Victoria achieved its highest NAPLAN participation rate since 2008, with 96.6 per cent of students completing at least one assessment in 2025.
An average of 70 per cent of students fell in the ‘strong’ or ‘exceeding’ bands, while all age groups ranked first or second in all 10 domains.
GSCC curriculum and pedagogy principal Dougie Souter, who has been at GSSC since it opened, said each year the school had seen improvement in its NAPLAN results.
“We are very proud of the incremental progress that we’ve made with students in both literacy and numeracy over the course of the last five years,” Ms Souter said.
“That’s a really important thing ... for a brand-new school, but also because we’re supporting students from a fairly multicultural and diverse community.
“So while the whole school is making progress, that’s really important at the individual student level that they’re making progress and that we’re able to support them.”
GSSC mathematics domain leader Tara Richardson said the maths curriculum had been developed to cater for readiness for secondary learning that developed and built on core learning skills.
“With the start of GSSC, we had a really good opportunity to build our curriculum from the ground up and be able to refine it every year,” she said.
“A big focus that we’ve had in maths is making the secondary content accessible so that we can keep kids’ pathways open for Years 10, 11 and 12.”
English domain leader Stephanie Tregear highlighted the significant improvement made in VCE English outcomes last year.
“We noticed in English students were really struggling in end-of-year exams,” she said.
“We overhauled our approach to teaching VCE English last year ... so they could build up a bank of writing skills for their exams.”
State Member for Northern Victoria Jaclyn Symes said the results were a wonderful tribute to the leadership of executive principal Barb O’Brien and her staff, as well as the efforts of students.
“To see such positive results, and particularly pleasing improvements in Year 9 reading and numeracy, is encouraging, and a clear indicator our government’s investment in the Shepparton Education Plan is delivering an outstanding school where every local student can receive a world-class education,” she said.
Ms Richardson said teachers were proud of their various methods of teaching content to different students, and how their understanding had shone through in the NAPLAN results.
“We’ve done a significant amount of professional learning in maths, both on the content, and on how to teach it in different ways ... to cater for more of our kids,” she said.
“We want to provide students with the skills and the opportunities to get where they want to go in life, and to do that, they need these foundational maths and literacy skills.”
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