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Balwyn's on a High
Jewel Topsfield and Craig Butt
December 17, 2011
REAL estate agents call it Balwyn's greatest drawcard. Properties within the coveted ''Balwyn High zone'', as it is spruiked on billboards, sell for up to $200,000 more than those in neighbouring streets. And Balwyn High's extraordinary VCE results this week show why Balwyn is still calling, with apologies to Skyhooks.
Students at the government high school obtained 20 perfect study scores of 50 out of 50, in 14 subjects ranging from specialist maths to visual communication and design. Only three schools received more - Melbourne High (39) and Mac.Robertson Girls High (31), both selective-entry government schools, and Caulfield Grammar (25), which charges more than $22,000 in fees in year 12.
Of Balwyn High's 349 year 12 students, 19 received an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank of 99 and above and 122 - 35 per cent of the total student cohort - received a rank of 90 and above.
''There is a culture in the school that it's really cool to do well,'' says principal Deborah Harman. ''It's like a magnet.'' She says the fact that students have been so successful in a broad range of subjects reflects the quality of the teachers in all year levels, not just VCE.
School captain Sam Dimopoulos received a ranking of 99.85, which included perfect scores for international studies and legal studies this year and economics last year. ''It's good, you almost get a bit more respect [from other students] if you try hard in studies … from what I've heard that is not as strong in other schools as here,'' Sam says.
''It's definitely a great feeling to be part of Balwyn. It's got to be great publicity for the [public] education system - if you had more public schools that got results like Balwyn, you'd have a much healthier balance between public and private.''
Balwyn High is a co-educational, specialist music school with 1930 students, located in Balwyn North, about 11 kilometres east of the CBD.
While largely open-entry, it offers some places in the Accelerated Learning Program to year 7 students from outside the zone and about a dozen music placements every year.
There are waiting lists of students across all year levels who live outside the zone but want to attend the school, including 60 who would like to enrol in year 7 next year.
Tim Heavyside of Fletchers Real Estate says homes in the Balwyn High zone, which is bounded by the Eastern Freeway and Whitehorse Road, are valued at 15 per cent more than those just outside the zone. He says the school has been a huge drawcard for aspirational Asian families, who have gone from 20 per cent of home buyers in the zone in 2000 to about 60 per cent this year.
''They may decide rather than invest 25 grand in school fees every year, I'll utilise that in travel and educate my child in life, but they still get the benefit of being at the fourth-best school in the state,'' Mr Heavyside says.
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