Austin Cove Baptist College is a newcomer to the Peel region, but in 2016 it has topped the ATAR ranking of local schools.
Established in 2011, its cohort of only nine year 12 students for 2016 was the smallest of any school in the area.
However, the median ATAR score for those nine students was 85.15: the highest median of any school in the region, and the only school in the region to out-perform the Western Australian median ATAR of 80.85.
This is only the second lot of ATAR students to graduate from the school.
The School Curriculum and Standards Authority record ATAR statistics for schools with groups of 20 or more ATAR students, and so Austin Cove did not appear on the tables for 2016, as with Coodanup College.
However, in 2016 Austin Cove Baptist College attained a 100 per cent graduation rate.
The only other school in the region to do so was Frederick Irwin Anglican College.
All students enrolled in VET courses at Austin Cove Baptist College achieved Certificate II or higher.
“It’s very exciting… obviously because it’s a new school, it’s good to get on the radar in the Peel-Mandurah area, and the fact is that a lot of our students worked incredibly hard, because of the tight academic processes we have in place,” principal Orlando dos Santos said.
“We make sure we give the kids the best opportunities, but we have a pretty tight discipline policy as well, and because we’ve got smaller classes we can also give our kids more individual attention.”
For more information on the Peel region’s ATAR rankings, see WACE rankings are in for Peel region schools.
