269 | 21.7 | 183 | 111 |
| 27 | Scotch College | Hawthorn | 459 | 20.9 | 244 | 145 |
| 28 | Beth Rivkah Ladies College | St Kilda East | 70 | 20.9 | 20 | 14 |
| 29 | Strathcona Girls Grammar School | Canterbury | 166 | 20.5 | 100 | 56 |
| 30 | Sherbrooke Community School | Sassafras | 13 | 20 | 2 | 2 |
| 31 | Mentone Grammar School | Mentone | 309 | 19.9 | 194 | 122 |
| 32 | Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School | Essendon | 128 | 19.9 | 76 | 53 |
| 33 | Caulfield Grammar School Wheelers Hill | Wheelers Hill | 286 | 19.6 | 162 | 97 |
| 34 | Mentone Girls Grammar School | Mentone | 173 | 19.5 | 98 | 65 |
| 35 | Caulfield Grammar School Caulfield | St Kilda East | 429 | 19.4 | 266 | 151 |
| 36 | Holy Trinity Lutheran College | Horsham | 39 | 19.3 | 15 | 9 |
| 37 | Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School | Keilor East | 368 | 19 | 280 | 151 |
| 38 | Yarra Valley Grammar School | Ringwood | 324 | 18.9 | 178 | 100 |
| 39 | John Monash Science School | Clayton | 433 | 18.7 | 205 | 124 |
| 40 | Sacre Coeur | Glen Iris | 163 | 18.6 | 88 | 60 |
| 41 | Melbourne Girls Grammar | South Yarra | 236 | 18.4 | 115 | 70 |
| 42 | Genazzano F.C.J. College | Kew | 219 | 18.2 | 113 | 65 |
| 43 | Girton Grammar School | Bendigo | 189 | 18.2 | 86 | 59 |
| 44 | Firbank Grammar School | Brighton | 244 | 18.1 | 137 | 92 |
| 45 | St Margarets Berwick Grammar Berwick Campus | Berwick | 102 | 17.8 | 50 | 31 |
| 46 | Brighton Grammar School | Brighton | 243 | 17.7 | 137 | 91 |
| 47 | Star of the Sea College | Brighton | 290 | 17.6 | 157 | 88 |
| 48 | Goulburn Valley Grammar School | Shepparton | 137 | 17.4 | 77 | 40 |
| 49 | Suzanne Cory High School | Werribee | 451 | 17.2 | 185 | 118 |
| 50 | Carey Baptist Grammar School | Kew | 264 | 17.2 | 165 | 92 |