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Languages Provision in Victorian Government Schools, 2012

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ContentsList of tables and figures 5

Tables 5

Figures 6

Acronyms 7

Preface 8

Data Collection Process 8

Overview 8

1. Overview of the Study of Languages in 2012 10

Victorian Government Primary and Secondary Schools 10

Languages Programs in Victorian Government Schools 10

Trends in Languages Programs in Victorian Government Primary Schools (excluding VSL) 14

Trends in Languages Programs in Victorian Government Secondary Schools (excluding VSL) 15

Language Profiles 17

2. Summary of Findings 21

Victorian Government Primary Schools 21

Victorian Government Secondary Schools 22

Teachers of Languages in Victorian Government Schools 23

Bilingual Programs in Victorian Government Schools 23

The Victorian School of Languages 23

Community Languages Schools 24

3. Victorian Government Primary Schools 25

Schools 25

Students 27

Languages Taught 29

Contact Time 32

Program Types 33

Contents 3

ContentsRegional Provision of Languages Programs 35

4. Victorian Government Secondary Schools 37

Schools 37

Students 39

Languages Taught 40

Male/Female Enrolments 42

Languages Study at the VCE Level 44

Contact Time 46

Program Types 46

Regional Provision of Languages 47

5. Teachers of Languages in Victorian Government Schools 50

6. Bilingual Programs in Victorian Government Schools 53

7. The Victorian School of Languages 55

Distance Education Provision at the Victorian School of Languages 58

8. Community Languages Schools 60

Appendix 1: Languages by provider of programs, 201262

Appendix 2: Languages by Government Primary Schools, 2012 63

Appendix 3: Languages by Government Secondary Schools, 2012

74

Appendix 4: Government Primary Schools and Languages Provided, 2012 81

Appendix 5: Government Secondary Schools and Languages Provided, 2012 99

Appendix 6: VSL Centres and Languages Provided, 2012 107

Appendix 7: Schools without Languages programs, 2012 109

Appendix 8: Victorian government schools that did not provide data, 2012 116

Contents 4

List of tables and figuresTablesTable 1.1: Total enrolments in Languages study, government primary and secondary

schools, and the VSL, 2012..................................................................................................11

Table 1.2: Number of primary and secondary level programs, by language, 2012................................13

Table 1.3: Enrolment trends in Italian, 2006–12....................................................................................17

Table 1.4: Enrolment trends in Indonesian, 2006–12............................................................................17

Table 1.5: Enrolment trends in Japanese, 2006–12..............................................................................17

Table 1.6: Enrolment trends in French, 2006–12...................................................................................18

Table 1.7: Enrolment trends in Chinese (Mandarin), 2006–12..............................................................18

Table 1.8: Enrolment trends in German, 2006–12.................................................................................18

Table 1.9: Enrolment trends in Auslan, 2006–12...................................................................................19

Table 1.10: Enrolment trends in Spanish, 2006–12.................................................................................19

Table 1.11: Enrolment trends in Greek, 2006–12....................................................................................19

Table 1.12: Enrolment trends in Vietnamese, 2006–12...........................................................................20

Table 1.13: Enrolment trends in Turkish, 2006–12..................................................................................20

Table 1.14: Enrolment trends in Arabic, 2006–12....................................................................................20

Table 3.1: Number and percentage of primary schools with Languages programs, by year level, 2006–12...............................................................................................................26

Table 3.2: Number and percentage of primary level programs, by language, 2012...........................27

Table 3.3: Primary level Languages enrolments by year level and as a percentage of total student population, 2006–12.........................................................................................28

Table 3.4: Primary enrolments, by language and year level, 2012........................................................30

Table 3.5: Primary enrolments, by language and program type, 2012..................................................34

Table 3.6: Primary schools providing Languages programs, by region, 2012.......................................35

Table 3.7: Primary enrolments, by language and region, 2012.............................................................36

Table 4.1: Number and percentage of secondary programs, by language, 2012..................................38

Table 4.2: Secondary level Languages enrolments, by year level and as a percentage of total student population, 2006–12.....................................................................................39

Table 4.3: Secondary enrolments, by language and year level, 2012...................................................41

Table 4.4: Secondary enrolments as a percentage of all Languages enrolments, selected languages, Years 7 and 12, 2012...........................................................................42

Table 4.5: Secondary enrolments, by gender and language, 2012.......................................................43

Table 4.6: Student enrolments (government schools) by language, students eligible to graduate from VCE, 2008 –12 (based on VCE unit 4 enrolments).......................................44

Table 4.7: Government school students eligible to graduate from VCE, 2012: number of students who completed a VCE Unit 4 Languages course by year undertaken...................45

Table 4.8: Secondary Languages enrolments, by language and program type, 2012...........................47

Table 4.9: Secondary enrolments, by region and language, 2012.........................................................48

Table 4.10: Secondary Languages students, by metropolitan and regional areas, by year level, 2012.............................................................................................................................49

Table 5.1: Teachers by gender and language, 2012.............................................................................51

Table 6.1: Designated bilingual programs, 2012....................................................................................54

Table 7.1: VSL enrolments, by language and year level, 2012..............................................................56

Table 7.2: Student enrolments in distance education, by language and year level, 2012.....................59

Table 8.1: CLS enrolments by language, and school numbers, 2012...................................................60

Tables and Figures 5

Table 8.2: CLS teachers, by language, 2012.........................................................................................61

FiguresFigure 1.1: Total enrolments in six most-studied languages, 2006–12...................................................12

Figure 1.2: Number and percentage of primary schools providing a Languages program, 2006–12................................................................................................................................14

Figure 1.3: Number of primary schools offering the six most-studied languages, 2006-12....................15

Figure 1.4: Number and percentage of secondary schools providing a Languages program, 2006–12.................................................................................................................15

Figure 1.5: Number of secondary schools offering the six most-studied languages, 2006-12..........................................................................................................................................16

Figure 3.1: Percentage of primary schools providing Languages programs, by year level, 2006–12................................................................................................................................25

Figure 3.2: Sequences of Languages programs in primary schools, 2012.............................................26

Figure 3.3: Percentage of primary school students studying Languages, 2006–12................................28

Figure 3.4: Primary level Languages enrolments, by year level, 2006–12..............................................29

Figure 3.5: Primary level enrolments, by language, 2012.......................................................................31

Figure 3.6: Primary enrolments for the seven most-studied languages, 2006–12..................................31

Figure 3.7: Enrolments in primary Languages programs, by minutes per week, 2012...........................32

Figure 3.8: Average minutes of Languages study per week, 2006–12...................................................32

Figure 3.9: Primary Languages enrolments (%), by program type, 2012................................................33

Figure 3.10: Percentage of primary schools providing a Languages program, by region, 2012......................................................................................................................................35

Figure 4.1: Percentage of secondary schools providing Languages programs, by year level, 2006–12.......................................................................................................................37

Figure 4.2: Sequences of Languages programs in secondary schools*, 2012.......................................38

Figure 4.3: Percentage of secondary students studying a language, by year level, 2006–12..........................................................................................................................................40

Figure 4.4: Percentage of secondary level students studying a language, 2006–12..............................40

Figure 4.5: Secondary enrolments, by language, 2012...........................................................................41

Figure 4.6: Secondary enrolments, six most-studied languages, 2006–12.............................................42

Figure 4.7: Secondary Languages enrolments, by gender and year level, 2012....................................43

Figure 4.8: Average minutes per week for Languages programs, by year level, 2006–12.....................46

Figure 4.9: Secondary Languages students (percentage) in metropolitan and regional areas, by year level, 2012.....................................................................................................48

Figure 4.10: Languages enrolments at Years 11 and 12, by regional or metropolitan regions, 2006–12..................................................................................................................49

Figure 5.1: Languages teachers, by school type, 2012...........................................................................50

Figure 5.2: Qualification levels of Languages teachers, 2012.................................................................52

Figure 5.3: Hours spent teaching Languages each week, primary and secondary levels, 2012......................................................................................................................................52

Figure 7.1: Enrolments at the VSL, 2006–12..........................................................................................55

Figure 7.2: Languages enrolments at the VSL, by sector, 2012.............................................................58

Figure 7.3: Student enrolments in distance education (six most-studied languages), 2006–12................................................................................................................................59

6 Languages in Victorian government schools, 2012

Acronyms

AusVELS Victorian Foundation (Prep) to Year 10 curriculum

CLS Community Languages School

NEVNorth-Eastern Victoria - encompasses the Hume and Eastern Metropolitan Regions

NWVNorth Western Victoria - encompasses the Loddon Mallee and Northern Metropolitan Regions

SEVSouth-Eastern Victoria - encompasses the Gippsland and Southern Metropolitan Regions.

SWVSouth-Western Victoria - encompasses the Barwon South Western, Grampians and Western Metropolitan Regions

VCAA Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority

VCE Victorian Certificate of Education

VSL Victorian School of Languages

Acronyms 7

PrefaceComprehensive data about the provision of Languages education in Victorian government schools has been collected centrally and published since 1991. This report provides an analysis of the provision of Languages education in Victorian government schools in 2012, including the Victorian School of Languages (VSL). For the first time this report includes data about the provision of Languages education in accredited Community Languages Schools (CLS) funded by DEECD in 2012. Community Languages Schools provide classes to students from Prep to Year 12 (depending on the language) outside mainstream school hours; i.e. after school or on weekends. The report does not include data about the provision of languages education in non-government schools.

The Victorian Government's Vision for Languages Education, released in November 2011, outlined the Government's commitment to extend and improve Languages education in Victorian schools. This includes a commitment to introduce compulsory languages education for all government school students from Prep to Year 10 by 2025, beginning with Prep in 2015.

In 2012, a range of initiatives and strategies that support the Vision were implemented. This included redefining the types of Languages programs necessary to achieve the Government’s languages education vision. Programs, which focus on developing cultural awareness and limited vocabulary in the target language (Cultural Awareness and Limited Language Programs), were previously included in data and reports on Languages education in Victorian schools. From 2012, these programs were not considered Languages programs on the basis that they would not lead to student proficiency in a language. They are therefore are no longer counted in the report, which only considers programs where the primary aim is language acquisition.

Data Collection ProcessThe data in this report is based on responses from primary and secondary schools to a web-based Languages survey. The Languages survey is administered as part of the DEECD mid-year (August) school supplementary census and the data collected provides a picture of the provision of Languages education at that time in Victoria.

In 2012, due to industrial action, more than 160 schools chose not to complete part of or all of the DEECD Mid-year (August) school supplementary census, including the Languages component. Some of these non-responses may have also been due to technical difficulties. Where 2011 data was available for those schools, this data was used in compiling the 2012 report. Therefore, if a school did not offer a Languages program or a Cultural Awareness and Limited Language Program in 2011, they are recorded as not having a Languages program in 2012.The lack of data from some schools has had most impact on findings detailed in the section 5 of the report. Appendix 8 of this report includes a list of the schools for which the Languages component of the August census in 2012 was not complete, and identifies where 2011 data was used.

OverviewIn 2012, twenty-two languages were taught in government schools, 50 languages were studied through the VSL and 43 languages were studied though CLS, representing 67 languages in total. Appendix 1 contains a list of the 67 languages studied in Victorian government schools, the VSL and CLS and lists the types of school in which each is taught.

Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, French, Chinese (Mandarin), German, Auslan and Spanish were the most-studied languages across all government primary and secondary schools. At the VSL, community languages were more widely studied. The eight most -studied languages at the VSL were Chinese (Mandarin), Vietnamese, Greek, Turkish, Japanese, French, Arabic and Italian. The six most-studied languages in CLS were Chinese (Mandarin), Greek, Vietnamese, Arabic, Somali and Italian.

Nine hundred and sixty-six or 66.4% of government schools in Victoria offered Languages programs in 2012, with a total of 266,146 students (49.7%) enrolled in these programs. A further 3,409 students were enrolled in taster programs at the secondary level. A taster program exposes students to a range of languages for a short period before they select one language for ongoing


study. There were also 15,586 enrolments at the Victorian School of Languages, with eleven languages provided by distance education mode. A total of 281,732 students were enrolled in language programs in 2012. In addition, 36,964 students studied languages at an accredited CLS. These students may also have studied a language at a government or non-government mainstream school.

The exclusion of Cultural Awareness and Limited Language Programs from the 2012 report has resulted in a decline in the reported number of Languages programs and the number of students learning a language, predominantly at the primary level. In 2011, 78,174 (40.6%) of primary students and 1,666 (1.8%) of secondary students were enrolled in a language and cultural awareness program (data from 1,539 schools). This needs to be considered when comparing 2011 and 2012 data.

Appendix 7 contains a list of government schools, which did not offer a Languages program in 2012 and indicates whether they offered a cultural program.

Preface 9

1. Overview of the Study of Languages in 2012The following analysis reviews Languages study overall and at the primary and secondary levels in Victorian government schools over the last seven years. It provides an overview of the current state of Languages and highlights the differing patterns in the study of Languages at the primary and secondary levels.

Victorian Government Primary and Secondary SchoolsThis report considers data collected in August 2012, from 1,454 government primary and secondary schools in Victoria. Across the 1,454 schools, 1,209 schools offered primary level schooling and 319 schools offered secondary level schooling. English language schools and special schools are not included in this figure, nor are they considered in this report.

It should be noted that the number of government schools changes slightly each year. For example, data from 1,470 schools was considered in the 2010 report, while this number decreased to 1,456 schools in 2011 and to 1,454 in 2012. Therefore, percentages, as well as actual numbers, are provided for clarity in some tables and figures (e.g. Figure 1.2).

Languages Programs in Victorian Government Schools In 2012, 966 (66.4%) of 1,454 government schools in Victoria offered Languages programs. A total of 266,146 students (49.7%) were enrolled in these programs. A further 3,409 students were enrolled in taster programs at the secondary level. There were also 15,586 enrolments at the Victorian School of Languages (VSL) bringing the total number of enrolments in Languages programs in 2012 to 285,141 (Table 1.1).

Twenty-two languages were taught in government schools in 2012, while 50 languages were studied through the VSL. Table 1.1 provides a summary of enrolments in Victorian government primary and secondary schools, including all enrolments at the VSL (including through distance education), for 2012. (Appendix 1 lists all 67 languages that were studied by Victorian government school students at their schools or through the VSL or CLS. The languages are listed by type of provider.)

Note that at the secondary level, students studying more than one language through taster programs are counted for each language they are enrolled in. Hence, Table 1.1 represents student enrolments, not the number of students studying a language.


Table 1.1: Total enrolments in Languages study, government primary and secondary schools, and the VSL, 2012

Language Primary Primary VSL

Primary total

Second. Second. VSL

Second. total

Total enrol.

%*

Italian 42,848 167 43,015 18,499 435 18,934 61,949 21.7

Indonesian 35,692 5 35,697 18,375 404 18,779 54,476 19.1

Japanese 35,050 90 35,140 17,245 714 17,959 53,099 18.6

French 14,701 114 14,815 18,914 626 19,540 34,355 12.0

Chinese (Mandarin)

19,368 1,325 20,693 7,251 1,364 8,615 29,308 10.3

German 9,077 35 9,112 10,949 427 11,376 20,488 7.2

Auslan 9,222 0 9,222 407 0 407 9,629 3.4

Spanish 3,581 210 3,791 460 384 844 4,635 1.6

Greek 2,103 728 2,831 1,071 267 1,338 4,169 1.5

Vietnamese 437 1,061 1,498 562 932 1,494 2,992 1.0

Turkish 733 431 1,164 254 398 652 1,816 0.6

Arabic 459 285 744 214 326 540 1,284 0.5

Korean 726 118 844 0 201 201 1,045 0.4

Hindi 396 188 584 0 171 171 755 0.3

Macedonian 132 188 320 214 203 417 737 0.3

Sinhala 0 399 399 0 187 187 586 0.2

Punjabi 0 246 246 0 212 212 458 0.2

Karen 36 205 241 0 158 158 399 0.1

Latin 0 0 0 272 103 375 375 0.1

Croatian 0 180 180 0 133 133 313 0.1

Chin (Hakha) 0 133 133 0 87 87 220 0.1

Persian 0 13 13 0 175 175 188 0.1

Dari 0 79 79 0 96 96 175 0.1

Aboriginal Languages

76 0 76 96 0 96 172 0.1

Khmer 0 77 77 0 88 88 165 0.1

Polish 0 25 25 0 125 125 150 0.1

Bosnian 0 44 44 0 96 96 140 <0.1

Serbian 14 45 59 0 73 73 132 <0.1

Hebrew 0 28 28 0 62 62 90 <0.1

Russian 0 58 58 0 31 31 89 <0.1

Dutch 39 18 57 0 30 30 87 <0.1

Portuguese 3 36 39 0 47 47 86 <0.1

Classical Greek

0 0 0 79 6 85 85 <0.1

Albanian 0 35 35 0 44 44 79 <0.1

Dinka 0 49 49 0 26 26 75 <0.1

Filipino 0 7 7 0 40 40 47 <0.1

Maltese 0 25 25 0 19 19 44 <0.1

Hungarian 0 16 16 0 16 16 32 <0.1

Chin (Falam) 0 15 15 0 17 17 32 <0.1

Chin (Matu) 0 21 21 0 4 4 25 <0.1

Tamil 0 23 23 0 0 0 23 <0.1

Romanian 0 1 1 0 21 21 22 <0.1

Pushto 0 16 16 0 5 5 21 <0.1

Overview 11

Language Primary Primary VSL

Primary total

Second. Second. VSL

Second. total

Total enrol.

%*

Chinese (Cantonese)

0 12 12 0 7 7 19 <0.1

Bengali 0 14 14 0 1 1 15 <0.1

Tigrinya 0 9 9 0 2 2 11 <0.1

Swahili 0 5 5 0 6 6 11 <0.1

Amharic 0 9 9 0 1 1 10 <0.1

Syriac 0 9 9 0 0 0 9 <0.1

Bulgarian 0 7 7 0 0 0 7 <0.1

Gujarati 0 6 6 0 1 1 7 <0.1

Lithuanian 0 1 1 0 4 4 5 <0.1

Total 174,693 6,811 181,504 94,862 8,775 103,637 285,141 100*As a percentage of Languages enrolments.

Figure 1.1 provides trends in the six most-studied languages between 2006 and 2012. This figure includes enrolments at the primary and secondary levels, as well as all enrolments at the VSL (including distance education enrolments). The most noticeable trend across primary and secondary schools has been the decline in enrolments for Italian, Japanese and German. Enrolments in Indonesian also experienced a significant decline between 2006 and 2010 but increased slightly in 2012. Enrolments in French were stable, but experienced a slight decline in 2012. Chinese (Mandarin) was the only language among the six most-studied languages to consistently grow between 2006 and 2012, up 95.3%, albeit from a small base.

Table 1.2 provides the number of Languages programs in Victorian government primary and secondary schools in 2012. Overall decline in the number of Languages programs is the result of the exclusion of Cultural Awareness and Limited Language Programs. Of note however, is the continuing uptake of Chinese (Mandarin) by schools, up by 26 programs in 2012.

Figure 1.1: Total enrolments in six most-studied languages, 2006–12*

*Note that these enrolments include government primary and secondary school students and all students studying through the VSL, including distance education.

Table 1.2: Number of primary and secondary level programs, by language, 2012 Language Number of

schools offering

language*

Primary level

programs

Secondary level

programs

Total number of programs

Change from 2011 (number of programs)

Indonesian 247 161 98 259 -9


2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120

20,000

40,000

60,000

80,000

100,000

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese

French

German

Chinese (Mandarin)

Italian 230 166 69 235 -24

Japanese 217 140 85 225 -18

French 158 80 81 161 -20

Chinese (Mandarin) 154 108 47 155 26

German 104 53 56 109 -11

Auslan 47 42 5 47 -1

Spanish 22 19 4 23 5

Greek 20 13 7 19 -2

Vietnamese 14 6 8 14 0

Arabic 7 3 4 7 -1

Aboriginal Languages 6 2 4 6 5

Turkish 6 5 1 6 1

Macedonian 5 2 3 5 0

Korean 4 4 0 4 2

Latin 2 0 2 2 0

Classical Greek 1 0 1 1 0

Dutch 1 1 0 1 0

Hindi 1 1 0 1 1

Karen 1 1 0 1 -2

Portuguese 1 1 0 1 1

Serbian 1 1 0 1 1

*Note that the second column counts the number of schools teaching each language, while the other columns count program numbers. If a P-9 or P-12 school offers a Languages program at both primary and secondary levels, it is counted in both the Primary level programs column and the Secondary level programs column. Hence, the totals in the Number of schools offering language column is sometimes less than the Total number of programs column.

Overview 13

Trends in Languages Programs in Victorian Government Primary Schools (excluding VSL)There was a continual decline in the number of government primary schools providing Languages programs between 2006 and 2012 (Figure 1.2), along with a concomitant decline in student enrolments. The number of schools providing a Languages program declined from 82.9% in 2006 to 60.1% in 2012. The decline in Languages programs was relatively consistent across all year levels (Figure 3.1). Concurrently, the percentage of students studying Languages at the primary level declined from 79.5% in 2006 to 55.5% in 2012 (Figure 3.3). However, as is noted in the Preface, Cultural Awareness and Limited Language Programs are excluded from this 2012 report. This exclusion contributes significantly to this decline in the number of schools offering Languages programs and in the number of students studying languages between 2011 and 2012.

The number of primary schools providing each language fluctuated between 2006 and 2012. As can be seen in Figure 1.3, of the six most-studied languages, Chinese (Mandarin) was the only language with increased provision between 2006 and 2012. The number of primary schools offering Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, French and German declined over the same period.

Figure 1.2: Number and percentage of primary schools providing a Languages program, 2006–12


2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120

200

400

600

800

1,000

1,200

1,04582.9% 972

77.4%947

75.5%88071% 847

69.3% 78064.5% 727

60.1%

Figure 1.3: Number of primary schools offering the six most-studied languages, 2006-12

Trends in Languages Programs in Victorian Government Secondary Schools (excluding VSL)The percentage of secondary schools offering a language program remained stable between 2007 and 2012 (Figure 1.4). Over the same time frame, the percentage of students studying a language at the secondary level decreased from 48.2% in 2006 to 42.4% in 2009 but remained relatively stable between 2010 (41.1%) and 2012 (41.7%) (Table 4.2). One of the most notable decreases in enrolments over time has been at the Year 9 and 10 levels, however, enrolments increased by 6.3% at the Year 9 level and by 7.8% at the Year 10 level between 2011 and 2012 (Table 4.2 and Figure 4.3).

Figure 1.4: Number and percentage of secondary schools providing a Languages program, 2006–12

Trends 15

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120

50

100

150

200

250

300

Italian

Indonesian

Japanese

French

German

Chinese (Mandarin)

The number of secondary schools providing each language fluctuated between 2006 and 2012. As can be seen in Figure 1.5, of the six most-studied languages, Chinese (Mandarin) was the only language with increased provision between 2006 and 2012. The number of secondary schools offering Indonesian, Japanese and French fluctuated over the same time frame, but remained relatively stable between 2008 and 2012, while the number of secondary schools offering Italian (-11.5%) and German (-12.5%) declined between 2009 and 2012.

Figure 1.5: Number of secondary schools offering the six most-studied languages, 2006-12


2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120

100

200

300289

92.9% 27288.3%

27389.2%

27587.6%

27286.6%

27787.4%

27686.5%

Chart Title

The percentage of students attending government secondary schools who include a language in their VCE course of study has remained stable over a number of years, standing at 17.3% in 2012 (Table 4.6). This figure includes government school students who completed a Unit 4 Languages study through their government school, the VSL or a CLS.

When looking at enrolment changes for specific languages, among the six most-studied languages in government secondary schools, Chinese (Mandarin) is the only language to have experienced a continuing increase in student enrolments. Enrolments in French, Italian, Japanese and German have fluctuated but remained stable between 2010 and 2012. Enrolments in Indonesian have also fluctuated but increased notably between 2010 and 2012 (Figure 4.6). Overall, the six most-studied languages at the secondary level in 2012 were French, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, German and Chinese (Mandarin).

Trends 17

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

Indonesian

Japanese

French

Italian

German

Chinese (Mandarin)

Language Profiles

ItalianIn 2012, 61,949 students studied Italian in Victorian government schools. It was taught by 304 teachers in 22.8% of primary schools and 25.1% of secondary schools with Languages programs. Overall, Italian was offered in 230 primary and secondary schools, as well as through 13 VSL centres, including through distance education. In 2012, 254 students eligible to graduate from secondary school had completed Italian study to Year 12 level (Unit 4). Table 1.3 provides student enrolments in Italian between 2006 and 2012.

Table 1.3: Enrolment trends in Italian, 2006–122006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Primary schools 71,560 66,948 60,703 58,984 55,783 53,114 42,848

VSL primary 75 49 184 132 203 198 167

Secondary schools 21,505 21,873 18,836 18,842 17,979 19,105 18,499

VSL secondary 212 209 522 481 456 468 435

Total 93,352 89,079 80,245 78,439 74,421 72,885 61,949

IndonesianIn 2012, 54,476 students studied Indonesian in Victorian government. It was taught by 289 teachers in 22.1% of primary schools and 35.6% of secondary schools with Languages programs. Overall, Indonesian was offered in 246 primary and secondary schools, as well as through three VSL centres, including through distance education. In 2012, 276 students eligible to graduate from secondary school had completed Indonesian study to Year 12 level (Unit 4). Table 1.4 provides student enrolments in Indonesian between 2006 and 2012.

