Welcome to Northcote High School

Our website celebrates the activities and achievements of our school, now in its 82nd year. For a taste of what has gone on recently, browse through our pages. Strongly recommended for new visitors is the Students /Student Activities option at the top right!

Our Golden Girls - Northcote's State Championship swimmers

Congratulations to the new Victorian State Champion Girls Under 16 Medley Relay Team. The girls are Alessi Burnham, Lily Potocnik, Lauren Gilder and Eve Walton-Healey.

Visitors to our May Assembly

Tom Alexiadis and Lorey Whelan from Nelson Alexander Real Estate were among our guests at the May school assemblies. They presented the school with a cheque for use with students in need to Principal Gail Davidson and school captains Mike Wang and Steph Moncur (above). This was their commission from the sale of a property several weeks before; a most generous act by a well known local business.

On to State Athletics!

A number of our students qualified to compete at State Athletics carnival, after a most successful zone event. Zoe McWhinney and Sean Bolger were two of our successful competitors.

Outstanding VCE Results for 2007

December 17th saw the release of VCE results for 2007. For our Year 12, the highest ENTER score achieved was 99.5. For those who like statistics, 9% of study scores were 40+ (or "A+ study scores"). 18% of our students earned an ENTER of 90 or above and over 38% of students earned an ENTER of 80 or above. Two students achieved "perfect study scores" of 50 - in Philosophy and Macedonian. 176 students sat for the VCE at Northcote High School in 2007. Congratulations to all our students!!

Principal attends Federal Government's "2020 Summit"

Gail Davidson, Principal of Northcote High School, recently attended the Federal Government's 2020 Summit in Canberra. She was the only Principal from a Government school in Victoria to be invited. Click here for more details of the summit. This is a great honour for the school, and a testament to Gail's outstanding leadership. She was nominated by the University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor, Professor Glyn Davis.

Record levels of Tertiary Pathways for the Year 12 of 2007

For the Yr 12 of 2007, a record 95% of Northcote’s VCE cohort who applied for tertiary places received a "first round offer" in January 2008. The breakdown of University and TAFE offers was
Offer of University Studies in Victoria 117
Offer of TAFE studies in Victoria 41
Other Tertiary offer in Australia 13

The breakdown of tertiary courses has remained remarkably constant over the last four years, with RMIT and the University of Melbourne still the two most favoured tertiary course providers, followed by La Trobe University, RMIT TAFE and NMIT. The following figures are for first round offers:
University of Melbourne 39
RMIT University 29
La Trobe University 20
Victoria University 11
Monash University 4
Swinburne University 7
Deakin University 5
Aust Catholic Uni 2
RMIT TAFE 18
NMIT 11
William Angliss 1
Victoria University TAFE 4
Swinburne University TAFE 4
Kangan Batman 3
Other providers 13

Total Offers 171

Northcote High School - A School that works!

In October 2007, the University of Melbourne's in-house magazine featured Northcote High School, in an article on Associate Professor Stephen Lamb's research on school size.
Click here to read the article.