“[The teachers] build a fantastic rapport with the students,” says principal Dean Rogers. “Being a small country town, you see them out in the yard, you see them out in the community, you go to the same places, and all these things contribute.'
Kerang Technical High School is a small school in northern Victoria that is officially classed as hard to staff, but offers prospective employees a strong and long sense of community.
Its median study score has risen over the past decade, reaching a 10-year high of 30 last year. The percentage of students with a study score 40 or above has also surged to a 10-year high of 9.3 per cent last year. You can view the full list of winning schools, and explore the data for your secondary school using this year’s Schools that Excel dashboard:
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