Table 1.4: Enrolment trends in Indonesian, 2006–122006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Primary schools 61,513 51,141 48,076 43,186 39,049 35,745 35,692

VSL primary 3 1 5 8 2 6 5


VSL secondary 252 245 390 326 369 377 404

Total 83,596 71,538 66,905 61,369 56,057 53,140 54,476

JapaneseIn 2012, 53,099 students studied Japanese in Victorian government schools. It was taught by 277 teachers in 19.3% of primary schools and 30.9% of secondary schools with Languages programs. Overall, Japanese was offered in 217 primary and secondary schools, as well as through eight VSL centres, including through distance education. In 2012, 530 students eligible to graduate from secondary school had completed Japanese study to Year 12 level (Unit 4). Table 1.5 provides student enrolments in Japanese between 2006 and 2012.

Table 1.5: Enrolment trends in Japanese, 2006–122006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Primary schools 48,347 46,193 45,395 41,798 43,183 38,108 35,050

VSL primary 21 32 57 55 70 80 90


VSL secondary 435 410 763 717 853 767 714

Total 68,930 65,497 66,362 61,620 62,221 56,557 53,099


FrenchIn 2012, 34,355 students studied French in Victorian government schools. It was taught by 276 teachers in 11% of primary schools and 29.5% of secondary schools with Languages programs. Overall, French was offered in 276 primary and secondary schools, as well as through 10 VSL centres, including through distance education. In 2012, 589 students eligible to graduate from secondary school had completed French study to Year 12 level (Unit 4). Table 1.6 provides student enrolments in French between 2006 and 2012.

Table 1.6: Enrolment trends in French, 2006–122006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Primary schools 17,644 17,614 17,852 17,785 18,969 18,562 14,701

VSL primary 37 27 85 93 118 103 114


VSL secondary 368 322 656 608 656 622 626

Total 39,814 38,315 39,375 38,159 39,474 38,917 34,355

Chinese (Mandarin)In 2012, 29,308 students studied Chinese (Mandarin) in Victorian government schools. It was taught by 150 teachers in 14.9% of primary schools and 17.1% of secondary schools with Languages programs. Overall, Chinese (Mandarin) was offered in 153 primary and secondary schools, as well as through 22 VSL centres, including through distance education. In 2012, 1,334 students eligible to graduate from secondary school had completed Chinese (Mandarin) study to Year 12 level (Unit 4). Table 1.7 provides student enrolments in Chinese (Mandarin) between 2006 and 2012.

Table 1.7: Enrolment trends in Chinese (Mandarin), 2006–12

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Primary schools 8,988 9,163 10,113 12,333 14,292 16,752 19,368

VSL primary 907 895 1,300 1,230 1,314 1,337 1,325


VSL secondary 991 932 1,497 1,441 1,430 1,398 1,364

Total 15,007 14,807 17,031 19,730 22,460 25,732 29,308

GermanIn 2012, 20,488 students studied German in Victorian government schools. It was taught by 158 teachers in 7.3% of primary schools and 20.4% of secondary schools with Languages programs. Overall, German was offered in 104 primary and secondary schools, as well as through eight VSL centres, including through distance education. In 2012, 333 students eligible to graduate from secondary school had completed German study to Year 12 level (Unit 4). Table 1.8 provides student enrolments in German between 2006 and 2012.

Table 1.8: Enrolment trends in German, 2006–12

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Primary schools 18,628 16,802 16,760 15,555 13,987 11,653 9,077

VSL primary 32 26 66 56 54 40 35


VSL secondary 241 268 372 388 430 452 427

Total 34,665 30,916 30,666 29,832 26,287 22,981 20,488


AuslanIn 2012, 9,629 students studied Auslan in Victorian government schools. It was taught by 37 teachers in 5.8% of primary schools and 1.8% of secondary schools with Languages programs. Overall, Auslan was offered in 48 primary and secondary schools. In 2012, 45 students eligible to graduate from secondary school had completed Auslan study to Year 12 level (Unit 4). Table 1.9 provides student enrolments in Auslan between 2006 and 2012.

Table 1.9: Enrolment trends in Auslan, 2006–12

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Primary schools 6,847 7,070 7,469 9,282 10,722 11,017 9,222

VSL primary 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Secondary schools 277 246 401 577 821 813 407

VSL secondary 0 0 9 5 0 0 0

Total 7,124 7,316 7,879 9,864 11,543 11,830 9,629

SpanishIn 2012, 4,635 students studied Spanish in Victorian government schools. It was taught by 13 teachers in 2.6% of primary schools and 1.5% of secondary schools with Languages programs. Overall, Spanish was offered in 21 primary and secondary schools, as well as through 12 VSL centres, including through distance education. In 2012, 47 students eligible to graduate from secondary school had completed Spanish study to Year 12 level (Unit 4). Table 1.10 provides student enrolments in Spanish between 2006 and 2012.

Table 1.10: Enrolment trends in Spanish, 2006–12

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Primary schools 1,479 1,808 1,653 1,819 2,260 2,377 3,581

VSL primary 101 90 175 206 185 197 210

Secondary schools 435 1,083 1,041 1,280 1,327 369 460

VSL secondary 132 157 404 408 379 403 384

Total 2,147 3,138 3,273 3,713 4,151 3,346 4,635

GreekIn 2012, 4,169 students studied Greek in Victorian government schools. It was taught by 28 teachers in 1.7% of primary schools and 2.5% of secondary schools with Languages programs. Overall, Greek was offered in 20 primary and secondary schools, as well as through 14 VSL centres, including through distance education. In 2012, 105 students eligible to graduate from secondary school had completed Greek study to Year 12 level (Unit 4). Table 1.11 provides student enrolments in Greek between 2006 and 2012.

Table 1.11: Enrolment trends in Greek, 2006–12

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Primary schools 3,169 3,104 3,187 3,026 2,656 2,187 2,103

VSL primary 547 456 664 655 660 700 728

Secondary schools 873 766 795 915 1,115 953 1,071

VSL secondary 192 127 241 216 205 251 267

Total 4,781 4,453 4,887 4,812 4,636 4,091 4,169


Vietnamese In 2012, 2,992 students studied Vietnamese in Victorian government schools. It was taught by 18 teachers in 0.8% of primary schools and 2.9% of secondary schools with Languages programs. Overall, Vietnamese was offered in five primary and secondary schools, as well as through 11 VSL centres. In 2012, 368 students eligible to graduate from secondary school had completed Vietnamese study to Year 12 level (Unit 4). Table 1.12 provides student enrolments in Vietnamese between 2006 and 2012.

Table 1.12: Enrolment trends in Vietnamese, 2006–12

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Primary schools 1,638 1,694 1,292 898 736 472 437

VSL primary 560 510 1,126 1,042 1,041 1,021 1,061


VSL secondary 585 542 1,030 1,014 1,045 989 932

Total 3,353 3,309 4,119 3,385 3,197 2,966 2,992

Turkish In 2012, 1,816 students studied Turkish in Victorian government schools. It was taught by seven teachers in 0.4% of primary schools and 0.3% of secondary schools with Languages programs. Overall, Turkish was offered in six primary and secondary schools, as well as through nine VSL centres. In 2012, 102 students eligible to graduate from secondary school had completed Turkish study to Year 12 level (Unit 4). Table 1.13 provides student enrolments in Turkish between 2006 and 2012.

Table 1.13: Enrolment trends in Turkish, 2006–12

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Primary schools 673 600 583 1,202 652 836 733

VSL primary 600 537 596 486 468 488 431


VSL secondary 582 424 559 435 439 413 398

Total 2,160 1,866 1,959 2,344 1,845 1,991 1,816

Arabic In 2012, 1,284 students studied Arabic in Victorian government schools. It was taught by 8 teachers in 0.2% of primary schools and 1.3% of secondary schools with Languages programs. Overall, Arabic was offered in seven primary and secondary schools, as well as through 11 VSL centres. In 2012, 69 students eligible to graduate from secondary school had completed Arabic study to Year 12 level (Unit 4). Table 1.14 provides student enrolments in Arabic between 2006 and 2012.

Table 1.14: Enrolment trends in Arabic, 2006–12

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Primary schools 535 922 645 928 764 443 459

VSL primary 288 306 383 354 391 358 285


VSL secondary 224 157 337 334 358 362 326

Total 1,479 1,808 1,785 1,972 1,883 1,578 1,284


2. Summary of Findings

Victorian Government Primary SchoolsSchools Seven hundred and twenty-seven (727) government primary schools provided a

Languages program in 2012, 60.1% of the total of 1,209 primary schools.1 Across all schools, Languages study was most commonly offered at Year 5 (52.4%) and Year 6 (53.1%) (Figure 3.1 and Table 3.1).

Italian was the most widely-taught language in Victorian government primary schools, with 166 or 22.8% of schools providing a Languages program, followed by Indonesian (161 schools, 22.1%), Japanese (140 schools, 19.3%), Chinese (Mandarin) (108 schools, 14.9%), French (80 schools, 11%), German (53 schools, 7.3%) (Table 3.2). Appendices 2 and 4 provide details of primary schools and the Languages programs offered in 2012.

Students A total of 174,693 primary students studied a language in 2012, representing 55.5% of

government primary school students. Languages study was lowest at the Prep level, where 47.2% of students studied a language, while the highest concentration of students studying a language was at Years 4 (60.9%) and 5 (61.8%) (Table 3.3 and Figure 3.4).

Languages taught Twenty languages were offered in government primary schools in 2012 (excluding the

VSL). Aboriginal Languages, Hindi, Portuguese and Serbian, which were not offered in 2011, were taught in primary schools in 2012.

The seven most-studied languages in 2012 were Italian (accounting for 24.5% of enrolments), Indonesian (20.4%), Japanese (20.1%), Chinese (Mandarin) (11.1%), French (8.4%), Auslan (5.3%) and German (5.2%) (Table 3.4 and Figure 3.5).

Contact timeThe time spent by primary students on language learning varied considerably according to the type of program and the resources available to schools. Contact time ranged from 10 minutes to 300 minutes per week, with an average of 55.9 minutes per week (excluding Bilingual programs in which Languages programs were provided for between 450 and 750 minutes per week). Excluding Bilingual programs, only 0.4% of Languages programs consisted of at least 150 minutes of teaching per week, which is the minimum time recommended by DEECD (Figures 3.7 and 3.8).

Program type Three types of programs were considered in this data, Languages programs, Content and Language Integrated Learning programs (CLIL) and Bilingual/Immersion programs. The majority of primary school students, 86.9%, were in Language programs, with 12.1% of students learning languages through Content and Languages Integrated Learning (CLIL) programs. Bilingual / immersion programs accounted for 1% of enrolments. Cultural Awareness and Limited Language programs were not considered in this report (Figure 3.9).

Regional provision of languages In 2013, DEECD moved to deliver educational services through a four-region model,

replacing the previous nine-region model. Regional data has been analysed based on the four new regions. See the Regional provision sections in the primary and secondary sections for further details.

At the primary level, between 12 and 15 languages were offered in each of the four regions, with Italian the most-studied language in the South-Western and North-Western Victoria regions, and Japanese the most studied language in the North-Eastern and South-Eastern Victoria regions.

1 All Victorian government schools with primary and secondary enrolments except special schools and English language schools are included in this survey. Multi-campus schools are regarded as one school. Schools providing both primary and secondary levels are included in both primary and secondary analyses as appropriate.


Victorian Government Secondary Schools

Schools In 2012, 275 or 86.2% of the 319 government secondary schools provided Languages

programs at one or more year levels (Figure 1.4 and Table 4.1).

Of the schools providing a Languages program, 43.5% provided a continuous language sequence from Year 7 to Year 12. The next highest percentage was for programs from Years 7 to 10, accounting for 13.1% of enrolments in Languages programs (Figure 4.2).

Indonesian was the most widely-taught language across Victorian government secondary schools, (98 or 35.6% of schools with Language programs), with Japanese (85 schools, 30.9%), French (81 schools, 29.5%), Italian (69 schools, 25.1%), German (56 schools, 20.4%), and Chinese (Mandarin) (47 schools, 17.1%), representing the six most-studied languages in 2012 (Table 4.1). Appendices 3 and 5 provide details of schools and the Languages programs offered in 2012.

Students A total of 91,453 students studied Languages in Victorian government secondary schools

in 2012, representing 41.7% of full-time students at Victorian government schools (Table 4.2 and Figure 4.4). A further 3,409 student enrolments were recorded for students studying an additional language (for example, through taster programs), bringing the total number of student enrolments to 94,862 (Table 4.3).

Among the students who were eligible to graduate from VCE in 2012, 17.3% completed a language to the Year 12 level (Unit 4) (Table 4.6).

Languages taughtSixteen languages were taught in Victorian government secondary schools in 2012. The six most-studied languages were French, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, German and Chinese (Mandarin) (Table 4.3).

Male/female enrolmentsIn 2012, male students of Languages slightly outnumbered female students in Years 7 and 8, but by Year 12, females accounted for 64.3% of Languages students (Figure 4.7).

Languages study at the VCE levelAmong the students eligible to complete Year 12 in 2012, 4,608 or 17.3% of students completed a Languages course to Unit 4 level during their schooling, including through the VSL and CLS (Table 4.6). In total, 37 languages were studied, with the five most-studied languages at VCE level being Chinese (Mandarin), French, Japanese, Vietnamese and German (Table 4.7).

Contact time The average weekly contact time for Languages programs was 143.7 minutes at Year 7,

increasing to 230.2 minutes per week at Year 12.

In 2012, 74.2% of Year 7 Languages students and 76.1% of Year 8 Languages students were in programs that ran for a minimum of 140 minutes per week. At Years 11 and 12, 98.1% and 96.8% of Languages students, respectively, studied for a minimum of 190 minutes per week (Figure 4.8).

Program typeAmong Languages students at the secondary level, 97% studied a language through Languages programs, with the remaining 3% studying through Content and Languages Integrated Learning (CLIL) programs (Table 4.8).

Regional provision of Languages From the beginning of 2013, DEECD moved to deliver educational services through a

four-region model. Regional data has been analysed based on the four new regions. See the Regional provision sections in the primary and secondary sections for further details.

Summary of findings 23

In 2012, Italian was the most-studied language in the South-Western and North-Western Victoria regions, French was the most-studied language in the North-Eastern Victoria region, while Japanese was the most-studied language in the South-Eastern Victoria region (Table 4.9).

In 2012, 44.5% of secondary students in metropolitan areas studied a language, while the percentage in regional areas was 35.1%. The greatest disparity between metropolitan and regional provision occurred at the Year 9 level where 53.6% of metropolitan students and 27.6% of regional students undertook the study of a language. By the Year 12 level, this disparity had decreased to 7.6% of metropolitan students and 4.3% of regional students (Figure 4.9 and Table 4.10). These figures relate to students enrolled in a Year 12 Languages program at their day school. Overall, including enrolments at the VSL and CLS, 17.3% of government school students had completed a Languages course to Year 12 level (Unit 4) by the time they graduated from secondary school (Table 4.6). See the Languages Study at the VCE Level section for further detail.

Teachers of Languages in Victorian Government Schools There were 1,587 Languages teachers with some level of Languages qualification

teaching in government primary and secondary schools in 2012 (Table 5.1). A further 134 Languages qualified teachers were working in primary and secondary schools in 2012 in areas other than the teaching of Languages, or were on leave.

Teachers of Asian languages represented 46.5% of Languages teachers, European language teachers accounted for 50% of teachers, while the remaining 3.5% of Languages teachers taught Aboriginal Languages, Arabic, Auslan and Turkish. Teachers of Italian comprised the largest group of teachers of European languages at 19.2% of all teachers, while teachers of Indonesian comprised the largest group of teachers of Asian languages at 18.2% of all teachers (Table 5.1).

In 2012, 80.7% of Languages teachers were female. Males represented a slightly higher percentage of teachers of Asian languages (20.7%) than of European languages (17.9%) (Table 5.1).

Bilingual Programs in Victorian Government SchoolsIn 2012, one special school and eleven primary schools offered designated bilingual programs where students are taught in or through the language for between 450 and 700 minutes per week (Table 6.1).

The Victorian School of Languages In 2012, 50 languages were provided across 40 Victorian School of Languages centres,

30 in metropolitan areas and 10 in regional areas. Appendix 6 provides a list of VSL centres and the languages each centre offered in 2012.

Of the 50 languages offered, 48 were studied at the primary level, and 47 were studied at the secondary level (Table 7.1). Students were provided with approximately three hours per week of instruction, mainly on Saturday mornings.

In 2012, 15,586 students from government, Catholic and independent schools, as well as home-schooled students studied Languages through the VSL. Enrolments totalled 6,811 at the primary level and 8,775 at the secondary level. These figures include enrolments through distance education (Table 7.1 and Figure 7.1).

Overall in 2012, government school students accounted for 68% of enrolments at the VSL, with students from Catholic and independent schools and home-schooled students accounting for the remaining 32% of enrolments (Figure 7.2).

VSL Distance Education The VSL offered programs in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Classical Greek, French,

German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin and Spanish by distance education in 2012.


There were 1,554 students from all educational sectors enrolled in Languages study through distance education in 2012 (17.7% of all secondary level enrolments at the VSL) (Table 7.2).

Community Languages SchoolsCommunity Languages Schools are conducted by incorporated community-based, not-for-profit organisations accredited for funding by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. In 2012, there were 181 accredited Community Languages Schools operating throughout Victoria, providing programs in 43 languages to 36,964 students (Table 8.1).

Summary of findings 25

3. Victorian Government Primary SchoolsSchoolsIn 2012, 1,209 government schools offered primary level education in Victoria, with 727 or 60.1%

of these schools providing some form of Languages program. This figure represents a decrease of 53 schools in comparison to the previous year. It is important to refer to the caveat in the Preface relating to changes to the definition of Languages Programs in 2012 when considering this decline. There were 482 schools without a Languages program at the primary level, including twelve schools providing primary and secondary schooling (e.g. P-9, P-12 or Middle

Years schools) which offered a Languages program at the secondary level, but not at the primary level. The most frequent reasons why a Languages program was not provided were an inability to recruit suitable Languages teachers (60.5%) and being a small school and/or in a rural location (49.9%). Appendix 7 lists schools without a Languages program in 2012, and indicates whether or not they offered a cultural program.

The number of students studying a language decreased by 9.3%, down 17,803 students between 2011 and 2012. This decrease continues a downward trend at the primary level, where enrolments declined 28.6% overall between 2006 and 2012 (Table 3.3).

Although there were 727 government primary schools providing Languages programs, Languages study was not necessarily offered at all year levels within each of these schools. As can be seen in Figure 3.1 and Table 3.1, Languages provision was highest at the senior primary levels, from Years 3 to 6 (between 50.2% and 53.1% of students). Provision of Languages was lower from Prep to Year 2 (between 44.8% and 46.1% of students). Since 2006, there has been a notable decline in the number of schools providing a Languages program, although this decline was not limited to particular year levels, but consistent across all year levels (Figure 3.1 and Table 3.1).

Figure 3.1: Percentage of primary schools providing Languages programs, by year level, 2006–12*


2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 201230%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Year 6

Year 5

Year 4

Year 3

Year 2

Year 1

Prep

*Across all Victorian government primary schools

Victorian government primary schools 27

Table 3.1: Number and percentage of primary schools with Languages programs, by year level, 2006–12*

Year Prep Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

2006 872(69.2%)

908(72.0%)

918(72.8%)

994(78.8%)

1,006(79.8%)

1,017(80.7%)

1,017(80.7%)

2007 785(62.5%)

812(64.6%)

835(66.5%)

907(72.2%)

925(73.6%)

944(75.2%)

935(74.4%)

2008 747(59.6%)

779(62.1%)

795(63.4%)

863(68.8%)

871(69.5%)

910(72.6%)

912(72.7%)

2009 689(55.6%)

718(57.9%)

733(59.1%)

801(64.6%)

811(65.4%)

838(67.6%)

842(67.9%)

2010 653(53.5%)

691(56.6%)

696(57%)

752(61.6%)

772(63.2%)

800(65.5%)

797(65.3%)

2011 622(51.4%)

652(53.9%)

671(55.5%)

707(58.4%)

721(59.6%)

748(61.8%)

744(61.5%)

2012 542(44.8%)

541(44.7%)

557(46.1%)

607(50.2%)

612(50.6%)

634(52.4%)

642(53.1)

*As a percentage of all schools.

In 2012, although there were 727 primary schools (60.1%) providing a Languages program, many of those schools did not offer a Languages program at all year levels. As a result, the percentage of schools providing a language at each year level in 2012 was lower than the overall percentage, as can be seen in Table 3.1.

Among the schools providing a Languages program, 64.7% ran continuous programs from Prep to Year 6 (down from 75.4% in 2011), with a further 6.1% of schools running programs from Years 3 to 6. The remaining 29.2% of programs, as detailed in Figure 3.2, consisted of non-sequential or partial sequences (Figure 3.2).

Figure 3.2: Sequences of Languages programs in primary schools, 2012

.


Other

Prep only

Years 5 to 6

Years 3 to 6

Years 1 to 6

Prep to Year 6

0% 20% 40% 60% 80%

16.6%

4.4%

4.1%

6.1%

4.1%

64.7%

Twenty languages were offered at the primary level in government schools in 2012. Four languages - Aboriginal Languages, Hindi, Portuguese and Serbian, which were not taught in 2011, were taught in 2012. The number of schools providing Chinese (Mandarin) programs increased markedly in 2012, up 22 programs, while Spanish programs increased by six.

Table 3.2: Number and percentage of primary level programs, by language, 2012

Language No. %*Change

from 2011 (number of programs)

Italian 166 22.8 -21

Indonesian 161 22.1 -11

Japanese 140 19.3 -18

Chinese (Mandarin) 108 14.9 +22

French 80 11.0 -18

German 53 7.3 -8

Auslan 42 5.8 0

Spanish 19 2.6 +6

Greek 13 1.8 +1

Vietnamese 6 0.8 +1

Turkish 5 0.7 +1

Korean 4 0.6 +2

Arabic 3 0.4 -1

Aboriginal Languages 2 0.3 +2

Macedonian 2 0.3 0

Dutch 1 0.1 0

Hindi 1 0.1 +1

Karen 1 0.1 -2

Portuguese 1 0.1 +1

Serbian 1 0.1 +1

*As a percentage of government primary schools with Languages programs. Note that some schools offered more than one language.

Students In 2012, 55.5% or 174,693 students studied a language at the primary level in government schools

(Figures 3.3 and Table 3.3). Although the percentage of students studying a language declined from 62.3% in 2011 (a decrease of 17,803 students), a majority of this decline can be attributed to the refocusing of Languages programs requirements, as is outlined in the Preface. Again, although Figure 3.3 shows a steeper decline in enrolments between 2011 and 2012 when compared to the historical timeline, this change is significantly explained by the redefinition of Languages programs.

Comparative enrolment numbers and percentages for 2006 to 2012, listed by year level, are presented in Table 3.3 and Figure 3.4.

Figure 3.3: Percentage of primary school students studying Languages, 2006–12


The total number of primary students (2012 mid-year census, excluding students in special and English language schools and ungraded students) was 315,029.8 (equivalent full-time of students).

Table 3.3: Primary level Languages enrolments by year level and as a percentageof total student population, 2006–12

Year level

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Prep30,612

(68.9%)

27, 283

(61.8%)

26,607

(60.5%)

26,504

(58.8%)

25,673

(57.1%)

25,306

(53.9%)

23,425

(47.2%)

Year 131,825

(73%)

28,799

(66.2%)

27,496

(64.1%)

26,905

(61.6%)

27,090

(60.9%)

25,433

(57%)

23,743

(50.8%)

Year 232,275

(73.8%)

29,979

(69.1%)

28,892

(66.7%)

27,196

(63.1%)

27,185

(62.2%)

26,412

(58.9%)

22,963

(51.3%)

Year 336,707

(83.3%)

33,853

(77.3%)

32,298

(73.8%)

30,776

(70.8%)

29,930

(69.4%)

28,429

(65.3%)

26,084

(58.6%)

Year 437,168

(84.2%)

34,422

(78.7%)

32,275

(73.9%)

31,452

(71.5%)

31,053

(71.4%)

28,533

(66.2%)

26,578

(60.9%)

Year 537,969

(85.1%)

35,637

(81.3%)

34,073

(78.3%)

32,190

(74.2%)

32,141

(73.7%)

29,288

(68.1%)

26,295

(61.8%)

Year 638,398

(88%)

35,341

(81.3%)

34,098

(77.7%)

32,463

(74.3%)

31,943

(73.7%)

29,365

(67.6%)

25,605

(59.4%)

Total244,504

(79.5%)

225,314

(73.6%)

215,739

(70.7%)

207,486

(67.7%)

205,015

(66.8%)

192,496

(62.3%)

174,693

(55.5%)


2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

79.5 73.670.7

67.7 66.862.3

55.5

Figure 3.4: Primary level Languages enrolments, by year level, 2006–12

Languages Taught Twenty languages were taught in government primary schools in 2012 (Table 3.4), with primary

school students also studying 48 languages through the VSL (out of a total of 50 languages available at the VSL), including via distance education at the Year 6 level. Overall, primary school students studied a total of 50 languages through schools and the VSL in 2012 (Table 1.1).

