{"id":402279,"date":"2026-01-09T15:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/402279\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:59:15","slug":"was-top-school-2025-based-on-highest-performing-year-12s-in-atar-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/402279\/","title":{"rendered":"WA\u2019s top school 2025 based on highest-performing Year 12s in ATAR courses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perth Modern School<\/a> has snatched back the crown as WA\u2019s<\/a> top school, based on the number of ATAR subjects in which their Year 12s excelled last year.<\/p>\n

The State\u2019s only fully-academically selective school regularly tops league tables, but last year it was beaten to the number one spot on that measure by another public school, Shenton College.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL LIST AND RANKING<\/a><\/p>\n

The West Australian has analysed data released<\/a> on Wednesday by the School Curriculum and Standard\u2019s Authority to create a school ranking.<\/p>\n

The ranking is based on how frequently each school was named for its Year 12 students getting high grades across individual subjects.<\/p>\n

Ninety-four schools were recognised for having the highest-performing students in ATAR courses in 2025 \u2014 five more than last year.<\/p>\n

Of those, 13 schools had their names listed against 10 or more subjects.<\/p>\n

Perth Modern was recognised across an incredible 23 courses, ranging from chemistry and geography to psychology and Tamil, the main language spoken in Sri Lanka and southern India.<\/p>\n

Five public schools were in the top 10.<\/p>\n

The West devised the ranking measure after education authorities stopped releasing schools\u2019 median ATAR scores, which previously formed the basis of school rankings in WA.<\/p>\n

See the full list on thewest.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perth Modern School has snatched back the crown as WA\u2019s top school, based on the number of ATAR…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,2555,44,46,45],"class_list":["post-402279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-education","tag-news","tag-perth","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}