Iris Zavros Phillips, who leaves Kew’s Preshil private school this year, will be among more than 65,500 students to receive their VCE results and among the first five Preshil students to receive VCE results in six years.
Iris Zavros Phillips, 18, will receive her VCE results today and has already secured an offer from College of the Arts Australia.Credit: Justin McManus
When Iris joined Preshil as a year 5 student in 2019, the school had just dropped VCE and switched to the International Baccalaureate.
The reintroduction follows the school introducing the VCE (Vocational Major) last year.
Aaron Mackinnon, who started as principal at Preshil in May last year, conducted a wide review to combat the sliding enrolments and bring the budget back into the black.
While always a minnow in the independent sector, Preshil was shrinking. Enrolments had nosedived from 256 in 2019 to just 205 in 2024, rising to 223 this year. The school ended last year $2.1 million in the red.
“That was one of the reasons we conducted the review. Students were getting to year 10 and then leaving,” Mackinnon said.