In primary schools, Italian retained the highest number of student enrolments (42,848 enrolments) in 2012. Indonesian (35,692), Japanese (35,050), Chinese (Mandarin) (19,368), French (14,701) and Auslan (9,222) rounded out the six most-studied languages, with these languages accounting for 89.8% of all primary Languages enrolments in government schools. The other languages taught in primary schools, in order of enrolment numbers, were German, Spanish, Greek, Turkish, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, Hindi, Macedonian, Aboriginal Languages, Dutch, Karen, Serbian and Portuguese. Table 3.4 provides details of student enrolments by language and year level. Figure 3.5 provides a proportional representation of Languages enrolments in government primary schools. Note that Figures 3.5 and 3.6 contain representations of the seven most-studied languages, as opposed to the six most-studied languages, in 2012. German has


2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 201220,000

25,000

30,000

35,000

40,000

Year 6

Year 5

Year 4

Year 3

Year 2

Year 1

Prep

been the sixth most studied language for many years but enrolments in Auslan overtook German in 2012. Seven languages have been presented to provide historical context in these figures.


Table 3.4: Primary enrolments, by language and year level, 2012Language Prep Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Total %

Italian 5,850 5,743 5,651 6,284 6,199 6,330 6,791 42,848 24.5

Indonesian 3,728 4,549 3,919 5,804 6,688 6,091 4,913 35,692 20.4

Japanese 4,580 4,655 4,797 5,197 5,025 5,566 5,230 35,050 20.1

Chinese (Mandarin)

3,021 2,711 2,548 2,909 2,812 2,595 2,772 19,368 11.1

French 2,141 2,048 2,144 1,920 2,021 2,142 2,285 14,701 8.4

Auslan 1,723 1,509 1,390 1,346 1,210 997 1,047 9,222 5.3

German 1,213 1,173 1,095 1,387 1,349 1,413 1,447 9,077 5.2

Spanish 491 638 568 538 504 436 406 3,581 2

Greek 294 362 333 262 349 261 242 2,103 1.2

Turkish 27 29 180 148 123 122 104 733 0.4

Korean 98 117 124 98 98 102 89 726 0.4

Arabic 73 72 77 66 72 43 56 459 0.3

Vietnamese 63 49 40 39 36 100 110 437 0.3

Hindi 54 59 69 55 58 40 61 396 0.2

Macedonian 21 19 24 18 21 8 21 132 0.1

Aboriginal Languages

7 5 0 5 8 35 16 76 <0.1

Dutch 5 5 4 7 5 7 6 39 <0.1

Karen 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 36 <0.1

Serbian 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 14 <0.1

Portuguese 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 <0.1

Total 23,425 23,743 22,963 26,084 26,578 26,295 25,605 174,693 100


Figure 3.5: Primary level enrolments, by language, 2012

Figure 3.6 outlines long-term the changes in enrolments for the seven most-studied languages in 2012. The most noticeable trend was the continuing decline in enrolments for Italian, Japanese and German, although enrolments in Indonesian increased slightly after a long period of decline. Enrolments in French declined in 2012 for the first time in a number of years, and enrolments in Chinese (Mandarin) continued to grow. Enrolments in Auslan have fluctuated over the same time period.

Figure 3.6: Primary enrolments for the seven most-studied languages, 2006–12


Italian, 42,848

Indonesian; 35,692

Japanese, 35,050

Chinese (Mandarin); 19,368

French; 14,701

Auslan; 9,222

German; 9,077

Other, 8,735


2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120

20,000

40,000

60,000

80,000

Italian

Indonesian

Japanese

Chinese (Mandarin)

French

Auslan

German

Contact TimeThe amount of time primary students spent on Languages learning in 2012 ranged from 10 minutes

to 300 minutes per week, with an average of 55.9 minutes per week. This data excludes the bilingual programs, which provided between 450 and 750 minutes per week. See the Bilingual Program section for further details. The largest proportion of students, 84.2%, was in programs of between 31 and 60 minutes per week, while only 0.4% of students were in programs for the recommended minimum of 150 minutes per week (Figure 3.7). Figure 3.8 provides the average contact time per week between 2006 and 2012. While minutes per week spent on Languages study decreased from 64.6 minutes per week in 2007, it remained relatively stable between 2008 and 2012.

Figure 3.7: Enrolments in primary Languages programs, by minutes per week, 2012

Figure 3.8: Average minutes of Languages study per week, 2006–12


2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120

30

60

90

120

150

62.564.6

57.5 57.156.2 55.3 55.9

0 to 30 minutes 31 to 60 minutes 61 to 90 minutes 91 to 149 minutes 150 minutes or more

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

9.6%

84.2%

3.1% 2.7% 0.4%

Program TypesLanguages programs in Victoria are classified as one of the following three types.

1. A Languages program, which focuses on the teaching and learning of the target language and understanding the connections between language and culture.

2. A Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) program which teaches content from another curriculum area, combined with explicit teaching of the target language with a focus on the vocabulary and structures required for the additional curriculum area. Content may include all or part of one or more curriculum areas.

3. A Bilingual or immersion program which teach at least two key learning areas, in addition to the Language, in the target language. In 2012, there were 14 designated bilingual programs in 12 schools that were required to provide at least 450 minutes of tuition per week in the target language.

In 2012, 86.9% of primary languages students were in Languages programs, 12.1% were in a CLIL program and 1% were in a Bilingual or immersion program (Figure 3.9). The percentage of Languages students in programs focused on language acquisition differed according to the language being studied. See Table 3.5, following, for details.

Cultural Awareness and Limited Language programs were not considered in this report.

Figure 3.9: Primary Languages enrolments (%), by program type, 2012


0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

86.9%

12.1%

1%

Languages programs

Content and Languages In-tegrated Learning programs

Bilingual/ Immersion programs

Table 3.5: Primary enrolments, by language and program type, 2012

Language Languages program

CLIL Bilingual/ immersion

Total

Italian 37,389 5,459 0 42,848

Indonesian 29,827 5,769 96 35,692

Japanese 30,984 3,643 423 35,050

Chinese (Mandarin) 17,961 1,273 134 19,368

French 13,161 1,046 494 14,701

Auslan 7,099 2,017 106 9,222

German 8,225 610 242 9,077

Spanish 2,761 820 0 3,581

Greek 1,744 298 61 2,103

Turkish 733 0 0 733

Korean 600 126 0 726

Arabic 459 0 0 459

Vietnamese 252 0 185 437

Hindi 396 0 0 396

Macedonian 44 0 88 132

Aboriginal Languages 76 0 0 76

Dutch 39 0 0 39

Karen 0 36 0 36

Serbian 14 0 0 14

Portuguese 3 0 0 3

Total 151,767 21,097 1,829 174,693

Percentages 86.9 12.1 1 100


Regional Provision of Languages ProgramsFrom the beginning of 2013, the Victorian DEECD moved to deliver educational services through a

four-region model. Regional data has been analysed based on the four new regions, which encompasses the former nine regions as follows:

South-Western Victoria (SWV) – encompasses the Barwon South Western, Grampians and Western Metropolitan Regions

North Western Victoria (NWV) – encompasses the Loddon Mallee and Northern Metropolitan Regions

North-Eastern Victoria (NEV) – encompasses the Hume and Eastern Metropolitan Regions

South-Eastern Victoria (SEV) – encompasses the Gippsland and Southern Metropolitan Regions.

Although, 60.1% of government primary schools offered some form of Languages program in 2012, this varied across regions, as is indicated in Figure 3.10. Table 3.6, following, provides both school numbers and percentages for schools offering Languages programs at the primary level, across regions, in 2012.

Figure 3.10: Percentage of primary schools providing a Languages program, by region, 2012

South-Western Victoria

North-Western Victoria

North-Eastern Victoria

South-Eastern Victoria0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

62.354.2

70.4

52.6

Table 3.6: Primary schools providing Languages programs, by region, 2012

RegionSchools teaching

LanguagesTotal primary

schools% of primary schools

with Languages programs

South-Western Victoria 197 316 62.3

North-Western Victoria 147 271 54.2

North-Eastern Victoria 221 314 70.4

South-Eastern Victoria 162 308 52.6

Total 727 1,209 60.1


Table 3.7 following provides primary enrolments in Languages programs across the four regions in 2012. Between 12 and 15 were offered in all four regions, with Italian the most-studied language in the South-Western and North-Western Victoria regions, and Japanese the most-studied language in the North-Eastern and South-Eastern Victoria regions.

Table 3.7: Primary enrolments, by language and region, 2012Language SWV NWV NEV SEV Total

Italian 11,223 13,611 9,893 8,121 42,848

Indonesian 9,497 9,431 7,422 9,342 35,692

Japanese 8,995 1,641 12,554 11,860 35,050

Chinese (Mandarin) 3,733 1,380 10,512 3,743 19,368

French 1,934 2,185 4,346 6,236 14,701

Auslan 809 3,449 1,625 3,339 9,222

German 1,005 492 5,393 2,187 9,077

Spanish 647 0 1,208 1,726 3,581

Greek 56 1,263 414 370 2,103

Turkish 0 652 0 81 733

Korean 0 0 0 726 726

Arabic 59 400 0 0 459

Vietnamese 247 123 0 67 437

Hindi 0 0 0 396 396



Dutch 39 0 0 0 39

Karen 36 0 0 0 36

Serbian 0 0 0 14 14

Portuguese 0 0 3 0 3

Total 38,280 34,759 53,397 48,257 174,693


4. Victorian Government Secondary SchoolsSchoolsIn 2012, the number of government secondary schools providing Languages programs increased by two to 275 schools. This represents 86.2% of the 319 government schools teaching secondary level classes. There were 44 schools without a Languages program at the secondary level,

including ten P-9 or P-12 schools which offered a Languages program at the primary level, but not at the secondary level. Appendix 7 contains a list of schools without a Languages program in 2012, and indicates whether or not they offered a cultural program.

Of the secondary schools that offered Languages programs, provision was highest at the lower secondary level, with 92% of the 276 schools providing Languages programs at the Year 7 level. By the Year 11 and 12 levels, Languages provision had decreased to 52.2% and 53.3% of secondary schools with Languages programs respectively (Figure 4.1).

Of the secondary schools that offered Languages programs in 2012, 43.5% provided continuous programs from Years 7 to 12, enabling students the opportunity to study a language through to completion at school (Figure 4.2). A further 13.1% of schools offered Languages programs from Years 7 to 10. Note that around 6.5% of secondary schools, such as senior secondary schools, do not run from Years 7 to 12. Subsequently, as is noted in Figure 4.2, 4.4% of schools offered Languages programs at the senior secondary level only.

Figure 4.1: Percentage of secondary schools providing Languages programs, by year level, 2006–12*

*Among schools with Languages programs

Victorian government secondary schools 41

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

Year 12

Figure 4.2: Sequences of Languages programs in secondary schools*, 2012

*‘Other sequences’ refers to the provision of Languages programs at non-sequential year levels, or partial sequences.

Sixteen languages were taught in government secondary schools in 2012, with no changes to the languages offered in 2011. The number of schools offering Aboriginal Languages, Indonesian and Chinese (Mandarin) increased, while, among the most widely-taught languages, there was a decline in the number of schools offering German, Italian, French and Greek. See Table 4.1 for further details.

Table 4.1: Number and percentage of secondary programs, by language, 2012Language No. % * Change from

2011 (Number of programs)

Indonesian 98 35.6 2

Japanese 85 30.9 -

French 81 29.5 -2

Italian 69 25.1 -3

German 56 20.4 -3

Chinese (Mandarin) 47 17.1 4

Vietnamese 8 2.9 -1

Greek 7 2.5 -2

Auslan 5 1.8 -1

Aboriginal Languages 4 1.5 3

Arabic 4 1.5 -

Spanish 4 1.5 -1

Macedonian 3 1.1 -

Latin 2 0.7 -

Classical Greek 1 0.4 -

Turkish 1 0.4 -

*As a percentage of government secondary schools with Languages programs. Note that some schools offered more than one language.


Years 7 to 12

Years 7 to 11

Years 7 to 10

Years 7 to 9

Years 7 to 8

Year 7 only

Upper secondary only

Other sequences

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

43.5%

1.8%

13.1%

9.8%

12%

3.6%

4.4%

11.8%

StudentsIn 2012, 41.7% or 91,453 students studied a language in government secondary schools (Table 4.2). A further 3,409 enrolments represented students who studied more than one language through taster programs, bringing the total number of Languages enrolments to 94,862 (Table 4.3). The number of students studying a language in 2012 remained stable between 2011 and 2012 (Table 4.2), with just a slight decrease of 0.7% in student numbers. Increases in participation rates occurred at the Year 9 and Year 10 levels, up 6.3% and 7.8% respectively, but declined slightly at the other year levels. See Figure 4.3 and Table 4.2 for further detail.

Note that in Figures 4.3, 4.4 and 4.9 and Tables 4.2 and 4.10 students are only counted once (91,453 students). All other tables and figures in this section contain information on the number of enrolments in Languages programs (94,862 enrolments). Enrolment figures double counts students who are studying more than one language through taster programs. Twenty secondary schools offered taster courses in 2012, where, for example, students studied two languages for twenty weeks each per year.

It is also important to note that the Year 12 enrolment figures in this section count students enrolled in Year 12 and studying a language. However, a large number of students complete Languages study to the Unit 4 level before they are actually enrolled in Year 12. These students are not included in Year 12 figures in this section. The section, Languages Study at the VCE Level, explains this discrepancy and provides further details about the study of Languages through to the Year 12 (Unit 4) level amongst graduating students.

Table 4.2: Secondary level Languages enrolments, by year level and as a percentageof total student population, 2006–12

Year level

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Year 7 37,093(94.6%)

35,479(91.6%)

34,817(91.9%)

33,993(90.9%)

33,712(91.1%)

33,494(92.5%)

32,672(90%)

Year 8 34,536(86.8%)

32,754(83.1%)

32,621(83.7%)

31,759(83%)

30,558(81.1%)

31,278(83.9%)

30,397(83.2%)

Year 9 19,813(50.7%)

18,018(45.1%)

16,998(42.7%)

17,281(43.5%)

16,416(42.3%)

16,402(42.5%)

17,434(45.6%)

Year 10 8,480(22.9%)

6,938(18.3%)

6,659(17.1%)

6,212(15.9%)

5,595(14.1%)

5,728(14.9%)

6,175(16%)

Year 11 3,329(9.7%)

3,472(9.3%)

3,055(8.3%)

2,926(7.7%)

2,952(7.7%)

2,834(7.4%)

2,637(7%)

Year 12 2,552(8.8%)

2,695(9.1%)

2,536(8.2%)

2,526(8.2%)

2,424(7.6%)

2,373(7.3%)

2,138(6.6%)

Total 105,803(48.2%)

99,356(44.5%)

96,686(43.3%)

94,697(42.4%)

91,657(41.1%)

92,109(41.6%)

91,453(41.7%)

The total number of secondary students (2012 mid-year census, excluding students in special and English language schools and ungraded students) was 219,517.6 (equivalent full-time students).


Figure 4.3: Percentage of secondary students studying a language, by year level, 2006–12

Figure 4.4: Percentage of secondary level students studying a language, 2006–12

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Note: Students enrolled in taster courses are only counted once in the above table. The total number of secondary students (2012 mid-year census, excluding students in special and English language schools and ungraded students) was 219,517.6 (equivalent full-time of students).

Languages TaughtSixteen languages were taught in secondary schools in 2012, with secondary school students also studying 47 languages through the VSL (of a total of 50 languages available at the VSL), including via distance education. Overall, students at secondary schools studied a total of 49 languages through schools and/or the VSL in 2012. See Table 4.3 for details.

While enrolments remained relatively stable between 2011 and 2012, there were still some fluctuations in enrolments between languages. For example, enrolments increased for Indonesian, Chinese (Mandarin), Greek and Spanish, while declining slightly for French, Italian and Japanese (Figure 4.6).


2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

48.2 44.5 43.3 42.4 41.1 41.6 41.7

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

Year 12

Table 4.3: Secondary enrolments, by language and year level, 2012Language Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Total %

French 6,378 6,147 3,765 1,475 666 483 18,914 19.9

Italian 6,687 6,443 3,780 1,124 257 208 18,499 19.5

Indonesian 7,518 6,807 2,596 934 309 211 18,375 19.4

Japanese 6,816 4,963 3,242 1,331 510 383 17,245 18.2

German 4,183 3,444 1,982 689 347 304 10,949 11.5

Chinese (Mandarin) 2,365 2,120 1,377 608 374 407 7,251 7.6

Greek 578 194 251 26 12 10 1,071 1.1

Vietnamese 190 134 87 58 65 28 562 0.6

Spanish 117 125 213 5 0 0 460 0.5

Auslan 214 102 32 7 11 41 407 0.4

Latin 100 50 58 40 24 0 272 0.3

Turkish 64 42 73 25 30 20 254 0.3

Arabic 67 69 52 8 10 8 214 0.2

Macedonian 58 53 62 19 3 19 214 0.2

Aboriginal Languages 44 8 32 5 7 0 96 0.1

Classical Greek 0 0 39 12 12 16 79 0.1

Total 35,379 30,701 17,641 6,366 2,637 2,138 94,862 100

Figure 4.5 provides a proportional representation of all Languages enrolments in government secondary schools in 2012, while Figure 4.6 provides a trend analysis of enrolments in the six most-studied languages.

Figure 4.5: Secondary enrolments, by language, 2012


French; 18,914Italian; 18,499

Indonesian; 18,375

Japanese; 17,245German; 10,949

Chinese (Mandarin); 7,251

Other , 3,629

Figure 4.6: Secondary enrolments, six most-studied languages, 2006–12

Table

4.4 represents changes in the percentage of students who study the eight most-studied languages at the Year 7 level and at the Year 12 level. At the Year 7 level, French, Indonesian, Italian and Japanese were the most studied languages, but at the Year 12 level, proportional enrolments in Italian and Indonesian had decreased significantly. This trend was countered by a significant increase in proportional enrolments in Chinese (Mandarin), which is largely due to an increase in the number of students in Chinese as a first language programs at the senior secondary level (Table 4.7). While German, Greek and Vietnamese had proportionately lower enrolments at the Year 7 level, retention rates for these languages typically remain strong.

Table 4.4: Secondary enrolments as a percentage of all Languages enrolments, selected languages, Years 7 and 12, 2012

Language Year 7 Year 12

Chinese (Mandarin) 6.7 19

French 18 22.6

German 11.8 14.2

Greek 1.6 0.5

Indonesian 21.2 9.9

Italian 18.9 9.7

Japanese 19.3 17.9

Vietnamese 0.5 1.3

Male/Female EnrolmentsRoughly equivalent numbers of males and females undertook Languages study at the Year 7 and 8 levels in 2012 presumably due to the predominantly compulsory nature of Languages study at these levels. Changes in the proportion of males and females studying Languages over year levels followed similar patterns to 2011, with enrolments starting out as fairly even between genders at Year 7, but enrolments of male students declining as students progress through school. In 2012 64.3% of Year 12 students of Languages were female (Figure 4.7). Table 4.5 provides a breakdown of enrolments by gender and year level in 2012. The overall proportion of secondary Languages students was 50.6% female and 49.4% male (Table 4.5).


2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120

5,000

10,000

15,000

20,000

25,000

Indonesian

French

Italian

Japanese

German

Chinese (Mandarin)

Among the 10 most studied languages, more females studied French (55.8%), Vietnamese (60.7%), Auslan (57%) and Arabic (75.7%) than males, while there were more males than females studying Greek (58%), Aboriginal Languages (56.3%) and Classical Greek (58.2%). See Table 4.5 for further detail.

Figure 4.7: Secondary Languages enrolments, by gender and year level, 2012

Table 4.5: Secondary enrolments, by gender and language, 2012 Language Male Female Total

No. % No. % No.

French 8,367 44.2 10,547 55.8 18,914

Italian 9,480 51.2 9,019 48.8 18,499

Indonesian 9,248 50.3 9,127 49.7 18,375

Japanese 8,709 50.5 8,536 49.5 17,245

German 5,526 50.5 5,423 49.5 10,949

Chinese (Mandarin) 3,791 52.3 3,460 47.7 7,251

Greek 621 58 450 42 1,071

Vietnamese 221 39.3 341 60.7 562

Spanish 240 52.2 220 47.8 460

Auslan 175 43 232 57 407

Latin 134 49.3 138 50.7 272

Turkish 134 52.8 120 47.2 254

Arabic 52 24.3 162 75.7 214

Macedonian 101 47.2 113 52.8 214

Aboriginal Languages 54 56.3 42 43.8 96

Classical Greek 46 58.2 33 41.8 79

Total 46,899 49.4 47,963 50.6 94,862


Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 120%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

51.5 50.6 48.743.8

38.8 35.7

48.5 49.4 51.3 56.2 61.2 64.3

Male

Female

Languages Study at the VCE LevelVCE (Years 11 & 12) enrolment figures in Tables 4.2 and 4.3 refer to students who are studying Languages at each year level. However, the flexible nature of the Victorian curriculum results in many students completing a Languages course before they enrol in Year 12. While Table 4.3 (above) indicates that 2,138 students are studying a language in Year 12, it is of note that around 2,000 Year 12 students had either already completed a Languages course or were continuing Languages study with the VSL or through a CLS.

Although Table 4.2 (above) indicates that 6.6% of students enrolled in Year 12 were completing Unit 4 in a Languages course, this figure rises considerably once we consider government secondary school students who completed a Languages course (Unit 4) at an earlier year level or outside of regular school classes through the VSL or through a CLS.

Among students from government schools who were eligible to graduate in 2012, 17.3% had completed a Languages course either through their school, through the VSL (including via distance education) or through a community languages school. This data was provided by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. Table 4.6 lists the most-studied languages by students eligible to graduate from VCE in 2012, as well as figures for 2008 to 2011.

Table 4.6: Student enrolments (government schools) by language, students eligible tograduate from VCE, 2008 –12 (based on VCE unit 4 enrolments)

Language Number of students

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Arabic 88 87 67 80 69


French 588 535 549 548 589

German 378 360 331 352 333

Greek 147 134 132 124 105

Indonesian 470 351 376 325 276

Italian 284 220 235 230 254

Japanese 539 588 530 526 530

Korean 56 91 90 91 63

Turkish 150 136 129 102 102

Vietnamese 284 400 371 422 368

Other 548 551 559 530 585

Total 4,711 4,644 4,733 4,782 4,608

Percentage of all graduating students

17.6% 17.5% 17.4% 17.7% 17.3%

Source: VCAA, 2013.

Snapshot of students eligible to graduate from VCE in 2012 (students from Victorian government schools) and the languages studiedTable 4.7, following, provides detailed information about the students eligible to graduate in 2012 having completed a Languages course during their senior secondary schooling. As outlined in Table 4.7, this included finishing a Languages course when enrolled in Year 10, Year 11 or Year 12. Overall, a majority of students, 59.1%, completed Unit 4 of a Languages course when they were enrolled in Year 12 (2012). A further 38.5% of students completed Unit 4 of a Languages course when they were enrolled in Year 11 (2011), while the remaining 2.4% completed Unit 4 when they were enrolled in Year 10 (2010).


Table 4.7: Government school students eligible to graduate from VCE, 2012: number of students who completed a VCE Unit 4 Languages course by year undertaken

Year Unit 4 undertaken

Language Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Total

Chinese (Mandarin)Chinese First LanguageChinese Second Language AdvancedChinese Second Language

6117

21

23

872468

250

154

401189

145

67

1,334674

416

244

French 1 60 528 589

JapaneseJapanese First LanguageJapanese Second Language

101

791267

4508

442

53020

510

Vietnamese 9 229 130 368

German 1 47 285 333

IndonesianIndonesian First LanguageIndonesian Second Language

101

552

53

2209

211

27611

265

Italian 4 25 225 254

Greek 4 46 55 105

Turkish 1 24 77 102

Persian 1 43 44 88

Arabic 0 24 45 69

KoreanKorean First LanguageKorean Second Language

835

451827

1037

632439

Other 19 224 254 497

Total 111 1,773 2,724 4,608

Percentage 2.4 38.5 59.1 100

Source: VCAA, 2013.

Note that there is a discrepancy between the number of government secondary school students enrolled in Year 12 studying a language, as reported by schools, in Table 4.2 (2,138 students) and the number of government secondary school students enrolled in Year 12 studying a language in Table 4.7 (2,724 students), as reported by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. This discrepancy is due to the fact that some students, who are enrolled in a government secondary school during the day, studied a language through a community language school after hours or on the weekend while enrolled in Year 12.


Contact TimeThe average contact time for Languages programs varied at each year level and across schools. At the Year 7 level, the average time allocated for Languages programs was 143.7 minutes per week, increasing across the year levels to an average of 230.2 minutes at Year 12. Average contact times at other year levels were Year 8, 152.5 minutes; Year 9, 163.4 minutes; Year 10, 203.2 minutes; and Year 11, 228.6 minutes (Figure 4.8).

The time allocated to Languages study also varied from school to school. In 2012, 74.2% of Year 7 Languages students (slightly up from 70% in 2011) and 76.1% of Year 8 Languages students (up from 72.3% in 2010) were in programs of a minimum140 minutes per week. (The recommended minimum is 150 minutes per week, although many school timetables produce 140–145 minute allotments per week). At Years 11 and 12, 98.1% and 96.8% of students respectively, studied a language for more than 190 minutes per week.

Figure 4.8: Average minutes per week for Languages programs, by year level, 2006–12

Program TypesThe range of Languages programs provided and the teaching methods used in secondary schools varied according to student needs and available resources. Individual Languages programs within schools can be divided into two types.

1. A Languages program, which focuses on the teaching and learning of the target language and understanding the connections between language and culture.

2. A Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) program, which teaches content from another curriculum area, combined with explicit teaching of the target language with a focus on the vocabulary and structures required for the additional curriculum area. Content may include all or part of one or more curriculum areas.

In 2012, 97% of students were enrolled in Languages programs, with the remaining 3% enrolled in Content and Languages Integrated Learning (CLIL) programs (Table 4.8).


2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120

50

100

150

200

250

300

Year 12

Year 11

Year 10

Year 9

Year 8

Year 7

Table 4.8: Secondary Languages enrolments, by language and program type, 2012

Language Languages programs

CLILprograms

Total

French 18,867 47 18,914

Italian 17,996 503 18,499

Indonesian 17,828 547 18,375

Japanese 16,707 538 17,245

German 10,650 299 10,949

Chinese (Mandarin) 6,500 751 7,251

Greek 957 114 1,071

Vietnamese 562 0 562

Spanish 427 33 460

Auslan 407 0 407

Latin 272 0 272

Turkish 254 0 254

Arabic 214 0 214

Macedonian 214 0 214

Aboriginal Languages 63 33 96

Classical Greek 79 0 79

Total 91,997 2,865 94,862

Percentage 97% 3% 100%

Regional Provision of LanguagesFrom the beginning of 2013, DEECD moved to deliver educational services through a four-region model. Regional data has been analysed based on the four new regions, which encompasses the former nine regions as follows:

South-Western Victoria (SWV) – encompasses the Barwon South Western, Grampians and Western Metropolitan Regions

North-Western Victoria (NWV) – encompasses the Loddon Mallee and Northern Metropolitan Regions

North-Eastern Victoria (NEV) – encompasses the Hume and Eastern Metropolitan Regions

South-Eastern Victoria (SEV) – encompasses the Gippsland and Southern Metropolitan Regions.

Between nine and 13 languages were offered across the four regions in 2012. Although enrolments were quite evenly spread across the major languages, Italian was the most-studied language in the South-Western and North-Western Victoria regions, French was the most-studied language in the North-Eastern Victoria region and Japanese the most-studied in South-Eastern Victoria region (Table 4.9).

Table 4.9: Secondary enrolments, by region and language, 2012


Language SWV NWV NEV SEV TotalFrench 3,362 3,341 6,484 5,727 18,914

Italian 6,986 7,856 2,710 947 18,499

Indonesian 5,184 4,414 3,217 5,560 18,375

Japanese 5,831 1,527 4,134 5,753 17,245

German 2,413 1,612 3,386 3,538 10,949


Greek 257 541 273 0 1,071

Vietnamese 507 39 6 10 562

Spanish 237 0 223 0 460

Auslan 0 223 184 0 407

Latin 164 0 0 108 272

Turkish 0 254 0 0 254

Arabic 79 135 0 0 214



Classical Greek 0 0 79 0 79

Total 26,696 21,601 23,156 23,409 94,862

In 2012, the percentage of students studying a language in metropolitan areas was higher than in regional areas at all year levels. The gap between metropolitan and regional students increased from Year 7 onwards, with a particularly large decrease in enrolments at the Year 9 level in regional schools. As a result, the proportion of Languages students in metropolitan areas was around double that of regional secondary schools from Year 9 onwards (Figure 4.9). Further details are available in Table 4.10. Overall, 44.5% of students studied a language in metropolitan areas, while the percentage of students in regional areas studying a language stood at 35.1% in 2012.

Figure 4.9: Secondary Languages students (percentage) in metropolitan and regional areas, by year level, 2012

Table 4.10: Secondary Languages students, by metropolitan and regional areas,by year level, 2012

Year level Regional Metropolitan

Languages students

All students

% Languages students

All %


Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 120%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%91.3 89.3

53.6

17.6

8 7.6

86.9

70

27.6

12.4 4.6 4.3

Metropolitan

Regional

students

Year 7 9,656 11,106.20 86.9 23,016 25,201.60 91.3

Year 8 8,015 11,450.70 70 22,382 25,072.70 89.3

Year 9 3,257 11,797.50 27.6 14,177 26,426.70 53.6

Year 10 1,429 11,555.40 12.4 4,746 26,999.70 17.6

Year 11 521 11,244.60 4.6 2,116 26,492.80 8

Year 12 394 9,092.40 4.3 1,744 23,077.30 7.6

Total 23,272 66,246.80 35.1 68,181 153,270.80 44.5

Regional differences at Years 11 and 12Overall, 8% and 7.6% of students enrolled in Years 11 and 12 in metropolitan areas studied a language in 2012, or 7.8% overall at the senior secondary level. In regional areas, the proportion of Languages students increased slightly to 4.6% and 4.3% at Years 11 and 12 respectively, or 4.5% at the senior secondary level (Table 4.10 and Figure 4.10). However, it too refers to the caveats outlined in the Languages Study at the VCE level section, with enrolments at the senior secondary levels likely to be higher in both regional and metropolitan areas than the numbers in Figure 4.10 indicate.

Figure 4.10: Languages enrolments at Years 11 and 12, by regional or metropolitan regions, 2006–12


2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120%

2%

4%

6%

8%

10%

12%

10.29.8

9.1

8.7 8.8 8.37.87.5 7.7

6.5 6.2

4.9 5.1 4.5Metropolitan

Regional

5. Teachers of Languages in Victorian Government Schools

In 2012, there were 1,587 teachers teaching in Victorian government primary and secondary schools, who had some level of Languages qualification (Figure 5.1). Among the Languages teachers, a small percentage played multiple roles, teaching in more than one school, or at both the primary and secondary levels. For example, 37 teachers taught at two or three schools. A further 134 qualified teachers of Languages in primary and secondary schools were not teaching a language in 2012. These teachers taught other subjects, were classroom teachers, had assumed other roles within schools or were on leave.

Figure 5.1: Languages teachers, by school type, 2012

Teachers of Asian languages represented 46.5% of Languages teachers, European language teachers accounted for 50% of teachers, while teachers of Aboriginal Languages, Arabic, Auslan, and Turkish made up the remaining 3.5% of Languages teachers. There were more teachers of Italian than any of the other languages in 2012 (19.2% of all Languages teachers), followed by teachers of Indonesian (18.2% of Languages teachers) (Table 5.1).

The percentage of Languages teachers who were male stood at 19.3% in 2012. Twenty point seven percent (20.7%) of teachers of Asian languages were male, and 17.9% of teachers of European languages were male. Amongst the larger candidature languages, Japanese was the language with the highest percentage of male teachers (22.7%). Numerically, there were 1,281 female Languages teachers and 306 male teachers in primary and secondary schools in 2012 (Table 5.1).


Primary school

P to 12 school

Secondary school

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1,000

576

105

906

Table 5.1: Teachers by gender and language, 2012Language Male Female Total

Italian 44 260 304

Indonesian 60 229 289

Japanese 63 214 277

French 58 218 276

German 30 128 158

Chinese (Mandarin) 26 124 150

Auslan 7 30 37

Greek 2 27 29

Vietnamese 2 16 18

Spanish 2 11 13

Arabic 2 6 8

Macedonian 1 7 8

Turkish 2 5 7

Latin 4 0 4

Aboriginal languages 0 3 3

Karen 1 1 2

Korean 1 1 2

Classical Greek 1 0 1

Hindi 0 1 1

Total 306 1,281 1,587

Percentage 19.3 80.7 100

Figure 5.2, following, provides information on the qualification levels of teachers of Languages in Victorian government schools, while Figure 5.3 provides details on the hours teachers spent teaching Languages each week. As data was not available for 214 teachers or 13.5% of the teacher cohort, information in these figures should only be seen as indicative of the situation.

Teachers of Languages 55

Figure 5.2: Qualification levels of Languages teachers, 2012


0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

0.6%

6.9%

7%

3.6%

1.1%

2.4%

4.8%

3.8%

4.5%

12.6%

52.7%Three year (post-VCE) tertiary language study (or equiv.)Four year (beginners) tertiary language studyTwo year (post-VCE) tertiary language studyThree year (beginners) tertiary language studyLanguages accreditationOne year (beginners or post-VCE)Two year beginners tertiary language studyFurther tertiary studies e.g. Masters in Applied Linguistics, PhDNative speaker, no formal Languages qualificationsOther (e.g. one year living in Japan)Undetermined

Figure 5.3: Hours spent teaching Languages each week, primary and secondary levels, 2012

Teachers of Languages 57

Less than 10 hours 10 to 20 hours More than 20 hours0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

55.9%

32.9%

11.2%

49.4% 49.4%

1.2%

Primary Secondary

6. Bilingual Programs in Victorian Government Schools

In 2012, one special school and eleven primary schools offered designated bilingual programs (Table 6.1). Bilingual programs provide students with the opportunity to learn curriculum content in, and through, both English and another language. In addition to the language curriculum, content-based teaching takes place in two or more of the domains within the Discipline-based Learning Strand of the AusVELS. Schools may choose from Science, Mathematics, The Arts and The Humanities. Within these domains, bilingual classes are run for subject areas such as visual arts, performing arts, health, sport and physical education, economics, geography, history and the study of society and environment (see Table 6.1). Students are taught in or through the language for between 450 and 700 minutes per week. Additionally, other activities at these schools may also be run in the language such as library time, school assemblies, camps and excursions.

Teachers in the designated bilingual primary programs are highly qualified and are often supported by teacher aides, assistants provided by overseas governments or volunteers from the community. As well as their teaching duties at schools, teachers also share their knowledge at a local, national and international level. Within local clusters of schools, for example, they may provide activities for other schools to use in their language classes. Teachers also provide training and support for student teachers and also host teachers from overseas, modelling effective teaching and learning strategies for use in their home countries. Many schools and teachers also support university researchers around Australia who are conducting research into teaching methodology, student outcomes and the benefits of bilingual education.

Once students near the end of their primary schooling, teachers and schools work with staff at secondary schools in their areas to provide the maximum opportunity for students to continue with their Languages studies at an appropriate level. This includes developing student portfolios so that secondary school staff are aware of each student’s linguistic achievements and, where possible, provide an advanced curriculum from the Year 7 level.

Table 6.1, following, sets out details of the designated bilingual schools and their programs.


Table 6.1: Designated bilingual programs, 2012 School Languages Domains Year levels Student

numbers

Abbotsford Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) The Humanities, Mathematics, ICT and Languages 450 minutes for Prep to Year 6 43

Aurora School Auslan The Humanities, Mathematics and Languages 200 minutes for Prep only 16

Bayswater South Primary School German The Humanities, Science, The Arts and Languages 450 minutes for Prep to Year 6 278

Benalla East Primary School Indonesian The Humanities, Mathematics, Science and Languages 450 minute for Prep only 18

Camberwell Primary School French Mathematics, Science and Languages 500 to 700 minutes for Prep to Year 6 494

Caulfield Primary School Japanese The Humanities, The Arts and Languages600 minutes for Prep to Year 2,

300 minutes for Years 3 to 6

67

54

Footscray Primary School Vietnamese The Humanities, Mathematics, Science, The Arts and Languages

120 minutes for Prep to Year 2

240 minutes for Years 3 to 6163

Gruyere Primary School Japanese The Arts, The Humanities and Languages 450 minutes for Prep to Year 6 34

Huntingdale Primary School Japanese The Humanities, The Arts, Science and Languages 450 minutes for Prep to Year 6 268

Kennington Primary School Auslan The Humanities and Mathematics 450 minutes for Prep only. 95

Lalor North Primary SchoolMacedonian

GreekThe Humanities, Mathematics, Science, The Arts and Languages

500 to 750 minutes for Prep to Year 6


88

61

Richmond West Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) Vietnamese

The Humanities, Mathematics and Languages


600 minutes for Prep to Year 2

91

22

Bilingual programs 59

7. The Victorian School of LanguagesThe Victorian School of Languages is a government school which provides programs in 50 languages through its 40 centres (30 in the metropolitan area and 10 in regional areas), as well as through distance education in 2012. The VSL provides programs for students from government and non-government schools to develop their home or heritage language; students who may be seeking continuity in Languages study after changing schools or students who wish to learn a new language, who cannot access a particular language in their mainstream school. Lessons are provided outside regular school hours, usually on Saturday mornings, and are typically of three hours’ duration.

In total, 15,586 Prep to Year 12 students studied Languages through the VSL in 2012 (including enrolments via distance education). Of these, 6,811 were primary students and 8,775 were secondary students. Total enrolments at the VSL remained relatively stable between 2010 and 2012.

Of the fifty languages taught at the VSL in 2012, five languages - Chin (Falam), Chin (Matu), Classical Greek, Gujarati and Tamil, were not offered in 2011.

Distance education continued to provide an important avenue for Languages study, with enrolments in distance education representing 17.7% of secondary VSL enrolments in 2012. Nine students who were enrolled full-time at the Distance Education Centre of Victoria in Year 6 were also given permission to study a language at the VSL through distance education in 2012. All figures referring to the VSL in this section include enrolments through distance education. Further details on distance education are available in the Distance Education Provision at the Victorian School of Languages Figure 7.1 which provides a comparison of all VSL enrolments from 2006 to 2012 at the primary and secondary levels and shows that enrolments at both the primary and secondary levels remained relatively stable between 2011 and 2012.

Figure 7.1: Enrolments at the VSL, 2006–12

Table 7.1 sets out the total VSL enrolments for each language by year level. Forty-five of the languages taught at the VSL were studied at both the primary and secondary levels, with Bulgarian, Syriac and Tamil only studied at the primary level and Latin and Classical Greek only studied at the secondary level. The five most popular languages overall were Chinese (Mandarin), Vietnamese, Greek, Turkish and Japanese. Together, these five languages accounted for 46.9% of total enrolments in the VSL, with the remaining students spread over a wide range of languages.


2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120

3,000

6,000

9,000

12,000

15,000

18,000

15,12216,097 15,908 15,586

8,6189,183 9,159 8,775

6,366 6,914 6,749 6,811

Total

Secondary

Primary

Table 7.1: VSL enrolments, by language and year level, 2012 Language Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Total %

Chinese (Mandarin)

269 267 240 210 161 178 205 168 130 156 297 408 2,689 17.3

Vietnamese 306 156 169 147 135 148 132 118 114 132 184 252 1,993 12.8

Greek 195 141 108 106 102 76 72 63 42 26 37 27 995 6.4

Turkish 73 85 73 64 70 66 69 59 55 57 81 77 829 5.3

Japanese 18 18 9 18 14 13 88 89 88 123 149 177 804 5.2

French 15 24 19 22 20 14 109 52 117 74 149 125 740 4.7

Arabic 63 55 47 38 49 33 45 34 37 35 75 100 611 3.9

Italian 33 31 29 21 28 25 76 48 68 80 98 65 602 3.9

Spanish 65 38 25 35 24 23 68 29 58 38 103 88 594 3.8

Sinhala 99 91 73 48 48 40 31 22 28 27 45 34 586 3.8

German 9 2 8 2 7 7 59 24 72 64 112 96 462 3.0

Punjabi 64 28 48 33 36 37 47 32 28 32 32 41 458 2.9

Indonesian 0 0 0 0 0 5 15 20 37 65 143 124 409 2.6

Macedonian 27 36 33 28 36 28 40 30 38 28 26 41 391 2.5

Karen 24 34 44 30 27 46 33 33 40 52 0 0 363 2.3

Hindi 35 32 40 23 36 22 30 21 30 12 32 46 359 2.3

Korean 40 13 20 17 11 17 22 12 18 6 53 90 319 2.0

Croatian 33 27 26 30 32 32 18 25 26 24 20 20 313 2.0

Chin (Hakha) 13 17 31 18 30 24 25 26 20 16 0 0 220 1.4

Persian 6 2 2 1 2 0 0 0 3 9 56 107 188 1.2

Dari 12 9 18 12 10 18 20 17 29 30 0 0 175 1.1

Khmer 14 11 13 12 14 13 5 13 11 18 12 29 165 1.1

Polish 3 6 4 6 4 2 8 16 13 25 30 33 150 1.0

Bosnian 5 2 12 5 14 6 15 20 8 16 27 10 140 0.9


Language Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Total %

Serbian 3 9 7 8 8 10 7 17 9 8 14 18 118 0.8

Latin 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 4 19 8 29 15 103 0.7

Hebrew 3 3 5 2 4 11 11 12 10 3 16 10 90 0.6

Russian 19 6 9 11 9 4 6 2 2 4 9 8 89 0.6

Portuguese 6 4 11 5 5 5 2 6 7 5 12 15 83 0.5

Albanian 8 9 9 2 1 6 3 8 11 6 1 15 79 0.5

Dinka 9 12 5 8 6 9 6 8 7 5 0 0 75 0.5

Dutch 5 4 7 1 1 0 2 1 1 3 9 14 48 0.3

Filipino 0 0 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 3 15 19 47 0.3

Maltese 5 2 3 4 6 5 4 6 2 2 5 0 44 0.3

Chin (Falam) 2 3 6 0 4 0 9 5 2 1 0 0 32 0.2

Hungarian 3 4 2 3 3 1 1 2 2 0 4 7 32 0.2

Chin (Matu) 4 5 1 6 3 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 25 0.2

Tamil 22 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 0.1

Romanian 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 4 14 22 0.1

Pushto 4 4 2 1 2 3 2 2 0 1 0 0 21 0.1

Cantonese 1 6 3 1 1 0 0 3 2 2 0 0 19 0.1

Bengali 5 4 1 1 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 15 0.1

Swahili 0 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 3 2 0 0 11 0.1

Tigrinya 3 0 1 0 2 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 11 0.1

Amharic 5 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 10 0.1

Syriac 4 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0.1

Bulgarian 1 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 <0.1


Language Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Total %

Gujarati 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 <0.1

Classical Greek 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 6 <0.1

Lithuanian 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 5 <0.1

Total 1,535 1,203 1,174 985 976 938 1,326 1,053 1,188 1,204 1,879 2,125 15,586 100


Chinese (Mandarin) was strongly represented across the primary and secondary levels - each had around 1,300 students - while enrolments in Vietnamese remained strong with around 1,000 enrolments at both primary and secondary levels. Overall, there were noticeable differences in patterns of enrolments between the primary and secondary levels for some other languages. Some community languages such as Greek and Sinhala, for example, had stronger enrolments at primary than at secondary level, although most community languages had fairly even enrolments across the primary and secondary levels. By contrast, Japanese, French, Indonesian, Italian, German and Spanish had a higher proportion of total enrolments at the secondary levels.

Figure 7.2 represents the proportions of primary and secondary students studying at the VSL who attend government and non-government schools and shows that access to Languages study through the VSL remained important to students from both sectors. Overall, the majority of students at the VSL were government school students, 68% of enrolments overall, with non-government school students (from Catholic and independent schools, as well as home-schooled students) making up the remaining 32% of enrolments.

Figure 7.2: Languages enrolments at the VSL, by sector, 2012

Distance Education Provision at the Victorian School of LanguagesIn 2012, the Victorian School of Languages offered Languages programs through distance education in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Classical Greek, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin and Spanish to primary (Year 6) students enrolled full-time through distance education and to secondary students wishing to study a language which was not offered at their school or not currently attending a school. Of all secondary students enrolled at the VSL in 2012, 1,554 students or 17.6% were studying a language through distance education (Table 7.2). Figure 7.3 provides changes in enrolments in the six languages most studied through distance education between 2006 and 2012.


Primary Secondary Overall0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

68.4% 66.7% 68%

31.6% 32.3% 32%

Government school students

Non-government school students

Table 7.2: Student enrolments in distance education, by language and year level, 2012 Language Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Total

French 2 82 17 62 29 66 57 315

German 2 45 10 52 39 67 56 271

Japanese 0 20 17 21 29 47 72 206

Italian 0 38 17 25 33 45 42 200

Indonesian 5 5 5 15 29 64 57 180

Spanish 0 41 0 20 0 35 26 122

Latin 0 28 4 19 8 29 15 103

Chinese 0 7 0 1 0 25 37 70

Greek 0 12 10 9 3 20 8 62

Arabic 0 0 0 0 0 8 11 19

Classical Greek 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 6

Total 9 284 80 224 170 406 381 1,554

Figure 7.3: Student enrolments in distance education (six most-studied languages), 2006–12


2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

450

French

German

Japanese

Italian

Indonesian

Spanish

8. Community Languages SchoolsCommunity Languages Schools (CLS), previously known as after-hours ethnic schools, are conducted by incorporated community-based, not-for-profit organisations accredited for funding by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

Community Languages Schools provide languages education programs that are complementary to those provided by mainstream schools and the Victorian School of Languages (VSL). Community Languages Schools provide classes to students from Prep to Year 12 (depending on the language) outside mainstream school hours; i.e. after school or on weekends.

In 2012, there were 181 accredited Community Languages Schools operating throughout Victoria, offering programs in 43 languages to 36,964 enrolled students. Table 8.1 provides enrolments in CLS at the primary and secondary level by language, as well as listing the number of CLS offering each language.

Table 8.2 provides the number of teachers teaching each language. These teachers have a range of qualifications including primary and/or secondary teacher qualifications in Australia or from overseas, qualifications in language teaching methodology or no teacher qualifications. DEECD continues to provide support and training opportunities for teachers employed in CLS.

Table 8.1: CLS enrolments by language, and school numbers, 2012

Language Primary enrolments

Secondary enrolments

Total enrolments

Number of schools

Arabic 2,257 190 2,447 19

Armenian 84 27 111 2

Assyrian 168 0 168 2

Bengali 107 40 147 2

Chinese (Cantonese) 204 74 278 3

Chinese (Mandarin) 8,154 4,635 12,789 27

Croatian 84 11 95 2

Danish 49 4 53 1

Dari 411 0 411 2

Dinka 49 0 49 1

Filipino 5 61 66 1

German 174 71 245 3

Greek 5,158 1,618 6,776 40

Harari* 223 9 232 2

Hebrew 194 0 194 1

Hungarian 24 6 30 2

Italian 683 112 795 2

Japanese 281 78 359 1

Khmer 33 5 38 1

Korean 197 69 266 2

Kurdish* 246 44 290 1

Latvian 37 10 47 1

Nuer 7 0 7 1


Language Primary enrolments

Secondary enrolments

Total enrolments

Number of schools

Oromo* 78 36 114 2

Otuho 38 14 52 1

Persian 161 40 201 1

Polish 187 45 232 2

Punjabi 60 0 60 1

Romanian 5 6 11 1

Russian 351 123 474 5

Serbian 148 75 223 3

Shona/Ndebele 38 0 38 1

Sinhala 618 134 752 6

Slovak 16 4 20 1

Somali* 635 346 981 6

Spanish 62 38 100 2

Swedish 98 34 132 1

Tamil 348 74 422 2

Thai 64 5 69 2

Tigrinya* 9 10 19 1

Turkish 315 87 402 5

Ukrainian 66 39 105 1

Vietnamese 4,743 1,921 6,664 18

Total 26,869 10,095 36,964 181

*Indicates that some Arabic is included in some, but not all, of these language programs for religious and cultural purposes.

Table 8.2: CLS teachers, by language, 2012

Language Teacher numbers Language Teacher numbers

Arabic 278 Nuer 5

Armenian 16 Oromo* 18

Assyrian 17 Otuho 5

Bengali 12 Persian 38

Chinese (Cantonese) 48 Polish 35

Chinese (Mandarin) 1,124 Punjabi 16

Croatian 13 Romanian 2

Danish 6 Russian 73

Dari 25 Serbian 19

Dinka 10 Shona/Ndebele 7

Filipino 4 Sinhala 88

German 33 Slovak 3


Language Teacher numbers Language Teacher numbers

Greek 519 Somali* 66

Harari* 45 Spanish 24

Hebrew 12 Swedish 14

Hungarian 8 Tamil 74

Italian 36 Thai 21

Japanese 39 Tigrinya* 9

Khmer 5 Turkish 33

Korean 40 Ukrainian 26

Kurdish* 11 Vietnamese 525

Latvian 13

*Indicates that some Arabic is included in some, but not all, of these language programs for religious and cultural purposes.


Appendix 1: Languages by provider of programs, 2012Key: GS = government school, VSL = Victorian School of Languages, CLS = Community Language School

Language School type Language School type

Aboriginal Languages GS Khmer VSL, CLS

Albanian VSL Korean GS, VSL, CLS

Amharic VSL Kurdish* CLS

Arabic GS, VSL, CLS Latin GS, VSL

Armenian CLS Latvian CLS

Assyrian CLS Lithuanian VSL

Auslan GS Macedonian GS, VSL

Bengali VSL, CLS Maltese VSL

Bosnian VSL Nuer CLS

Bulgarian VSL Oromo* CLS

Chin (Falam) VSL Otuho CLS

Chin (Hakha) VSL Persian VSL, CLS

Chin (Matu) VSL Polish VSL, CLSChinese (Cantonese) VSL, CLS Portuguese GS, VSL

Chinese (Mandarin) GS, VSL, CLS Punjabi VSL, CLS

Classical Greek GS, VSL Pushto VSL

Croatian VSL, CLS Romanian VSL, CLS

Danish CLS Russian VSL, CLS

Dari VSL, CLS Serbian GS, VSL, CLS

Dinka VSL, CLS Shona/Ndebele CLS

Dutch GS, VSL Sinhala VSL, CLS

Filipino VSL, CLS Slovak CLS

French GS, VSL Somali* CLS

German GS, VSL, CLS Spanish GS, VSL, CLS

Greek GS, VSL, CLS Swahili VSL

Gujarati VSL Swedish CLS

Harari* CLS Syriac VSL

Hebrew VSL, CLS Tamil VSL, CLS

Hindi GS, VSL Thai CLS

Hungarian VSL, CLS Tigrinya* VSL, CLS

Indonesian GS, VSL Turkish GS, VSL, CLS

Italian GS, VSL, CLS Ukrainian CLS

Japanese GS, VSL, CLS Vietnamese GS, VSL, CLS

Karen GS, VSL*Note that some Arabic is included in some, but not all, of these language programs for religious and cultural purposes.


Appendix 2: Languages by Government Primary Schools, 2012Aboriginal Languages (2 schools) School no.

Monbulk Primary School 3265

Nyora Primary School 3401

Arabic (3 schools) School no.Coolaroo South Primary School 4952

Dallas Brooks Community Primary School 5546

Debney Meadows Primary School 5068

Auslan (42 schools) School no.Airly Primary School 4169

Bairnsdale West Primary School 4725

Balliang East Primary School 3787

Broadford Primary School 1125

Cardinia Primary School 3689

Chum Creek Primary School 3279

Coimadai Primary School 716

Cranbourne East Primary School 5518

Dallas North Primary School 4933

Diamond Creek East Primary School 5037

Drummartin Primary School 1473

Dunolly Primary School 1582

Eastwood Primary School 4702

Exford Primary School 3423

Golden Square Primary School 5531

Grovedale West Primary School 5076

Harrisfield Primary School 4730

Horsham Primary School 5548

Kennington Primary School 3686

Koorlong Primary School 3470

Lake Charm Primary School 2122

Lynbrook Primary School 5494

Merrigum Primary School 1874

Middle Kinglake Primary School 3315

Mildura South Primary School 4389

Morang South Primary School 1975

Narre Warren North Primary School 1901

Officer Primary School 2742

Orchard Grove Primary School 5285

Rosanna Golf Links Primary School 4753

Rowellyn Park Primary School 5313

Seville Primary School 2820

Shepparton (Guthrie Street) Primary School 5020

Somers Primary School 4458

St Albans East Primary School 4741

Swifts Creek School 8892

The Lakes South Morang P-9 School 8846

Traralgon (Liddiard Road) Primary School 4700

Wesburn Primary School 3466

Willmott Park Primary School 5342

Woodside Primary School 1176

Woorinen District Primary School 5439

Chinese (Mandarin) (108 schools) School no.Abbotsford Primary School 1886

Alvie Consolidated School 6201

Ararat North Primary School 4995

Ararat Primary School 800

Ararat West Primary School 4720

Aspendale Gardens Primary School 5301

Athlone Primary School 3623

Auburn Primary School 2948

Auburn South Primary School 4183

Bacchus Marsh Primary School 28

Balliang East Primary School 3787

Balwyn North Primary School 4638

Balwyn Primary School 1026

Bayswater Primary School 2163

Beverley Hills Primary School 4813

Black Rock Primary School 3631

Blackburn Primary School 2923

Brandon Park Primary School 5038

Briagolong Primary School 1117

Burwood East Primary School 454

Appendix 2: Languages by primary schools 71

Caledonian Primary School 5384

Camp Hill Primary School 1976

Carlton Gardens Primary School 2605

Chandler Park Primary School 5533

Chewton Primary School 1054

Clifton Hill Primary School 1360

Coimadai Primary School 716

Collingwood College 6212

Creswick North Primary School 2041

Delacombe Primary School 5201

Derrimut Primary School 5512

Donburn Primary School 5019

Doncaster Gardens Primary School 5454

Doncaster Primary School 197

Elsternwick Primary School 2870

Epsom Primary School 2367

Footscray City Primary School 1912

Glen Waverley Primary School 5425

Glendal Primary School 5010

Golden Square Primary School 5531

Gordon Primary School 755

Great Western Primary School 860

Hawkesdale P-12 College 5434

Highvale Primary School 4986

Invermay Primary School 882

Jells Park Primary School 5176

Jindivick Primary School 1951

Kangaroo Flat Primary School 981

Kingsbury Primary School 4845

Knox Gardens Primary School 5234

Knox Park Primary School 4990

Labertouche Primary School 2471

Lal Lal Primary School 863

Lardner and District Primary School 5393

Laurimar Primary School 5497

Learmonth Primary School 386

Little Bendigo Primary School 2093

Livingstone Primary School 5113

Longwarry Primary School 2505

Malvern Primary School 2586

Marnoo Primary School 1554

Mckinnon Primary School 4366

Meredith Primary School 1420

Milgate Primary School 5212

Moe (Albert Street) Primary School 2142

Moorabbin Primary School 1111

Mount Blowhard Primary School 2037

Mount Clear Primary School 427

Mount Pleasant Primary School 1436

Mount View Primary School 4923

Mulgrave Primary School 2172

Nangiloc Colignan and District Primary School 5402

Napoleons Primary School 1072

Narracan Primary School 2295

Neerim District Rural Primary School 5394

Neerim South Primary School 2432

Newborough East Primary School 4670

Noojee Primary School 4098

Parkhill Primary School 5416

Parkmore Primary School 4881

Paynesville Primary School 2343

Pentland Primary School 5369

Pomonal Primary School 2859

Preston South Primary School 824

Red Cliffs East Primary School 4123

Red Cliffs Primary School 4057

Richmond West Primary School 5044

Ripplebrook Primary School 2129

Rokewood Primary School 531

Rosewood Downs Primary School 5087

Rupanyup Primary School 1595

Serpell Primary School 5168

Skipton Primary School 582

Specimen Hill Primary School 1316

Stawell West Primary School 4934

Surrey Hills Primary School 2778

Templeton Primary School 5196

Thomas Mitchell Primary School 5294

Wales Street Primary School 3139

Wattle Park Primary School 3841

Werrimull P-12 School 6257

Wheelers Hill Primary School 5094

Whitehorse Primary School 5530


Willow Grove Primary School 2520

Willowmavin Primary School 3479

Wycheproof P-12 College 8831

Yarra Primary School 5271

Yawarra Primary School 5429

Dutch (1 school) School no.Laharum Primary School 2805

French (80 schools) School no.Albert Park Primary School 1181

Amphitheatre Primary School 1637

Balmoral P-12 Community College (interim Name) 8872

Baranduda Primary School 2222

Bellaire Primary School 4873

Bolinda Primary School 1070

Boort District P-12 School 8882

Buangor Primary School 2072

Camberwell Primary School 888

Camelot Rise Primary School 5111

Carrington Primary School 5426

Carwatha P-12 College 5435

Castlemaine Primary School 119

Caulfield Junior College 3820

Cheltenham Primary School 84

Chiltern Primary School 327

Clarkefield Primary School 3035


Coatesville Primary School 4712

Dandenong North Primary School 4723

Dandenong Primary School 1403

Deepdene Primary School 3680

Dorset Primary School 5132

East Bentleigh Primary School 4837

Edithvale Primary School 3790

Elmhurst Primary School 959

Fairfield Primary School 2711

Falls Creek Primary School 5067

Glen Iris Primary School 1148

Glendal Primary School 5010

Greythorn Primary School 4694

Guthridge Primary School 4853

Hampton Primary School 3754

Heathcote Primary School 300

Katunga South Primary School 2269

Kew Primary School 1075

Keysborough Primary School 5534


Kunyung Primary School 5182

Landsborough Primary School 1862

Lavers Hill P-12 College 6231

Macarthur Primary School 1571

Malmsbury Primary School 1408

Maroona Primary School 1943

Melton Primary School 430

Merrijig Primary School 1379

Middle Park Primary School 2815

Montmorency South Primary School 4925

Montpellier Primary School 4972

Moonambel Primary School 1683

Mornington Park Primary School 5040

Mornington Primary School 2033

Mount Eliza North Primary School 5140

Mount Macedon Primary School 415

Napoleons Primary School 1072

Navarre Primary School 1330

Newham Primary School 1913

Numurkah Primary School 2134

Olinda Primary School 3494

Patterson Lakes Primary School 5190

Port Melbourne Primary School 2932

Scoresby Primary School 1028

South Yarra Primary School 583

Southern Cross Primary School 5235

St Arnaud Primary School 1646

Stanley Primary School 550

Talbot Primary School 954

Talgarno Primary School 1954

Terang College 6236

Timor Primary School 1207

Tongala Primary School 6255


Toora Primary School 2253

Toorak Primary School 3016

Wahgunyah Primary School 644

Wandin Yallock Primary School 1033

Weeroona College Bendigo 7405

Wheelers Hill Primary School 5094

White Hills Primary School 1916

Willaura Primary School 2662

Wooranna Park Primary School 4989

German (53 schools) School no.Amsleigh Park Primary School 5428

Ashby Primary School 1492

Bayswater South Primary School 4973

Beaconsfield Primary School 3033

Billanook Primary School 5193

Bimbadeen Heights Primary School 5011

Boneo Primary School 1184

Boronia Heights Primary School 4967

Boronia K-12 College 8913

Branxholme-Wallacedale Community School 5377

Carrum Primary School 3385

Cavendish Primary School 116


Concongella Primary School 1136

Dimboola Primary School 1372

Don Valley Primary School 3956

East Loddon P-12 College 6217

Edenhope College 5432

Halls Gap Primary School 3058

Harrietville Primary School 843

Highvale Primary School 4986

Hoddles Creek Primary School 2541

Horsham West - Haven Primary School 4697


Livingstone Primary School 5113

Macleod College 6242

Marlo Primary School 3433


Morwell (Commercial Road) Primary School 2136

Morwell Park Primary School 4975

Mossgiel Park Primary School 5205

Mount Dandenong Primary School 3284

Mount Waverley North Primary School 5430

Mountain Gate Primary School 4905

Moyhu Primary School 1335

Murtoa College 1549

Natte Yallock Primary School 1347

Olinda Primary School 3494

Poowong Consolidated School 6245

Rainbow Primary School 3313

Rangeview Primary School 5431

Red Hill Consolidated School 6249

Rolling Hills Primary School 5241

Sassafras Primary School 3222

Somers Primary School 4458

Spring Gully Primary School 3505

Stawell Primary School 502

The Basin Primary School 2329

Upwey Primary School 4530

Weeden Heights Primary School 5157

Woori Yallock Primary School 1259

Yaapeet Primary School 3976

Yellingbo Primary School 4705

Greek (13 schools) School no.Clarinda Primary School 3336

Coburg Primary School 484

Lalor North Primary School 5035

Pinewood Primary School 4874


Richmond Primary School 5269

Serpell Primary School 5168

Stonnington Primary School 1896

Sunshine Heights Primary School 4744


Westgarth Primary School 4177



Hindi (1 school) School no.


Rangebank Primary School 5232

Indonesian (161 schools) School no.Albany Rise Primary School 5427

Anakie Primary School 1910

Anglesea Primary School 4332

Antonio Park Primary School 4844

Apollo Bay P-12 College 6203

Ballam Park Primary School 5005

Bandiana Primary School 4691

Barwon Heads Primary School 1574

Bayswater North Primary School 4143

Beaconsfield Upper Primary School 2560

Bealiba Primary School 749

Beechworth Primary School 1560

Benalla East Primary School 2256

Benalla Primary School 31

Bethanga Primary School 1883

Big Hill Primary School 1551

Bolwarra Primary School 1324

Bonbeach Primary School 4798


Bridgewater Primary School 1097

Broken Creek Primary School 862

Camp Hill Primary School 1976

Campbells Creek Primary School 120

Carisbrook Primary School 1030

Carlisle River Primary School 3497

Carraragarmungee Primary School 1704

Casterton Primary School 2058

Castlemaine North Primary School 2051


Colac South West Primary School 4775

Coleraine Primary School 2118

Courtenay Gardens Primary School 5371

Craigieburn South Primary School 5243

Cranbourne Carlisle Primary School 5510

Creekside K-9 College 8909

Creswick Primary School 122

Croydon Hills Primary School 5255

Darraweit Guim Primary School 878

Dederang Primary School 1772

Devenish Primary School 1764

Drysdale Primary School 1645

Eastbourne Primary School 5133

Echuca West Primary School 3916

Elliminyt Primary School 2028

Elmore Primary School 1515

Eltham Primary School 209

Elwood Primary School 3942

Eppalock Primary School 1788

Eskdale Primary School 2318

Fountain Gate Primary School 5072

Glen Huntly Primary School 3703

Glenrowan Primary School 1742

Goroke P-12 College 6223

Grasmere Primary School 5381

Great Ryrie Primary School 5478

Greenvale Primary School 890

Guildford Primary School 264

Heany Park Primary School 5345

Herne Hill Primary School 4681

Hesket Primary School 1004

Heyfield Primary School 1108

Heywood Consolidated School 6225

Hughesdale Primary School 4176

Kangaroo Flat Primary School 981

Karingal Heights Primary School 5053

Karoo Primary School 5295

Kinglake Primary School 2188


Koroit And District Primary School 618

Kyabram P-12 College 7965

Kyneton Primary School 343

Langley Primary School 1275

Leitchville Primary School 2087

Leongatha Primary School 2981

Leopold Primary School 1146

Lilydale West Primary School 5057

Little River Primary School 1961

Lloyd Street Primary School 4139

Lorne - Aireys Inlet P-12 College 2162


Lysterfield Primary School 1866

Mandama Primary School 5185

Manifold Heights Primary School 4224

Manor Lakes P-12 College 8848

Maramba Primary School 5293

Marlborough Primary School 5045

Marong Primary School 400

Mckinnon Primary School 4366

Mentone Primary School 2950

Merino Consolidated School 6237

Mickleham Primary School 1051

Middle Indigo Primary School 1115

Mitcham Primary School 2904

Moolap Primary School 1911

Mount Beauty Primary School 4644

Mount Eliza Primary School 1368

Mount Pleasant Road Nunawading Primary School 4808

Murrabit Group School 3859

Nanneella Estate Primary School 3708

Narrawong District Primary School 5382

Narre Warren South P-12 College 8839

New Gisborne Primary School 467

Newport Lakes Primary School 113

Newstead Primary School 452

Newtown Primary School 1887

Nhill College 8833

Noojee Primary School 4098

Oatlands Primary School 5363

Ocean Grove Primary School 3100

Pakenham Consolidated School 6243

Park Ridge Primary School 5281

Pinewood Primary School 4874

Plenty Parklands Primary School 1915

Point Cook P-9 College 4159

Portland North Primary School 1194

Portland Primary School 489

Portland South Primary School 4750

Pyramid Hill College 1712

Quarry Hill Primary School 1165

Redesdale Mia Mia Primary School 2571

Ringwood Heights Primary School 4911

Ringwood North Primary School 4120

Rochester Primary School 795


Seaford Park Primary School 5191

Seaford Primary School 3835

Somerville Primary School 2656

Somerville Rise Primary School 5372

Sorrento Primary School 1090

Specimen Hill Primary School 1316

Springside P-9 College 8911

St Leonards Primary School 866


Stratford Primary School 596

Strathaird Primary School 5463

Strathfieldsaye Primary School 1211

Surfside Primary School 5354

Tallangatta Primary School 1365

Tarnagulla Primary School 1023

Tarwin Valley Primary School 5420

The Lake Primary School 3581

Thomas Mitchell Primary School 5294

Thoona Primary School 2056

Timbarra P-9 College 5479

Tootgarook Primary School 4661

Torquay P-6 College 3368

Tyabb Railway Station Primary School 3544

Tylden Primary School 621

Upper Sandy Creek Primary School 3145

Vermont Primary School 1022

Walwa Primary School 2806

Wandin North Primary School 3892

Wantirna South Primary School 4582

Warburton Primary School 1485

Warrenheip Primary School 1591

Wedderburn College 6262

Weeden Heights Primary School 5157

Welton Primary School 4041

Winters Flat Primary School 652

Winton Primary School 1870

Yackandandah Primary School 1103

Yarra Road Primary School 4219


Italian (166 schools) School no.Aberfeldie Primary School 4220

Albert Park Primary School 1181

Albion North Primary School 4855

Alphington Primary School 3599

Altona P-9 College 8857

Andersons Creek Primary School 5104

Apollo Parkways Primary School 5184

Ardeer South Primary School 5064

Armadale Primary School 2634

Arthurs Creek Primary School 1666

Ascot Vale Primary School 2608

Baden Powell P-9 College 5315

Baimbridge College 8814

Ballam Park Primary School 5005

Bayles Regional Primary School 5421

Bayswater West Primary School 5039

Bell Primary School 4309

Bellbrae Primary School 319

Belle Vue Primary School 4733

Bentleigh West Primary School 4318

Birmingham Primary School 5048

Birregurra Primary School 723

Blackburn Lake Primary School 4860

Brighton Primary School 1542

Brunswick East Primary School 3179

Brunswick North Primary School 3585

Brunswick South West Primary School 4304

Cairnlea Park Primary School 1434

Camberwell South Primary School 4170

Canterbury Primary School 3572

Cardross Primary School 4263

Carlton North Primary School 1252

Carnegie Primary School 2897

Caulfield South Primary School 4315

Ceres Primary School 1602

Chalcot Lodge Primary School 5231

Cheltenham East Primary School 4754


Chilwell Primary School 2061


Daylesford Primary School 1609


Diamond Creek Primary School 1003

Donburn Primary School 5019

Doreen Primary School 945

Drummond Primary School 1848

Eildon Primary School 3931

Elphinstone Primary School 220

Eltham North Primary School 4212

Essendon North Primary School 4015

Everton Primary School 5399

Fawkner Primary School 3590

Fitzroy North Primary School 1490

Flemington Primary School 250

Footscray Primary School 253

Footscray West Primary School 3890

Fyans Park Primary School 4919

Gladesville Primary School 5066

Gladstone Park Primary School 5007

Glen Katherine Primary School 5260

Glenferrie Primary School 1508

Greenhills Primary School 4893

Grovedale Primary School 283

Grovedale West Primary School 5076

Hamilton (Gray Street) Primary School 295

Hamlyn Banks Primary School 4804


Hartwell Primary School 4055

Hepburn Primary School 767

Highton Primary School 304

Horsham Primary School 5548

Hurstbridge Primary School 3939

Invergordon Primary School 4896

Iramoo Primary School 5152

Ivanhoe Primary School 2436

Kangaroo Ground Primary School 2105

Keilor Views Primary School 5539

Kew East Primary School 3161

Kialla Central Primary School 1366

Kialla West Primary School 1727



Kingsville Primary School 3988

Koo Wee Rup Primary School 2629

Laburnum Primary School 4863

Lalor North Primary School 5035

Mackellar Primary School 5297

Malvern Primary School 2586

Manorvale Primary School 5091

Melrose Primary School 5141


Mentone Park Primary School 4955

Mernda Primary School 488

Milawa Primary School 737

Mill Park Heights Primary School 5325

Mill Park Primary School 5160

Monbulk Primary School 3265

Mont Albert Primary School 3943

Moomba Park Primary School 4876

Moonee Ponds Central School 3987

Moriac Primary School 4117

Mossfiel Primary School 5002

Mount Evelyn Primary School 3642

Mount Ridley P-12 College 8853

Mullum Primary School 4886

Myrtleford P-12 College 8873

North Melbourne Primary School 1402

Orrvale Primary School 3805

Osbornes Flat Primary School 1463

Oxley Primary School 1399

Panton Hill Primary School 1134

Park Orchards Primary School 4854

Parktone Primary School 4843

Pascoe Vale North Primary School 4731

Pascoe Vale Primary School 3081

Pascoe Vale South Primary School 4704

Patterson Lakes Primary School 5190

Penders Grove Primary School 3806

Porepunkah Primary School 1144

Preston North East Primary School 4764

Preston Primary School 1494

Preston West Primary School 3885

Princes Hill Primary School 2955

Reservoir West Primary School 4711

Ripponlea Primary School 4087

Rollins Primary School 4867

Rosanna Primary School 4568

Rowville Primary School 5000

Roxburgh Homestead Primary School 5443

Roxburgh Rise Primary School 5493

Sandringham Primary School 267

Seabrook Primary School 5337

Shepparton (St Georges Road) Primary School 4666

Shepparton East Primary School 1713

Spensley Street Primary School 3146

St Albans Meadows Primary School 5118

St Kilda Park Primary School 2460

Strathewen Primary School 3947

Strathmore Primary School 4612

Streeton Primary School 5438

Surrey Hills Primary School 2778

Tallygaroopna Primary School 3067

Teesdale Primary School 2065

Templestowe Heights Primary School 5004

Templestowe Valley Primary School 4985

Tooradin Primary School 1503

Trentham District Primary School 1588

Tucker Road Bentleigh Primary School 4687

Tullamarine Primary School 4852

Undera Primary School 1771


Wallarano Primary School 5055

Wandiligong Primary School 275

Wangaratta Primary School 643

Watsonia Heights Primary School 4935

Watsonia Primary School 4838

Westmeadows Primary School 982

Whitfield District Primary School 5397

Whorouly Primary School 1373

Williamstown Primary School 1183

Winchelsea Primary School 2015

Woodlands Primary School 5319


Yandoit Primary School 691


Yarrambat Primary School 2054

Yarraville West Primary School 2832

Yarrawonga P-12 College 8883

Japanese (140 schools) School no.Alexandra Primary School 912

Alfredton Primary School 1091

Altona Primary School 3923

Appin Park Primary School 5207

Aspendale Primary School 4193

Bairnsdale Primary School 754

Ballarat (Dana Street) Primary School 33

Balnarring Primary School 1698

Banyan Fields Primary School 3613

Bayside P-12 College 8800

Beaufort Primary School 60

Beaumaris North Primary School 4803

Beaumaris Primary School 3899

Bell Park North Primary School 4962

Benton Junior College 5488

Berwick Chase Primary School 5503

Birchip P-12 School 8832

Black Hill Primary School 2043

Bona Vista Primary School 3612

Box Hill North Primary School 4717

Briar Hill Primary School 4341

Bright P-12 College 776

Brighton Beach Primary School 2048

Buln Buln Primary School 2017

Buninyong Primary School 1270

Bunyip Primary School 2229

Carranballac P-9 College 5486

Caulfield Primary School 5489

Chatham Primary School 4314

Clayton North Primary School 734

Clayton South Primary School 4384

Clunes Primary School 1552

Cobains Primary School 4387

Cohuna Consolidated School 6211

Darnum Primary School 2319

Dartmoor Primary School 1035

Derinya Primary School 4996

Derrinallum P-12 College 5375

Dromana Primary School 184

Ellinbank Primary School 2189

Emerald Primary School 3381

Essendon Primary School 483

Euroa Primary School 1706

Ferntree Gully North Primary School 4718

Frankston Primary School 1464

Gardenvale Primary School 3897

Gembrook Primary School 2506

Glen Waverley South Primary School 5436


Greensborough Primary School 2062

Gruyere Primary School 2956


Hawthorn West Primary School 293

Heathmont East Primary School 4819

Huntingdale Primary School 4716

Jamieson Primary School 814

Jeparit Primary School 2988

Kalinda Primary School 5121

Kananook Primary School 5418

Katamatite Primary School 2069

Kent Park Primary School 5082

Kerrimuir Primary School 4816

Kinglake West Primary School 3255

Kings Park Primary School 5236


Kingswood Primary School 5106

Lake Bolac College 854

Launching Place Primary School 2599

Lethbridge Primary School 1386

Lilydale Primary School 876

Longwood Primary School 2707

Lucknow Primary School 1231

Malvern Central School 1604

Malvern Valley Primary School 4669

Monmia Primary School 5336

Moonee Ponds West Primary School 2901

Mount Duneed Regional Primary School 5380


Mount Egerton Primary School 1918

Mount Martha Primary School 5171


Mount Waverley Primary School 3432

Movelle Primary School 5139

Murrumbeena Primary School 3449

Myrniong Primary School 487

Newport Gardens Primary School 4665

Niddrie Primary School 5410

Nilma Primary School 2712

Norris Bank Primary School 3618

Oak Park Primary School 4721

Oakleigh Primary School 1601

Oakleigh South Primary School 4823

Overport Primary School 4780

Peranbin Primary College 5367

Ballarat (Pleasant Street) Primary School 695

Red Hill Consolidated School 6249

Roberts McCubbin Primary School 5419


Ruskin Park Primary School 4916

Rutherglen Primary School 522

Sale Primary School 545

Sandringham East Primary School 4429

Selby Primary School 4685

Skye Primary School 1222

Solway Primary School 4641

Spotswood Primary School 3659

Springhurst Primary School 1583

St Kilda Primary School 1479


Strathmore North Primary School 4821

Sussex Heights Primary School 4832

Sydenham - Hillside Primary School 3559

Syndal South Primary School 4924

Taggerty Primary School 2544

Templestowe Park Primary School 5129

The Patch Primary School 5173

Thornton Primary School 1371

Timboon P-12 School 6260

Tinternvale Primary School 5075

Toolangi Primary School 3237

Trawalla Primary School 1150

Upper Ferntree Gully Primary School 3926

Upwey South Primary School 4894

Urquhart Park Primary School 2103

Valkstone Primary School 4778

Viewbank Primary School 4892

Waaia Yalca South Primary School 5401

Wantirna Primary School 3709

Warrandyte Primary School 12

Warranwood Primary School 3476

Warrnambool Primary School 1743

Waverley Meadows Primary School 5105

Wendouree Primary School 1813

Williamstown North Primary School 1409

Windermere Primary School 1856

Woady Yaloak Primary School 5440

Wodonga Primary School 37


Yarrunga Primary School 4761

Yering Primary School 1034

Zeerust Primary School 4359

Karen (1 school) School no.Wyndham Park Primary School 5540

Korean (4 schools) School no.Chelsea Primary School 3729

Mordialloc Beach Primary School 846

Ormond Primary School 3074


Macedonian (2 schools) School no.Lalor North Primary School 5035


Portuguese (1 school) School no.Stanley Primary School 550

Serbian (1 school) School no.



Spanish (19 schools) School no.Ascot Vale West Primary School 4025

Berwick Primary School 40

Boneo Primary School 1184

Bungaree Primary School 1960


Clayton South Primary School 4384


Geelong (Tate Street) Primary School 4398


Hastings Primary School 1098

Jindivick Primary School 1951

Mountain Gate Primary School 4905

Orchard Grove Primary School 5285

Point Lonsdale Primary School 3322

Regency Park Primary School 5131

Sherbrooke Community School 6252

Winchelsea Primary School 2015

Wooragee Primary School 653


Turkish (5 schools) School no.Coburg Primary School 484

Coolaroo South Primary School 4952


Dallas Brooks Community Primary School 5546

Meadow Heights Primary School 5227

Vietnamese (6 schools) School no.Abbotsford Primary School 1886


Footscray Primary School 253

Richmond West Primary School 5044

Southmoor Primary School 4910

Sunshine North Primary School 4745


Appendix 3: Languages by Government Secondary Schools, 2012

Aboriginal Languages (4 schools) School no.Bright P-12 College 776

Heywood District Secondary College 7910

Two Rivers College 8877

Woolum Bellum College 8879

Arabic (4 schools) School no.Bayside P-12 College 8800

Pascoe Vale Girls Secondary College 8227

Preston Girls Secondary College 8240

Thomastown Secondary College 8383

Auslan (5 schools) School no.Bendigo Senior Secondary College 7595

Bendigo South East 7-10 Secondary College 7837

Charles La Trobe P-12 College 8890

Forest Hill College 8724

Shepparton High School 8320

Chinese (Mandarin) (47 schools) School no.Alkira Secondary College 8874

Ashwood Secondary College 8743

Bacchus Marsh College 8777

Balwyn High School 7550

Bendigo Senior Secondary College 7595


Box Hill High School 7635

Brighton Secondary College 7650

Brunswick Secondary College 8807

Camberwell High School 7680

Charles La Trobe P-12 College 8890

Collingwood College 6212

Cranbourne East Secondary College 8898

Doncaster Secondary College 7776

East Doncaster Secondary College 7773

Elwood College 7810

Essendon East Keilor District College 8806


Glen Eira College 8704

Glen Waverley Secondary College 8808

Hawkesdale P-12 College 5434

Hawthorn Secondary College 7934

Horsham College 8818

Kew High School 7950

Keysborough Secondary College 8867

Koonung Secondary College 7954

Kurnai College 8716

Lowanna College 8821

Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College 8022

Melbourne Girls College 8819

Merbein P-10 College 8886

Mount Clear College 7267

Mount Eliza Secondary College 8102

Neerim District Secondary College 8145

Northcote High School 8180


Red Cliffs Secondary College 8260

Stawell Secondary College 8731

Suzanne Cory High School 8866

Templestowe College 8823

Thornbury High School 8797

Traralgon College 8803

Victoria University Secondary College 8891

Wantirna College 8428


Werribee Secondary College 8465

Westall Secondary College 8470

Classical Greek (1 school) School no.Balwyn High School 7550

French (81 schools) School no.


Albert Park College 8889

Ararat College 8753

Ashwood Secondary College 8743

Balwyn High School 7550

Bellarine Secondary College 8250


Blackburn High School 7610



Camberwell High School 7680

Canterbury Girls Secondary College 7690

Carwatha P-12 College 5435

Castlemaine Secondary College 8824

Colac Secondary College 8864

Croydon Maroondah College 8912

Crusoe 7-10 Secondary College 7205

Dandenong High School 8858

Donald High School 7775


Drouin Secondary College 7785

Eaglehawk Secondary College 7790

Eltham High School 7805

Elwood College 7810


Frankston High School 7850

Gisborne Secondary College 7857

Gladstone Park Secondary College 7858

Glen Eira College 8704


Hampton Park Secondary College 8709

Highvale Secondary College 7918

John Monash Science School 8856


Keysborough Secondary College 8867



Kyneton Secondary College 7970


Lalor Secondary College 7985

Lilydale High School 7995

Lyndale Secondary College 8000

MacRobertson Girls High School 8135

Mansfield Secondary College 8010


Mckinnon Secondary College 8125

Melbourne Girls College 8819

Melbourne High School 8025

Mentone Girls Secondary College 8030

Monterey Secondary College 8809

Montmorency Secondary College 8068

Mordialloc College 8075


Norwood Secondary College 8185

Nossal High School 8865

Pakenham Secondary College 8223

Parkdale Secondary College 8225


Princes Hill Secondary College 8245

Ringwood Secondary College 8270

Roxburgh College 8407

Rutherglen High School 8300

Sandringham College 8739

Scoresby Secondary College 8307

South Gippsland Secondary College 7845

St Albans Secondary College 8330

Staughton College 7247

Suzanne Cory High School 8866

Swinburne Senior Secondary College 7366

Tarneit Senior College 8854

Terang College 6236

University High School 8405

Upwey High School 8415

Vermont Secondary College 8420

Victorian College Of The Arts Secondary School 7384

Warrnambool College 8811


Wellington Secondary College 8462


Western Heights Secondary College 8820

Wheelers Hill Secondary College 8474

Williamstown High School 8475

Appendix 5: Secondary schools by language 83

German (56 schools) School no.Bairnsdale Secondary College 8466

Ballarat High School 7540

Bayswater Secondary College 7560



Berwick Secondary College 7603


Boronia K-12 College 8913

Box Hill High School 7635

Brentwood Secondary College 7647


Buckley Park College 7670

Bundoora Secondary College 7874


Cranbourne Secondary College 7747



Dimboola Memorial Secondary College 7770

East Loddon P-12 College 6217

Edenhope College 5432

Endeavour Hills Secondary College 8871

Fairhills High School 7823

Fountain Gate Secondary College 8870

Geelong High School 7855

Gleneagles Secondary College 8869

Heathmont College 8816

Highvale Secondary College 7918

Hopetoun P-12 College 8904

Horsham College 8818

Kambrya College 8421

Kurnai College 8716

Macleod College 6242


Mckinnon Secondary College 8125


Melton Secondary College 8027

Mill Park Secondary College 8775

Mirboo North Secondary College 8050

Monbulk College 8065

Mooroolbark College 8071


Mount Waverley Secondary College 8105

Mullauna Secondary College 8744

Murtoa College 1549

North Geelong Secondary College 7856

Oberon High School 8210

Patterson River Secondary College 8725

Phoenix P-12 Community College 8900

Rainbow Secondary College 8255

Stawell Secondary College 8731



Upper Yarra Secondary College 8410


Viewbank College 8812

Wangaratta High School 8425

Greek (7 schools) School no.Balwyn High School 7550




South Oakleigh Secondary College 8801

Strathmore Secondary College 8345


Indonesian (98 schools) School no.Alexandra Secondary College 7505


Ballarat Secondary College 8828

Beechworth Secondary College 7575

Bellarine Secondary College 8250

Belmont High School 7585

Benalla College 8810



Bentleigh Secondary College 7255




Brookside P-9 College 8908

Casterton Secondary College 7695


Chaffey Secondary College 7250

Charlton College 8830

Corryong College 8843

Craigieburn Secondary College 8705

Creekside K-9 College 8909


Dromana Secondary College 7122

Echuca College 8855

Elisabeth Murdoch College 8722


Fountain Gate Secondary College 8870


Gleneagles Secondary College 8869

Glenroy Secondary College 8893

Goroke P-12 College 6223

Heathmont College 8816

Irymple Secondary College 7198

Kerang Technical High School 7945


Kyneton Secondary College 7970

Lara Secondary College 8841

Leongatha Secondary College 8745

Lilydale Heights College 7219

Lilydale High School 7995



Lyndhurst Secondary College 7108


Maffra Secondary College 8005

Manor Lakes P-12 College 8848

Mansfield Secondary College 8010

Maryborough Education Centre 8845



Merbein P-10 College 8886

Mildura Senior College 8045

Mooroopna Secondary College 8073

Mornington Secondary College 8804

Mount Beauty Secondary College 8100


Mount Erin Secondary College 7028

Mullauna Secondary College 8744


Nathalia Secondary College 8140

Newcomb Secondary College 8151

Nhill College 8833

Norwood Secondary College 8185


Orbost Secondary College 8215

Parkwood Secondary College 8226

Patterson River Secondary College 8725

Point Cook P-9 College 4159

Portland Secondary College 8798

Pyramid Hill College 1712

Red Cliffs Secondary College 8260

Ringwood Secondary College 8270

Rochester Secondary College 8280

Rosebud Secondary College 8290

Rowville Secondary College 8734


Seymour College 8884

Somerville Secondary College 8875

Surf Coast Secondary College 8903

Swan Hill College 8802

Tallangatta Secondary College 8370


Timbarra P-9 College 5479

Trafalgar High School 8395


Wallan Secondary College 8791


Warragul Regional College 8827

Warrnambool College 8811

Wedderburn College 6262


Western Port Secondary College 7896

Wheelers Hill Secondary College 8474

Whittlesea Secondary College 7408



Wodonga Middle Years College 8851

Wodonga Senior Secondary College 8480

Wonthaggi Secondary College 8736

Yea High School 8500

Italian (69 schools) School no.Altona P-9 College 8857

Baden Powell P-9 College 5315


Belmont High School 7585

Brunswick Secondary College 8807

Chaffey Secondary College 7250

Cheltenham Secondary College 7720

Copperfield College 8799

Craigieburn Secondary College 8705

Daylesford Secondary College 7115

Diamond Valley College 8746


East Doncaster Secondary College 7773

Elisabeth Murdoch College 8722

Epping Secondary College 7813


Fitzroy High School 8742

Footscray City College 8836

Galvin Park Secondary College 7402

Gilmore College for Girls 7841

Gladstone Park Secondary College 7858


Greensborough Secondary College 8750

Grovedale College 7183

Hoppers Crossing Secondary College 8710

Irymple Secondary College 7198

John Fawkner Secondary College 8894

Keilor Downs Secondary College 8715

Koo Wee Rup Secondary College 7955

Korumburra Secondary College 7960

Kurunjang Secondary College 8718

Lalor North Secondary College 7986




Maribyrnong Secondary College 8015

McGuire College 7331

Mildura Senior College 8045

Mill Park Secondary College 8775


Mooroopna Secondary College 8073

Mount Alexander 7-12 College 7763


Myrtleford P-12 College 8873





Reservoir High School 8708

Rosehill Secondary College 7275

Rowville Secondary College 8734



St Helena Secondary College 8730


Sunbury College 8350

Sunbury Downs Secondary College 8723

Sunshine College 8790

Taylors Lakes Secondary College 8787

The Grange P-12 College 8783




Wanganui Park Secondary College 8422


Warrandyte High School 8437


William Ruthven Secondary College 8895

Yarra Hills Secondary College 8815

Japanese (85 schools) School no.Alexandra Secondary College 7505

Bairnsdale Secondary College 8466

Ballarat High School 7540



Beaufort Secondary College 7565

Bentleigh Secondary College 7255

Birchip P-12 School 8832

Brauer Secondary College 7395

Brentwood Secondary College 7647



Broadford Secondary College 7655

Buckley Park College 7670


Carrum Downs Secondary College 8423

Cobram Secondary College 7725

Cohuna Secondary College 7735

Copperfield College 8799


Dandenong High School 8858


Dromana Secondary College 7122

Drouin Secondary College 7785

Elwood College 7810

Emerald Secondary College 8707


Euroa Secondary College 7820

Fairhills High School 7823


Frankston High School 7850

Geelong High School 7855


Grovedale College 7183

Healesville High School 7900

John Monash Science School 8856

Kambrya College 8421

Keilor Downs Secondary College 8715




Leongatha Secondary College 8745




Malvern Central School 1604

McClelland Secondary College 8835


Melton Secondary College 8027


Monbulk College 8065

Montmorency Secondary College 8068

Mornington Secondary College 8804

Mount Clear College 7267


Mount Waverley Secondary College 8105

Noble Park Secondary College 8813

Nossal High School 8865

Numurkah Secondary College 8190


Parkdale Secondary College 8225


Rosebud Secondary College 8290

Rosehill Secondary College 7275

Sale College 8834


Shepparton High School 8320

South Oakleigh Secondary College 8801




Taylors Lakes Secondary College 8787

Timboon P-12 School 6260

Upper Yarra Secondary College 8410

Upwey High School 8415

Viewbank College 8812

Wanganui Park Secondary College 8422


Warracknabeal Secondary College 8430

Warragul Regional College 8827




Wodonga Middle Years College 8851

Wodonga Senior Secondary College 8480

Wonthaggi Secondary College 8736


Latin (2 schools) School no.Dandenong High School 8858


Macedonian (3 schools) School no.Epping Secondary College 7813



Spanish (4 schools) School no.Creekside K-9 College 8909




Turkish (1 school) School no. Roxburgh Secondary College 8407

Vietnamese (8 schools) School no.Braybrook College 7645

Gilmore Girls College 7841



Sunshine College 8790





Appendix 4: Government Primary Schools and Languages Provided, 2012

School name Language School no.Abbotsford Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Vietnamese 8857

Aberfeldie Primary School Italian 6203

Airly Primary School Auslan 5315

Albany Rise Primary School Indonesian 8814

Albert Park Primary School French and Italian 8872

Albion North Primary School Italian 8800

Alexandra Primary School Japanese 8832

Alfredton Primary School Japanese 8882

Alphington Primary School Italian 8913

Altona P-9 College Italian 776

Altona Primary School Japanese 5486

Alvie Consolidated School Chinese (Mandarin) 5435

Amphitheatre Primary School French 6212

Amsleigh Park Primary School German 8909

Anakie Primary School Indonesian 5375

Andersons Creek Primary School Italian 6217

Anglesea Primary School Indonesian 5432

Antonio Park Primary School Indonesian 6223

Apollo Bay P-12 College Indonesian 5434

Apollo Parkways Primary School Italian 7965

Appin Park Primary School Japanese 854

Ararat North Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 6231

Ararat Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 2162

Ararat West Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 6242

Ardeer South Primary School Italian 1604

Armadale Primary School Italian 8848

Arthurs Creek Primary School Italian 3987

Ascot Vale Primary School Italian 8853

Ascot Vale West Primary School Spanish 1549

Ashby Primary School German 8873

Aspendale Gardens Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 8839

Aspendale Primary School Japanese 8833

Athlone Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 4159

Auburn Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1712

Auburn South Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 6252

Bacchus Marsh Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 8911

Baden Powell P-9 College Italian 8892

Baimbridge College Italian 6236


Bairnsdale Primary School Japanese 8846

Bairnsdale West Primary School Auslan 5479

Ballam Park Primary School Indonesian and Italian 6260

Ballarat (Dana Street) Primary School Japanese 6262

Ballarat (Pleasant Street) Primary School Japanese 7405

Balliang East Primary School Auslan and Chinese (Mandarin) 6257

Balmoral K-12 Community College French 8831

Balnarring Primary School Japanese 8883

Balwyn North Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1886

Balwyn Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 4220

Bandiana Primary School Indonesian 4169

Banyan Fields Primary School Japanese 5427

Baranduda Primary School French 1181

Barwon Heads Primary School Indonesian 4855

Bayles Regional Primary School Italian 912

Bayside P-12 College Arabic, Italian and Japanese 1091

Bayswater North Primary School Indonesian 3599

Bayswater Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 3923

Bayswater South Primary School German 6201

Bayswater West Primary School Italian 1637

Beaconsfield Primary School German 5428

Beaconsfield Upper Primary School Indonesian 1910

Bealiba Primary School Indonesian 5104

Beaufort Primary School Japanese 4332

Beaumaris North Primary School Japanese 4844

Beaumaris Primary School Japanese 5184

Beechworth Primary School Indonesian 5207

Bell Park North Primary School Japanese 4995

Bell Primary School Italian 800

Bellaire Primary School French 4720

Bellbrae Primary School Italian 5064

Belle Vue Primary School Italian 2634

Benalla East Primary School Indonesian 1666

Benalla Primary School Indonesian 2608

Bentleigh West Primary School Italian 4025

Benton Junior College Japanese 1492

Berwick Chase Primary School Japanese 5301

Berwick Primary School Spanish 4193

Bethanga Primary School Indonesian 3623

Beverley Hills Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 2948

Big Hill Primary School Indonesian 4183

Billanook Primary School German 28

Bimbadeen Heights Primary School German 754

Appendix 4: Primary schools and languages provided 91

Birchip P-12 School Japanese 4725

Birmingham Primary School Italian 5005

Birregurra Primary School Italian 33

Black Hill Primary School Japanese 695

Black Rock Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 3787

Blackburn Lake Primary School Italian 1698

Blackburn Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 4638

Bolinda Primary School French 1026

Bolwarra Primary School Indonesian 4691

Bona Vista Primary School Japanese 3613

Bonbeach Primary School Indonesian 2222

Boneo Primary School German and Spanish 1574

Boort District P-12 School French and Indonesian 5421

Boronia Heights Primary School German 4143

Boronia K-12 College German 2163

Box Hill North Primary School Japanese 4973

Brandon Park Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5039

Branxholme-Wallacedale Community School German 3033

Briagolong Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 2560

Briar Hill Primary School Japanese 749

Bridgewater Primary School Indonesian 60

Bright P-12 College Aboriginal Languages, German and Japanese 4803

Brighton Beach Primary School Japanese 3899

Brighton Primary School Italian 1560

Broadford Primary School Auslan 4962

Broken Creek Primary School Indonesian 4309

Brunswick East Primary School Italian 4873

Brunswick North Primary School Italian 319

Brunswick South West Primary School Italian 4733

Buangor Primary School French 2256

Buln Buln Primary School Japanese 31

Bungaree Primary School Spanish 4318

Buninyong Primary School Japanese 5488

Bunyip Primary School Japanese 5503

Burwood East Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 40

Cairnlea Park Primary School Italian 1883

Caledonian Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 4813

Camberwell Primary School French 1551

Camberwell South Primary School Italian 5193

Camelot Rise Primary School French 5011


Camp Hill Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Indonesian 5048

Campbells Creek Primary School Indonesian 723

Canterbury Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Italian 2043

Cardinia Primary School Auslan 3631

Cardross Primary School Italian 4860

Carisbrook Primary School Indonesian 2923

Carlisle River Primary School Indonesian 1070

Carlton Gardens Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1324

Carlton North Primary School Italian 3612

Carnegie Primary School Italian 4798

Carranballac P-9 College Japanese 1184

Carraragarmungee Primary School Indonesian 4967

Carrington Primary School French 4717

Carrum Primary School German 5038

Carwatha P-12 College French 5377

Casterton Primary School Indonesian 1117

Castlemaine North Primary School Indonesian 4341

Castlemaine Primary School French 1097

Caulfield Junior College French 2048

Caulfield Primary School Japanese 1542

Caulfield South Primary School Italian 1125

Cavendish Primary School German 862

Ceres Primary School Italian 3179

Chalcot Lodge Primary School Italian 3585

Chandler Park Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 4304

Chatham Primary School Japanese 2072

Chelsea Primary School Korean 2017

Cheltenham East Primary School Italian 1960

Cheltenham Primary School French, German, Indonesian, Italian and Spanish 1270

Chewton Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 2229

Chiltern Primary School French 454

Chilwell Primary School Italian 1434

Chum Creek Primary School Auslan 5384

Clarinda Primary School Greek 888

Clarkefield Primary School French 4170

Clayton North Primary School Japanese 5111

Clayton South Primary School Japanese and Spanish 1976

Clifton Hill Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and French 120

Clunes Primary School Japanese 3572

Coatesville Primary School French 3689

Cobains Primary School Japanese 4263

Coburg Primary School Greek, Italian and Turkish 1030


Cohuna Consolidated School Japanese 3497

Coimadai Primary School Auslan and Chinese (Mandarin) 2605

Colac South West Primary School Indonesian 1252

Coleraine Primary School Indonesian 2897

Collingwood College Chinese (Mandarin) 1704

Concongella Primary School German 5426

Coolaroo South Primary School Arabic and Turkish 3385

Courtenay Gardens Primary School Indonesian 2058

Craigieburn South Primary School Indonesian 2051

Cranbourne Carlisle Primary School Indonesian, Spanish and Turkish 119

Cranbourne East Primary School Auslan 3820

Creekside K-9 College Indonesian and Spanish 5489

Creswick North Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 4315

Creswick Primary School Indonesian 116

Croydon Hills Primary School Indonesian 1602

Dallas Brooks Community Primary School Arabic and Turkish 5231

Dallas North Primary School Auslan 5533

Dandenong North Primary School French 4314

Dandenong Primary School French 3729

Darnum Primary School Japanese 4754

Darraweit Guim Primary School Indonesian 84

Dartmoor Primary School Japanese 1054

Daylesford Primary School Italian 327

Debney Meadows Primary School Arabic, Italian and Vietnamese 2061

Dederang Primary School Indonesian 3279

Deepdene Primary School French 3336

Delacombe Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 3035

Derinya Primary School Japanese 734

Derrimut Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 4384

Derrinallum P-12 College Japanese 1360

Devenish Primary School Indonesian 1552

Diamond Creek East Primary School Auslan 4712

Diamond Creek Primary School Italian 4387

Dimboola Primary School German 484

Don Valley Primary School German 6211

Donburn Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Italian 716

Doncaster Gardens Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 4775

Doncaster Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 2118

Doreen Primary School Italian 1136

Dorset Primary School French 4952

Dromana Primary School Japanese 5371

Drummartin Primary School Auslan 5243


Drummond Primary School Italian 5510

Drysdale Primary School Indonesian 5518

Dunolly Primary School Auslan 2041

East Bentleigh Primary School French 122

East Loddon P-12 College German 5255

Eastbourne Primary School Indonesian 5546

Eastwood Primary School Auslan 4933

Echuca West Primary School Indonesian 4723

Edenhope College German 1403

Edithvale Primary School French 2319

Eildon Primary School Italian 878

Elliminyt Primary School Indonesian 1035

Ellinbank Primary School Japanese 1609

Elmhurst Primary School French 5068

Elmore Primary School Indonesian 1772

Elphinstone Primary School Italian 3680

Elsternwick Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5201

Eltham North Primary School Italian 4996

Eltham Primary School Indonesian 5512

Elwood Primary School Indonesian 1764

Emerald Primary School Japanese 5037

Eppalock Primary School Indonesian 1003

Epsom Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1372

Eskdale Primary School Indonesian 3956

Essendon North Primary School Italian 5019

Essendon Primary School Japanese 5454

Euroa Primary School Japanese 197

Everton Primary School Italian 945

Exford Primary School Auslan 5132

Fairfield Primary School French 184

Falls Creek Primary School French 1473

Fawkner Primary School Italian 1848

Ferntree Gully North Primary School Japanese 1645

Fitzroy North Primary School Italian 1582

Flemington Primary School Italian 4837

Footscray City Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5133

Footscray Primary School Italian and Vietnamese 4702

Footscray West Primary School Italian 3916

Fountain Gate Primary School Indonesian 3790

Frankston Primary School Japanese 3931

Fyans Park Primary School Italian 2028

Gardenvale Primary School Japanese 2189


Geelong (Tate Street) Primary School Spanish 959

Gembrook Primary School Japanese 1515

Gladesville Primary School Italian 220

Gladstone Park Primary School Italian 2870

Glen Huntly Primary School Indonesian 4212

Glen Iris Primary School French 209

Glen Katherine Primary School Italian 3942

Glen Waverley Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 3381

Glen Waverley South Primary School Japanese 1788

Glendal Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and French 2367

Glenferrie Primary School Italian 2318

Glenrowan Primary School Indonesian 4015

Golden Square Primary School Auslan and Chinese (Mandarin) 483

Gordon Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1706

Goroke P-12 College Indonesian 5399

Grasmere Primary School Indonesian and Japanese 3423

Great Ryrie Primary School Indonesian 2711

Great Western Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5067

Greenhills Primary School Italian 3590

Greensborough Primary School Japanese 4718

Greenvale Primary School Indonesian 1490

Greythorn Primary School French 250

Grovedale Primary School Italian 1912

Grovedale West Primary School Auslan and Italian 253

Gruyere Primary School Japanese 3890

Guildford Primary School Indonesian 5072

Guthridge Primary School French 1464

Halls Gap Primary School German 4919

Hamilton (Gray Street) Primary School Italian 3897

Hamlyn Banks Primary School Italian 4398

Hampton Primary School French, Italian, Japanese and Spanish 2506

Harrietville Primary School German 5066

Harrisfield Primary School Auslan 5007

Hartwell Primary School Italian 3703

Hastings Primary School Spanish 1148

Hawkesdale P-12 College Chinese (Mandarin) 5260

Hawthorn West Primary School Japanese 5425

Heany Park Primary School Indonesian 5436

Heathcote Primary School French 5010

Heathmont East Primary School Japanese 1508

Hepburn Primary School Italian 1742

Herne Hill Primary School Indonesian 5531


Hesket Primary School Indonesian 755

Heyfield Primary School Indonesian 5381

Heywood Consolidated School Indonesian 5478

Highton Primary School Italian 860

Highvale Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and German 4893

Hoddles Creek Primary School German 2062

Horsham Primary School Auslan and Italian 890

Horsham West - Haven Primary School German 4694

Hughesdale Primary School Indonesian 283

Huntingdale Primary School Japanese 5076

Hurstbridge Primary School Italian 2956

Invergordon Primary School Italian 264

Invermay Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 4853

Iramoo Primary School Italian 3058

Ivanhoe Primary School Italian 295

Jamieson Primary School Japanese 4804

Jells Park Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 3754

Jeparit Primary School Japanese 843

Jindivick Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Spanish 4730

Kalinda Primary School Japanese 4055

Kananook Primary School Japanese 1098

Kangaroo Flat Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Indonesian 293

Kangaroo Ground Primary School Italian 5345

Karingal Heights Primary School Indonesian 300

Karoo Primary School Indonesian 4819

Katamatite Primary School Japanese 767

Katunga South Primary School French 4681

Keilor Views Primary School Italian 1004

Kennington Primary School Auslan 1108

Kent Park Primary School Japanese 6225

Kerrimuir Primary School Japanese 304

Kew East Primary School Italian 4986

Kew Primary School French 2541

Keysborough Primary School French 5548

Kialla Central Primary School Italian 4697

Kialla West Primary School Italian 4176

Kinglake Primary School Indonesian 4716

Kinglake West Primary School Japanese 3939

Kings Park Primary School Japanese 4896

Kingsbury Primary School Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Indonesian, Italian and Japanese 882

Kingsville Primary School Italian 5152

Kingswood Primary School Japanese 2436


Knox Gardens Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 814

Knox Park Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5176

Koo Wee Rup Primary School Italian 2988

Koorlong Primary School Auslan 1951

Koroit and District Primary School Indonesian 5121

Kunyung Primary School French 5418

Kyabram P-12 College French and Indonesian 981

Kyneton Primary School Indonesian 2105

Labertouche Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5053

Laburnum Primary School Italian 5295

Laharum Primary School Dutch 2069

Lake Bolac College French and Japanese 2269

Lake Charm Primary School Auslan 5539

Lal Lal Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 3686

Lalor North Primary School Greek, Italian and Macedonian 5082

Landsborough Primary School French 4816

Langley Primary School Indonesian 3161

Lardner and District Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1075

Launching Place Primary School Japanese 5534

Laurimar Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1366

Lavers Hill P-12 College French 1727

Learmonth Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 2188

Leitchville Primary School Indonesian 3255

Leongatha Primary School Indonesian 5236

Leopold Primary School Indonesian 4845

Lethbridge Primary School Japanese 3988

Lilydale Primary School Japanese 5106

Lilydale West Primary School Indonesian 5234

Little Bendigo Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 4990

Little River Primary School Indonesian 2629

Livingstone Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and German 3470

Lloyd Street Primary School Indonesian 618

Longwarry Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5182

Longwood Primary School Japanese 343

Lorne - Aireys Inlet P-12 College Indonesian 2471

Lucknow Primary School Japanese 4863

Lynbrook Primary School Auslan 2805

Lysterfield Primary School Indonesian 2122

Macarthur Primary School French 863

Mackellar Primary School Italian 5035

Macleod College German 1862

Malmsbury Primary School French 1275


Malvern Central School Japanese 5393

Malvern Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Italian 2599

Malvern Valley Primary School Japanese 5497

Mandama Primary School Indonesian 386

Manifold Heights Primary School Indonesian 2087

Manor Lakes P-12 College Indonesian 2981

Manorvale Primary School Italian 1146

Maramba Primary School Indonesian 1386

Marlborough Primary School Indonesian 876

Marlo Primary School German 5057

Marnoo Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 2093

Marong Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Indonesian 1961

Maroona Primary School French 5113

Mckinnon Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Indonesian 4139

Meadow Heights Primary School Turkish 2505

Melrose Primary School Italian 2707

Melton Primary School French, German and Italian 1231

Mentone Park Primary School Italian 5494

Mentone Primary School Indonesian 1866

Meredith Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1571

Merino Consolidated School Indonesian 5297

Mernda Primary School Italian 1408

Merrigum Primary School Auslan 2586

Merrijig Primary School French 4669

Mickleham Primary School Indonesian 5185

Middle Indigo Primary School Indonesian 4224

Middle Kinglake Primary School Auslan 5091

Middle Park Primary School French 5293

Milawa Primary School Italian 5045

Mildura South Primary School Auslan 3433

Milgate Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1554

Mill Park Heights Primary School Italian 400

Mill Park Primary School Italian 1943

Mitcham Primary School Indonesian 4366

Moe (Albert Street) Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5227

Monbulk Primary School Aboriginal Languages and Italian 5141

Monmia Primary School Japanese 430

Mont Albert Primary School Italian 4955

Montmorency South Primary School French 2950

Montpellier Primary School French 1420

Moolap Primary School Indonesian 6237

Moomba Park Primary School Italian 488


Moonambel Primary School French 1874

Moonee Ponds Central School Italian 1379

Moonee Ponds West Primary School Japanese 1051

Moorabbin Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1115

Morang South Primary School Auslan 3315

Mordialloc Beach Primary School Korean 2815

Moriac Primary School Italian 737

Mornington Park Primary School French 4389

Mornington Primary School French 5212

Morwell (Commercial Road) Primary School German 5325

Morwell Park Primary School German 5160

Mossfiel Primary School Italian 2904

Mossgiel Park Primary School German 2142

Mount Beauty Primary School Indonesian 3265

Mount Blowhard Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5336

Mount Clear Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 3943

Mount Dandenong Primary School German 4925

Mount Duneed Regional Primary School Japanese 4972

Mount Egerton Primary School Japanese 1911

Mount Eliza North Primary School French 4876

Mount Eliza Primary School Indonesian 1683

Mount Evelyn Primary School Italian 2901

Mount Macedon Primary School French 1111

Mount Martha Primary School Japanese 1975

Mount Pleasant Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 846

Mount Pleasant Road Nunawading Primary School Indonesian 4117

Mount Ridley P-12 College Italian and Japanese 5040

Mount View Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 2033

Mount Waverley North Primary School German 2136

Mount Waverley Primary School Japanese 4975

Mountain Gate Primary School German and Spanish 5002

Movelle Primary School Japanese 5205

Moyhu Primary School German 4644

Mulgrave Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 2037

Mullum Primary School Italian 427

Murrabit Group School Indonesian 3284

Murrumbeena Primary School Japanese 5380

Murtoa College German 1918

Myrniong Primary School Japanese 5140

Myrtleford P-12 College Italian 1368


Nangiloc Colignan and District Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 3642

Nanneella Estate Primary School Indonesian 415

Napoleons Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and French 5171

Narracan Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1436

Narrawong District Primary School Indonesian 4808

Narre Warren North Primary School Auslan 4923

Narre Warren South P-12 College Indonesian 5430

Natte Yallock Primary School German 3432

Navarre Primary School French 4905

Neerim District Rural Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5139

Neerim South Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1335

New Gisborne Primary School Indonesian 2172

Newborough East Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 4886

Newham Primary School French 3859

Newport Gardens Primary School Japanese 3449

Newport Lakes Primary School Indonesian 487

Newstead Primary School Indonesian 5402

Newtown Primary School Indonesian 3708

Nhill College Indonesian 1072

Niddrie Primary School Japanese 2295

Nilma Primary School Japanese 5382

Noojee Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Indonesian 1901

Norris Bank Primary School Japanese 1347

North Melbourne Primary School Italian 1330

Numurkah Primary School French 5394

Nyora Primary School Aboriginal Languages 2432

Oak Park Primary School Japanese 467

Oakleigh Primary School Japanese 4670

Oakleigh South Primary School Japanese 1913

Oatlands Primary School Indonesian 4665

Ocean Grove Primary School Indonesian 113

Officer Primary School Auslan 452

Olinda Primary School French and German 1887

Orchard Grove Primary School Auslan and Spanish 5410

Ormond Primary School Korean 2712

Orrvale Primary School Italian 4098

Osbornes Flat Primary School Italian 3618

Overport Primary School Japanese 1402

Oxley Primary School Italian 2134

Pakenham Consolidated School Indonesian 3401

Panton Hill Primary School Italian 4721

Park Orchards Primary School Italian 1601


Park Ridge Primary School Indonesian 4823

Parkhill Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5363

Parkmore Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 3100

Parktone Primary School Italian 2742

Pascoe Vale North Primary School Italian 3494

Pascoe Vale Primary School Italian 5285

Pascoe Vale South Primary School Italian 3074

Patterson Lakes Primary School French and Italian 3805

Paynesville Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1463

Penders Grove Primary School Italian 4780

Pentland Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1399

Peranbin Primary College Japanese 6243

Pinewood Primary School Greek and Indonesian 1134

Plenty Parklands Primary School Indonesian 4854

Point Cook P-9 College Indonesian 5281

Point Lonsdale Primary School Spanish 5416

Pomonal Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 4881

Poowong Consolidated School German 4843

Porepunkah Primary School Italian 4731

Port Melbourne Primary School French 3081

Portland North Primary School Indonesian 4704

Portland Primary School Indonesian 5190

Portland South Primary School Indonesian 2343

Preston North East Primary School Italian 3806

Preston Primary School Italian 5369

Preston South Primary School Chinese (Mandarin), Greek and Macedonian 5367

Preston West Primary School Italian 4874

Princes Hill Primary School Italian 1915

Pyramid Hill College Indonesian 3322

Quarry Hill Primary School Indonesian 2859

Rainbow Primary School German 6245

Rangebank Primary School Hindi 1144

Rangeview Primary School German 2932

Red Cliffs East Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1194

Red Cliffs Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 489

Red Hill Consolidated School German and Japanese 4750

Redesdale Mia Mia Primary School Indonesian 4764

Regency Park Primary School Spanish 1494

Reservoir West Primary School Italian 824

Richmond Primary School Greek 3885

Richmond West Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Vietnamese 2955

Ringwood Heights Primary School Indonesian 1165


Ringwood North Primary School Indonesian 3313

Ripplebrook Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5232

Ripponlea Primary School Italian 5431

Roberts McCubbin Primary School Japanese 4123

Rochester Primary School Indonesian 4057

Rokewood Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 6249

Rolling Hills Primary School German 2571

Rollins Primary School Italian 5131

Rosanna Golf Links Primary School Auslan 4711

Rosanna Primary School Italian 5269

Rosewood Downs Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5044

Rowellyn Park Primary School Auslan, Indonesian and Japanese 4911

Rowville Primary School Italian 4120

Roxburgh Homestead Primary School Italian 2129

Roxburgh Rise Primary School Italian 4087

Rupanyup Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5419

Ruskin Park Primary School Japanese 795

Rutherglen Primary School Japanese 531

Sale Primary School Japanese 5241

Sandringham East Primary School Japanese 4867

Sandringham Primary School Italian 4753

Sassafras Primary School German 4568

Scoresby Primary School French 5087

Seabrook Primary School Italian 5313

Seaford Park Primary School Indonesian 5000

Seaford Primary School Indonesian 5443

Selby Primary School Japanese 5493

Serpell Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Greek 1595

Seville Primary School Auslan 4916

Shepparton (Guthrie Street) Primary School Auslan 522

Shepparton (St Georges Road) Primary School Italian 545

Shepparton East Primary School Italian 4429

Sherbrooke Community School Spanish 267

Skipton Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 3222

Skye Primary School Japanese 1028

Solway Primary School Japanese 5337

Somers Primary School Auslan and German 5191

Somerville Primary School Indonesian 3835

Somerville Rise Primary School Indonesian 4685

Sorrento Primary School Indonesian 5168

South Yarra Primary School French 2820


Southern Cross Primary School French 5020

Southmoor Primary School Vietnamese 4666

Specimen Hill Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Indonesian 1713

Spensley Street Primary School Italian 582

Spotswood Primary School Japanese 1222

Spring Gully Primary School German 4641

Springhurst Primary School Japanese 4458

Springside P-9 College Indonesian 2656

St Albans East Primary School Auslan 5372

St Albans Meadows Primary School Italian 1090

St Arnaud Primary School French 583

St Kilda Park Primary School Italian 5235

St Kilda Primary School Japanese 4910

St Leonards Primary School Indonesian 1316

Stanley Primary School French, Indonesian, Japanese and Portuguese 3146

Stawell Primary School German 3659

Stawell West Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 3505

Stonnington Primary School Greek 1583

Stratford Primary School Indonesian 4741

Strathaird Primary School Indonesian 5118

Strathewen Primary School Italian 1646

Strathfieldsaye Primary School Indonesian 2460

Strathmore North Primary School Japanese 1479

Strathmore Primary School Italian 866

Streeton Primary School Italian 550

Sunshine Heights Primary School Greek 502

Sunshine North Primary School Vietnamese 4934

Surfside Primary School Indonesian 1896

Surrey Hills Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Italian 596

Sussex Heights Primary School Japanese 5463

Swifts Creek School Auslan 3947

Sydenham - Hillside Primary School Japanese 1211

Syndal South Primary School Japanese 4821

Taggerty Primary School Japanese 4612

Talbot Primary School French 5438

Talgarno Primary School French 4744

Tallangatta Primary School Indonesian 4745

Tallygaroopna Primary School Italian 5354

Tarnagulla Primary School Indonesian 2778

Tarwin Valley Primary School Indonesian 4832

Teesdale Primary School Italian 3559

Templestowe Heights Primary School Italian 4924


Templestowe Park Primary School Japanese 2544

Templestowe Valley Primary School Italian 954

Templeton Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1954

Terang College French 1365

The Basin Primary School German 3067

The Lake Primary School Indonesian 1023

The Lakes South Morang P-9 School Auslan 5420

The Patch Primary School Japanese 2065

Thomas Mitchell Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Indonesian 5004

Thoona Primary School Indonesian 5129

Thornton Primary School Japanese 4985

Timbarra P-9 College Indonesian 5196

Timboon P-12 School Japanese 2329

Timor Primary School French 3581

Tinternvale Primary School Japanese 5173

Tongala Primary School French 5294

Toolangi Primary School Japanese 2056

Toora Primary School French 1371

Tooradin Primary School Italian 1207

Toorak Primary School French 5075

Tootgarook Primary School Indonesian 6255

Torquay P-6 College Indonesian 3237

Traralgon (Liddiard Road) Primary School Auslan 2253

Trawalla Primary School Japanese 1503

Trentham District Primary School Italian 3016

Tucker Road Bentleigh Primary School Italian 4661

Tullamarine Primary School Italian 3368

Tyabb Railway Station Primary School Indonesian 4700

Tylden Primary School Indonesian 1150

Undera Primary School Italian 1588

Upper Ferntree Gully Primary School Japanese 4687

Upper Sandy Creek Primary School Indonesian 4852

Upwey Primary School German 3544

Upwey South Primary School Japanese 621

Urquhart Park Primary School Japanese 1771

Valkstone Primary School Japanese 3926

Vermont Primary School Indonesian 3145

Viewbank Primary School Japanese 4530

Waaia Yalca South Primary School Japanese 4894

Wahgunyah Primary School French 2103

Wales Street Primary School Chinese (Mandarin), Greek and Italian 4778

Wallarano Primary School Italian 1022


Walwa Primary School Indonesian 4892

Wandiligong Primary School Italian 5401

Wandin North Primary School Indonesian 644

Wandin Yallock Primary School French 3139

Wangaratta Primary School Italian 5055

Wantirna Primary School Japanese 2806

Wantirna South Primary School Indonesian 275

Warburton Primary School Indonesian 3892

Warrandyte Primary School Japanese 1033

Warranwood Primary School Japanese 643

Warrenheip Primary School Indonesian 3709

Warrnambool Primary School Japanese 4582

Watsonia Heights Primary School Italian 1485

Watsonia Primary School Italian 12

Wattle Park Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 3476

Waverley Meadows Primary School Japanese 1591

Wedderburn College Indonesian 1743

Weeden Heights Primary School German and Indonesian 4935

Weeroona College Bendigo Chinese (Mandarin), French and Indonesian 4838

Welton Primary School Indonesian 3841

Wendouree Primary School Japanese 5105

Werrimull P-12 School Chinese (Mandarin) 5157

Wesburn Primary School Auslan 4041

Westgarth Primary School Greek 1813

Westmeadows Primary School Italian 3466

Wheelers Hill Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and French 4177

White Hills Primary School French 982

Whitehorse Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5094

Whitfield District Primary School Italian 1916

Whorouly Primary School Italian 5530

Willaura Primary School French 5397

Williamstown North Primary School Japanese 1373

Williamstown Primary School Italian 2662

Willmott Park Primary School Auslan 1409

Willow Grove Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 1183

Willowmavin Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5342

Winchelsea Primary School Italian and Spanish 2520

Windermere Primary School Japanese 3479

Winters Flat Primary School Indonesian 2015

Winton Primary School Indonesian 1856

Woady Yaloak Primary School Japanese 652

Wodonga Primary School Japanese 1870


Woodlands Primary School Italian 5440

Woodside Primary School Auslan 37

Wooragee Primary School Spanish 5319

Wooranna Park Primary School French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Serbian and Spanish 1176

Woori Yallock Primary School German 653

Woorinen District Primary School Auslan 4989

Wycheproof P-12 College Chinese (Mandarin) 1259

Wyndham Park Primary School Karen 5439

Yaapeet Primary School German 5540

Yackandandah Primary School Indonesian 3976

Yandoit Primary School Italian 1103

Yarra Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Greek 691

Yarra Road Primary School Indonesian 5271

Yarrambat Primary School Italian 4219

Yarraville West Primary School Italian 2054

Yarrawonga P-12 College Italian 2832

Yarrunga Primary School Japanese 4761

Yawarra Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) 5429

Yellingbo Primary School German 4705

Yering Primary School Japanese 1034

Zeerust Primary School Japanese 4359


Appendix 5: Government Secondary Schools and Languages Provided, 2012

School name Language School no.Albert Park College French 8889

Alexandra Secondary College Indonesian and Japanese 7505

Alkira Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin) 8874

Altona P-9 College Italian 8857

Apollo Bay P-12 College Indonesian 6203

Ararat College French 8753

Ashwood Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin) and French 8743

Bacchus Marsh College Chinese (Mandarin) 8777

Baden Powell P-9 College Italian 5315

Bairnsdale Secondary College German and Japanese 8466

Ballarat High School German and Japanese 7540

Ballarat Secondary College Indonesian 8828

Balwyn High School Chinese (Mandarin), Classical Greek, French and Greek 7550

Bayside P-12 College Arabic, Italian and Japanese 8800

Bayswater Secondary College German 7560

Beaufort Secondary College Japanese 7565

Beechworth Secondary College Indonesian 7575

Bellarine Secondary College French and Indonesian 8250

Belmont High School Indonesian and Italian 7585

Benalla College Indonesian 8810

Bendigo Senior Secondary College Auslan, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German and Indonesian 7595

Bendigo South East 7-10 Secondary College

Auslan, Chinese (Mandarin), German and Indonesian 7837

Bentleigh Secondary College Indonesian and Japanese 7255

Berwick Secondary College German and Indonesian 7603

Birchip P-12 School Japanese 8832

Blackburn High School French and German 7610

Boort District P-12 School French and Indonesian 8882

Boronia K-12 College German 8913

Box Hill High School Chinese (Mandarin) and German 7635

Brauer Secondary College Japanese 7395

Braybrook College Vietnamese 7645

Brentwood Secondary College German and Japanese 7647

Bright P-12 College Aboriginal Languages, German and Japanese 776

Brighton Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), French and Japanese 7650


School name Language School no.Broadford Secondary College Japanese 7655

Brookside P-9 College Indonesian 8908

Brunswick Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin) and Italian 8807

Buckley Park College German and Japanese 7670

Bundoora Secondary College German 7874

Camberwell High School Chinese (Mandarin) and French 7680

Canterbury Girls Secondary College French and Japanese 7690

Carrum Downs Secondary College Japanese 8423

Carwatha P-12 College French 5435

Casterton Secondary College Indonesian 7695

Castlemaine Secondary College French and Indonesian 8824

Chaffey Secondary College Indonesian and Italian 7250

Charles La Trobe P-12 College Auslan and Chinese (Mandarin) 8890

Charlton College Indonesian 8830

Cheltenham Secondary College Italian 7720

Cobram Secondary College Japanese 7725

Cohuna Secondary College Japanese 7735

Colac Secondary College French 8864

Collingwood College Chinese (Mandarin) 6212

Copperfield College Italian and Japanese 8799

Corryong College Indonesian 8843

Craigieburn Secondary College Indonesian and Italian 8705

Cranbourne East Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin) 8898

Cranbourne Secondary College German 7747

Creekside K-9 College Indonesian and Spanish 8909

Croydon Maroondah College French, German and Japanese 8912

Crusoe 7-10 Secondary College French, German and Indonesian 7205

Dandenong High School French, Japanese and Latin 8858

Daylesford Secondary College Italian 7115

Derrinallum P-12 College Japanese 5375

Diamond Valley College Italian 8746

Dimboola Memorial Secondary College German 7770

Donald High School French 7775

Doncaster Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), French and Italian 7776

Dromana Secondary College Indonesian and Japanese 7122

Drouin Secondary College French and Japanese 7785

Eaglehawk Secondary College French 7790

East Doncaster Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin) 7773

East Loddon P-12 College German 6217

Echuca College Indonesian 8855

Edenhope College German 5432

Appendix 5: Secondary schools and languages provided 109

School name Language School no.

Elisabeth Murdoch College Indonesian and Italian 8722

Eltham High School French and Indonesian 7805

Elwood College Chinese (Mandarin), French and Japanese 7810

Emerald Secondary College Japanese 8707

Endeavour Hills Secondary College German 8871

Epping Secondary College Italian and Macedonian 7813

Essendon East Keilor District College Chinese (Mandarin), Italian and Japanese 8806

Euroa Secondary College Japanese 7820

Fairhills High School German and Japanese 7823

Fitzroy High School Italian 8742

Footscray City College Italian, Japanese and Spanish 8836

Forest Hill College Auslan, Chinese (Mandarin) and French 8724

Fountain Gate Secondary College German and Indonesian 8870

Frankston High School French and Japanese 7850

Galvin Park Secondary College Italian 7402

Geelong High School German and Japanese 7855

Gilmore College for Girls Italian and Vietnamese 7841

Gisborne Secondary College French, Indonesian and Japanese 7857

Gladstone Park Secondary College French and Italian 7858

Glen Eira College Chinese (Mandarin) and French 8704

Glen Waverley Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), French and Italian 8808

Gleneagles Secondary College German and Indonesian 8869

Glenroy Secondary College Indonesian 8893

Goroke P-12 College Indonesian 6223

Greensborough Secondary College Italian 8750

Grovedale College Italian and Japanese 7183

Hampton Park Secondary College French 8709

Hawkesdale P-12 College Chinese (Mandarin) 5434

Hawthorn Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), Greek and Vietnamese 7934

Healesville High School Japanese 7900

Heathmont College German and Indonesian 8816

Heywood District Secondary College Aboriginal Languages 7910

Highvale Secondary College French and German 7918

Hopetoun P-12 College German 8904

Hoppers Crossing Secondary College Italian 8710

Horsham College Chinese (Mandarin) and German 8818

Irymple Secondary College Indonesian and Italian 7198

John Fawkner Secondary College Italian 8894

John Monash Science School French and Japanese 8856


School name Language School no.Kambrya College German and Japanese 8421

Keilor Downs Secondary College Italian and Japanese 8715

Kerang Technical High School Indonesian 7945

Kew High School Chinese (Mandarin), French and Japanese 7950

Keysborough Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin) and French 8867

Koo Wee Rup Secondary College Italian 7955

Koonung Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), French and Japanese 7954

Korumburra Secondary College Italian 7960

Kurnai College Chinese (Mandarin) and German 8716

Kurunjang Secondary College Italian 8718

Kyabram P-12 College French and Indonesian 7965

Kyneton Secondary College French and Indonesian 7970

Lake Bolac College French and Japanese 854

Lalor North Secondary College Italian 7986

Lalor Secondary College French, Greek, Italian and Macedonian 7985

Lara Secondary College Indonesian 8841

Leongatha Secondary College Indonesian and Japanese 8745

Lilydale Heights College Indonesian and Japanese 7219

Lilydale High School French and Indonesian 7995

Lorne - Aireys Inlet P-12 College Indonesian 2162

Lowanna College Chinese (Mandarin), Indonesian and Italian 8821

Lyndale Secondary College French, Italian and Japanese 8000

Lyndhurst Secondary College Indonesian 7108

Macleod College German 6242

MacRobertson Girls High School French, German, Indonesian and Japanese 8135

Maffra Secondary College Indonesian 8005

Malvern Central School Japanese 1604

Manor Lakes P-12 College Indonesian 8848

Mansfield Secondary College French and Indonesian 8010

Maribyrnong Secondary College Italian 8015

Maryborough Education Centre Indonesian 8845

Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), French and Indonesian 8022

McClelland Secondary College Japanese 8835

McGuire College Italian 7331

Mckinnon Secondary College French and German 8125

Melbourne Girls College Chinese (Mandarin) and French 8819

Melbourne High School French, German, Indonesian and Japanese 8025

Melton Secondary College German and Japanese 8027

Mentone Girls Secondary College French and Japanese 8030



Merbein P-10 College Chinese (Mandarin) and Indonesian 8886

Mildura Senior College Indonesian and Italian 8045

Mill Park Secondary College German and Italian 8775

Mirboo North Secondary College German 8050

Monbulk College German and Japanese 8065

Monterey Secondary College French 8809

Montmorency Secondary College French and Japanese 8068

Moonee Ponds Central School Italian 3987

Mooroolbark College German 8071

Mooroopna Secondary College Indonesian and Italian 8073

Mordialloc College French 8075

Mornington Secondary College Indonesian and Japanese 8804

Mount Alexander 7-12 College Italian and Vietnamese 7763

Mount Beauty Secondary College Indonesian 8100

Mount Clear College Chinese (Mandarin) and Japanese 7267

Mount Eliza Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), German and Indonesian 8102

Mount Erin Secondary College Indonesian 7028

Mount Ridley P-12 College Italian and Japanese 8853

Mount Waverley Secondary College German and Japanese 8105

Mullauna Secondary College German and Indonesian 8744

Murtoa College German 1549

Myrtleford P-12 College Italian 8873

Narre Warren South P-12 College Indonesian 8839

Nathalia Secondary College Indonesian 8140

Neerim District Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin) 8145

Newcomb Secondary College Indonesian 8151

Nhill College Indonesian 8833

Noble Park Secondary College Japanese 8813

North Geelong Secondary College German 7856

Northcote High School Chinese (Mandarin), French, Greek and Italian 8180

Norwood Secondary College French and Indonesian 8185

Nossal High School French and Japanese 8865

Numurkah Secondary College Japanese 8190

Oberon High School German, Indonesian and Japanese 8210

Orbost Secondary College Indonesian 8215

Pakenham Secondary College French 8223

Parkdale Secondary College French and Japanese 8225

Parkwood Secondary College Indonesian 8226


School name Language School no.Pascoe Vale Girls Secondary College Arabic, French, Italian and Japanese 8227

Patterson River Secondary College German and Indonesian 8725

Phoenix P-12 Community College German 8900

Point Cook P- 9 College Indonesian 4159

Portland Secondary College Indonesian 8798

Preston Girls Secondary College Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin) and Italian 8240

Princes Hill Secondary College French and Italian 8245

Pyramid Hill College Indonesian 1712

Rainbow Secondary College German 8255

Red Cliffs Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin) and Indonesian 8260

Reservoir High School Italian 8708

Ringwood Secondary College French and Indonesian 8270

Rochester Secondary College Indonesian 8280

Rosebud Secondary College Indonesian and Japanese 8290

Rosehill Secondary College Italian and Japanese 7275

Rowville Secondary College Indonesian and Italian 8734

Roxburgh College French, Italian and Turkish 8407

Rutherglen High School French 8300

Sale College Japanese 8834

Sandringham College French, Indonesian and Japanese 8739

Scoresby Secondary College French 8307

Seymour College Indonesian 8884

Shepparton High School Auslan and Japanese 8320

Sherbrooke Community School Spanish 6252

Somerville Secondary College Indonesian 8875

South Gippsland Secondary College French 7845

South Oakleigh Secondary College Greek and Japanese 8801

St Albans Secondary College French, Italian, Japanese and Vietnamese 8330

St Helena Secondary College Italian 8730

Staughton College French 7247

Stawell Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin) and German 8731

Strathmore Secondary College Greek, Italian and Japanese 8345

Sunbury College Italian and Japanese 8350

Sunbury Downs Secondary College Italian 8723

Sunshine College Italian and Vietnamese 8790

Surf Coast Secondary College Indonesian 8903

Suzanne Cory High School Chinese (Mandarin) and French 8866

Swan Hill College Indonesian 8802

Swinburne Senior Secondary College French 7366

Tallangatta Secondary College Indonesian 8370

Tarneit Senior College French 8854



Taylors Lakes Secondary College Italian and Japanese 8787

Templestowe College Chinese (Mandarin) 8823

Terang College French 6236

The Grange P-12 College Italian 8783

Thomastown Secondary College Arabic, Italian, Macedonian and Vietnamese 8383

Thornbury High School Chinese (Mandarin), Greek, Indonesian and Italian 8797

Timbarra P-9 College Indonesian 5479

Timboon P-12 School Japanese 6260

Trafalgar High School Indonesian 8395

Traralgon College Chinese (Mandarin) and German 8803

Two Rivers College Aboriginal Languages 8877

University High School French, German and Latin 8405

Upper Yarra Secondary College German and Japanese 8410

Upwey High School French and Japanese 8415

Vermont Secondary College French, German and Indonesian 8420

Victoria University Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), Italian and Vietnamese 8891

Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School French 7384

Viewbank College German and Japanese 8812

Wallan Secondary College Indonesian 8791

Wanganui Park Secondary College Italian and Japanese 8422

Wangaratta High School German, Italian and Japanese 8425

Wantirna College Chinese (Mandarin), Indonesian and Spanish 8428

Warracknabeal Secondary College Japanese 8430

Warragul Regional College Indonesian and Japanese 8827

Warrandyte High School Italian 8437

Warrnambool College French and Indonesian 8811

Wedderburn College Indonesian 6262

Weeroona College Bendigo Chinese (Mandarin), French and Indonesian 7405

Wellington Secondary College French 8462

Werribee Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), Italian, Japanese and Spanish 8465

Westall Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), French and Vietnamese 8470

Western Heights Secondary College French and Japanese 8820

Western Port Secondary College Indonesian 7893

Wheelers Hill Secondary College French and Indonesian 8474


School name Language School no.Whittlesea Secondary College Indonesian 7408

William Ruthven Secondary College Italian 8895

Williamstown High School French, Indonesian and Japanese 8475

Wodonga Middle Years College Indonesian and Japanese 8851

Wodonga Senior Secondary College Indonesian and Japanese 8480

Wonthaggi Secondary College Indonesian and Japanese 8736

Woolum Bellum College Aboriginal Languages 8879

Yarra Hills Secondary College Italian 8815

Yea High School Indonesian 8500


Appendix 6: VSL Centres and Languages Provided, 2012VSL centre Languages1. Altona North Campus (Bayside P-12

College)Arabic, Croatian, Macedonian and Vietnamese

2. Ballarat High School Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Greek and Italian

3. Beaconhills College (Pakenham) Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi and Spanish

4. Bendigo Senior Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), French and German

5. Bentleigh Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), Greek, Russian and Turkish

6. Blackburn High School Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Punjabi and Vietnamese

7. Box Hill High School Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, German, Italian, Persian and Spanish

8. Brentwood Secondary College (Glen Waverley)

Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese and Sinhala

9. Brimbank College (St Albans) Arabic, Bosnian, Spanish and Vietnamese

10. Brunswick Secondary College Albanian, Greek, Indonesian, Italian and Turkish

11. Carwatha College (Noble Park) Arabic, Bosnian, French, Greek, Italian, Sinhala and Spanish

12. Cobram Secondary College Arabic

13. Collingwood College Lithuanian, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese

14. Croydon Secondary College Chin (Falam), Chin (Hakha), Chinese (Mandarin) and Karen

15. Dandenong High School Albanian, Chinese (Mandarin), Dari, Filipino, Hindi, Hungarian, Macedonian, Persian, Polish, Pushto, Romanian, Serbian, Tigrinya and Turkish

16. Doncaster Secondary College Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin) and Greek

17. Footscray City College Amharic, Greek, Spanish and Vietnamese

18. Galvin Park Secondary College (Werribee)

Albanian, Bosnian, Karen, Korean, Punjabi, Sinhala and Tamil

19. Gisborne Secondary College French and Italian

20. Glen Waverley Secondary College Bulgarian, Chinese (Mandarin), French, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian and Japanese

21. Haileybury College (Keysborough) Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese

22. Hampton Park Secondary College Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, Japanese, Khmer, Punjabi and Sinhala

23. John Fawkner College (Fawkner) Arabic, Greek, Italian, Syriac and Vietnamese

24. Keilor Downs College Croatian, Greek, Macedonian and Turkish

25. Lalor Secondary College Arabic and Vietnamese

26. McKinnon Secondary College Hebrew and Russian


VSL centre Languages27. Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary

College (Geelong)Chinese (Mandarin), German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish

28. Mildura Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), Italian, Hindi and Turkish

29. Mill Park Secondary College Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Greek, Hindi, Italian, and Sinhala

30. North Geelong Secondary College Bosnian, Croatian, Karen, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Turkish and Vietnamese

31. Roxburgh College (Roxburgh Park) Arabic, Sinhala, Spanish, and Turkish

32. Shepparton High School Albanian, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dari, Dinka, Dutch, Filipino, French, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Persian, Punjabi, Swahili and Turkish

33. Sunshine Secondary College Chin (Hakha), Chin (Matu), Dinka, Hindi and Vietnamese

34. Taylors Lakes Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), Maltese and Punjabi

35. Thomastown Secondary College Macedonian, Punjabi and Turkish

36. Traralgon (Grey St Primary School) Chinese (Mandarin)

37. University High School (Parkville) Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Japanese, Polish and Spanish

38. Warrnambool College Chinese (Mandarin), French and Italian

39. Westall Secondary College Bengali, German, Khmer and Vietnamese

40. Wodonga West Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish

Appendix 6: VSL centres and Languages programs 117

Appendix 7: Schools without Languages programs, 2012

N/A = Information not available*indicates response based on 2011 data.

School nameCultural awareness program?

Ainslie Parklands Primary School Yes*

Aitken Creek Primary School No

Albanvale Primary School No

Alberton Primary School No

Albion Primary School No

Aldercourt Primary School Yes

Allansford and District Primary School N/A

Altona Green Primary School N/A

Altona Meadows Primary School Yes

Altona North Primary School No

Apsley Primary School No

Araluen Primary School No

Ardeer Primary School No

Ardmona Primary School Yes

Ashburton Primary School Yes

Athol Road Primary School Yes

Avenel Primary School Yes

Avoca Primary School Yes

Avondale Primary School Yes

Axedale Primary School No

Badger Creek Primary School No

Ballan Primary School Yes

Ballarat North Primary School Yes

Bannockburn Primary School No

Banyule Primary School Yes

Baringhup Primary School No

Barnawartha Primary School Yes

Bass Valley Primary School Yes

Baxter Primary School Yes

Beeac Primary School Yes

Belgrave South Primary School Yes

Bellbridge Primary School Yes

Belle Vue Park Primary School Yes

Belmont Primary School Yes



Belvedere Park Primary School Yes

Benalla West Primary School Yes

Bendigo Primary School Yes

Berwick Fields Primary School No

Berwick Lodge Primary School Yes

Bethal Primary School No

Beulah Primary School N/A

Beverford District Primary School No

Beveridge Primary School No

Birralee Primary School Yes*

Bittern Primary School No

Boisdale Consolidated School N/A

Boolarra Primary School Yes

Boronia West Primary School N/A

Boroondara Park Primary School Yes*

Box Hill Senior Secondary College No

Brentwood Park Primary School No

Broadmeadows Primary School N/A

Broadmeadows Valley Primary School Yes

Brunswick North West Primary School Yes

Brunswick South Primary School Yes*

Bruthen Primary School No

Buchan Primary School No

Bullarto Primary School No

Bundalaguah Primary School N/A

Bundarra Primary School Yes*

Bundoora Primary School Yes

Burwood Heights Primary School Yes

Buxton Primary School No

California Gully Primary School Yes

Cambridge Primary School No

Campbellfield Heights Primary School Yes

Camperdown College No

Canadian Lead Primary School Yes

Cann River P-12 College No

Cape Clear Primary School Yes*

Carlton Primary School No

Caulfield Park Community School No

Appendix 7: Schools without Languages programs 119


Chelsea Heights Primary School N/A

Chirnside Park Primary School Yes

Christmas Hills Primary School Yes

Churchill North Primary School Yes

Churchill Primary School Yes

Clifton Creek Primary School N/A

Clifton Springs Primary School Yes*

Clyde Primary School No

Cobden Primary School No

Cobden Technical School No

Cobram Primary School No

Coburg North Primary School N/A

Coburg Senior High School No

Coburg West Primary School Yes*

Coburn Primary School No

Cockatoo Primary School Yes*

Colac Primary School Yes

Colac West Primary School N/A

Colbinabbin Primary School No

Coldstream Primary School Yes*

Congupna Primary School No

Coral Park Primary School Yes

Cowes Primary School Yes

Cowwarr Primary School Yes

Craigieburn Primary School Yes

Cranbourne Park Primary School Yes

Cranbourne Primary School Yes

Cranbourne South Primary School Yes

Cranbourne West Primary School N/A

Crib Point Primary School Yes

Croydon Community School N/A

Croydon Primary School Yes

Cudgee Primary School Yes

Currawa Primary School No

Dandenong South Primary School No

Dandenong West Primary School Yes*

Darley Primary School Yes

Deans Marsh Primary School N/A

Deer Park North Primary School Yes


Deer Park West Primary School Yes

Devon Meadows Primary School Yes

Devon North Primary School Yes

Dhurringile Primary School Yes

Diggers Rest Primary School No

Dingley Primary School Yes

Dinjerra Primary School No

Dixons Creek Primary School Yes

Donald Primary School No

Donvale Primary School No

Dookie Primary School Yes

Doveton College No

Drouin Primary School Yes

Drouin South Primary School No

Drouin West Primary School No

Dunkeld Consolidated School No

Eagle Point Primary School Yes

Eaglehawk North Primary School No

Eaglehawk Primary School N/A

Echuca East Primary School No

Echuca Primary School Yes

Echuca South Primary School Yes

Edi Upper Primary School Yes

Epping Primary School N/A

Epping Views Primary School No

Essex Heights Primary School No

Fairhills Primary School No

Ferny Creek Primary School Yes

Findon Primary School No

Fish Creek and District Primary School No

Fitzroy Primary School No

Fleetwood Primary School N/A

Flowerdale Primary School No

Footscray North Primary School No

Forest Street Primary School Yes

Forrest Primary School Yes

Foster Primary School No

Frankston East Primary School Yes

Frankston Heights Primary School Yes



Garfield Primary School Yes

Geelong East Primary School Yes

Geelong South Primary School Yes

Girgarre Primary School Yes

Gisborne Primary School No

Gladstone Views Primary School Yes

Gladysdale Primary School Yes*

Glen Park Primary School No

Glengala/Sunshine West Primary School Yes

Glengarry Primary School Yes

Glenroy Central Primary School N/A

Glenroy West Primary School No

Goonawarra Primary School No

Goongerah P-8 School Yes

Goornong Primary School No

Gormandale And District Primary School N/A

Grahamvale Primary School Yes

Greta Valley Primary School No

Gunbower Primary School Yes

Haddon Primary School No

Hallam Primary School Yes

Hallam Senior Secondary College No

Hamilton (George Street) Primary School No

Hamilton North Primary School No

Hampton Park Primary School No

Harcourt Valley Primary School No

Harkaway Primary School Yes

Harston Primary School No

Hastings Westpark Primary School No

Hazelwood North Primary School Yes

Healesville Primary School Yes

Heatherhill Primary School No

Heidelberg Primary School Yes*

Highlands Primary School No

Hillsmeade Primary School Yes

Hume Central Secondary College No


Huntly Primary School Yes

Inglewood Primary School No

Inverleigh Primary School No

Inverloch Primary School Yes

Irymple Primary School No

Irymple South Primary School No

Ivanhoe East Primary School Yes*

James Cook Primary School Yes

Kallista Primary School Yes

Kaniva College Yes

Karingal Primary School Yes

Katandra West Primary School No

Katunga Primary School No

Keilor Heights Primary School Yes

Keilor Primary School No

Kensington Community High School Yes

Kensington Primary School Yes*

Kerang Primary School No

Kerang South Primary School Yes

Kiewa Valley Primary School No

Kilberry Valley Primary School Yes

Killara Primary School No

Kilmore Primary School Yes

Kilsyth Primary School No

Kingsley Park Primary School No

Kingston Heath Primary School Yes*

Kismet Park Primary School No

Kongwak Primary School Yes

Koondrook Primary School Yes

Kororoit Creek Primary School No

Korumburra Primary School Yes*

Kurunjang Primary School No

Lake Boga Primary School No

Lakes Entrance Primary School Yes

Lakes Entrance Secondary College Yes

Lakeview Senior College No

Lalbert Primary School No

Lalor East Primary School No

Lalor Gardens Primary School No



Lalor Primary School N/A

Lancaster Primary School Yes

Lancefield Primary School No

Lang Lang Primary School Yes

Langwarrin Park Primary School Yes*

Langwarrin Primary School N/A

Lara Lake Primary School Yes

Lara Primary School Yes

Laverton P-12 College No

Le Page Primary School Yes

Lemnos Primary School No

Lightning Reef Primary School Yes

Lindenow Primary School No

Lindenow South Primary School No

Linton Primary School No

Lismore Primary School No

Loch Primary School Yes

Loch Sport Primary School Yes

Lockington Consolidated School Yes

Lockwood Primary School No

Lockwood South Primary School Yes

Longford Primary School Yes

Lower Plenty Primary School No

Lynall Hall Community School No

Lyndale Greens Primary School No

Lyndhurst Primary School No

Macarthur Street Primary School No

Macclesfield Primary School Yes

Macedon Primary School Yes

Maffra Primary School N/A

Magpie Primary School Yes

Mahogany Rise Primary School No

Maiden Gully Primary School Yes

Maldon Primary School Yes

Mallacoota P-12 College Yes

Manangatang P-12 College No

Manchester Primary School Yes*

Mansfield Primary School No

Marysville Primary School No


Meadowglen Primary School N/A

Meadows Primary School N/A

Meerlieu Primary School N/A

Melton South Primary School No

Melton West Primary School No

Menzies Creek Primary School Yes

Merri Creek Primary School Yes*

Merrivale Primary School N/A

Metung Primary School No

Mildura Primary School Yes

Mildura West Primary School No

Millwarra Primary School N/A

Miners Rest Primary School N/A

Minyip Primary School No

Mirboo North Primary School Yes

Mitta Mitta Primary School Yes

Moe (South Street) Primary School Yes

Moe Primary School Yes

Montmorency Primary School N/A

Montrose Primary School No

Moorooduc Primary School No

Mooroolbark East Primary School No

Mooroopna North Primary School No

Mooroopna Park Primary School Yes

Mooroopna Primary School Yes

Moreland Primary School N/A

Mortlake P-12 College Yes

Morwell (Tobruk Street) Primary School No

Morwell Primary School Yes

Moyston Primary School No

Murchison Primary School No

Murrayville Community College Yes*

Myrrhee Primary School No

Nagambie Primary School No

Nambrok Denison Primary School Yes

Nar Nar Goon Primary School Yes

Nathalia Primary School Yes

Natimuk Primary School No

Newborough Primary School N/A



Newcomb Park Primary School Yes

Newhaven Primary School N/A

Newlands Primary School N/A

Newlyn Primary School No

Newmerella Primary School Yes

Nichols Point Primary School No

Nicholson Primary School Yes

Noble Park Primary School Yes

Noorat Primary School Yes

Noorinbee Primary School No

Northcote Primary School Yes*

Northern Bay P-12 College No

Northern College of the Arts and Technology No

Nowa Nowa Primary School Yes

Nullawarre and District Primary School Yes

Nullawil Primary School Yes

Nungurner Primary School Yes

Nyah District Primary School No

Oberon Primary School Yes

Oberon South Primary School Yes

Old Orchard Primary School No

Omeo Primary School No

Orbost North Primary School Yes

Orbost Primary School No

Osborne Primary School No

Ouyen P-12 College No

Pakenham Hills Primary School No

Pakenham Lakeside Primary School No

Pakenham Springs Primary School No

Panmure Primary School No

Parkdale Primary School Yes

Parkwood Green Primary School No

Pascoe Vale North Primary School N/A

Payika College Yes

Pearcedale Primary School Yes

Pembroke Primary School Yes

Penshurst Primary School Yes


Perseverance Primary School Yes

Peter Lalor Secondary College No

Piangil Primary School No

Point Cook Senior Secondary College N/A

Port Fairy Consolidated School Yes*

Portarlington Primary School No

Powlett River Primary School N/A

Puckapunyal Primary School No

Pyalong Primary School No

Quambatook Group School Yes

Queenscliff Primary School No

Ranfurly Primary School Yes

Rawson Primary School Yes

Raywood Primary School No

Research Primary School Yes*

Reservoir East Primary School No

Reservoir Primary School No

Reservoir Views Primary School No

Riddells Creek Primary School Yes

River Gum Primary School N/A

Robinvale P-12 College No

Rockbank Primary School No

Romsey Primary School Yes

Rosebud Primary School Yes

Rosedale Primary School Yes

Roslyn Primary School Yes

Roxburgh Park Primary School Yes

Rushworth P-12 College No

Rye Primary School Yes

San Remo Primary School Yes

Seaford North Primary School Yes

Seaholme Primary School Yes

Seaspray Primary School Yes

Sebastopol Primary School N/A

Shelford Primary School No

Shepparton (Bourchier) Street Primary School Yes

Shepparton (Gowrie Street) Primary School Yes

Shepparton (Wilmot Road) Primary No



School

Sherbourne Primary School Yes

Silvan Primary School Yes

Silverton Primary School Yes

Simpson Primary School Yes

Smeaton Primary School N/A

Spring Parks Primary School Yes

Springvale Rise Primary School No

St Albans Heights Primary School No

St Albans North Primary School No

St Albans Primary School No

St Andrews Primary School No

St Arnaud Secondary College N/A

Stanhope Primary School No

Stevensville Primary School No

Strathmerton Primary School No

Sunbury Heights Primary School No

Sunbury Primary School No

Sunbury West Primary School No

Sunnycliffs Primary School No

Sunshine Harvester Primary School Yes

Sunshine Primary School Yes

Swan Hill North Primary School Yes

Swan Hill Primary School N/A

Swan Reach Primary School Yes*

Sydney Road Community School No

Tallangatta Valley Primary School No

Tallarook Primary School Yes

Tambo Upper Primary School Yes

Tanjil South Primary School No

Taradale Primary School Yes

Tarwin Lower Primary School Yes*

Tatura Primary School Yes

Tawonga Primary School Yes

Taylors Hill Primary School No

Taylors Lakes Primary School Yes

Tecoma Primary School No

Tempy Primary School No

Thomas Chirnside Primary School Yes*


Thomastown East Primary School N/A

Thomastown Meadows Primary School No

Thomastown Primary School No

Thomastown West Primary School N/A

Thornbury Primary School Yes*

Thorpdale Primary School No

Tooborac Primary School Yes

Toolamba Primary School Yes

Toolern Vale and District Primary School Yes

Toongabbie Primary School Yes

Toorloo Arm Primary School N/A

Trafalgar Primary School Yes

Traralgon (Grey Street) Primary School No

Traralgon (Kosciuszko Street) Primary School No

Traralgon (Stockdale Road) Primary School No

Traralgon South Primary School Yes

Truganina South Primary School No

Tungamah Primary School N/A

Tyabb Primary School Yes

Tyers Primary School No

Tyrrell College Yes

Ultima Primary School No

Underbool Primary School Yes

University Park Primary School Yes

Upper Plenty Primary School Yes

Wallan Primary School No

Wallington Primary School Yes

Walpeup Primary School No

Wandong Primary School No

Wangaratta West Primary School No

Warracknabeal Primary School N/A

Warragul North Primary School Yes

Warragul Primary School Yes

Warrnambool East Primary School N/A

Warrnambool West Primary School No

Watsonia North Primary School Yes*



Wattle Glen Primary School No

Wattle View Primary School No

Waubra Primary School Yes

Wedge Park Primary School Yes

Welshpool and District Primary School No

Wembley Primary School No

Werribee Primary School Yes

Westall Primary School Yes

Westbreen Primary School No

Westgrove Primary School No

Whittington Primary School No

Whittlesea Primary School No

William Ruthven Primary School Yes

Wodonga South Primary School Yes

Wodonga West Primary School No

Wonga Park Primary School YesWonthaggi North Primary School N/A

Wonthaggi Primary School N/A


Woodend Primary School No

Woodford Primary School N/A

Woodville Primary School Yes

Woolsthorpe Primary School No

Woomelang Group School No

Wunghnu Primary School No

Wurruk Primary School Yes

Yallourn North Primary School Yes

Yarra Glen Primary School No

Yarra Junction Primary School Yes*

Yarragon Primary School Yes

Yarram Primary School Yes

Yarram Secondary College Yes

Yarraman Oaks Primary School Yes*

Yea Primary School Yes

Yinnar Primary School Yes

Yinnar South Primary School Yes

Yuille Park P-8 Community College No


Appendix 8: Victorian government schools that did not provide data, 2012* *2011 data was utilised in the report for all schools in this list.

School name School no.

Ainslie Parklands Primary School 4879

Alkira Secondary College 8874

Allansford and District Primary School 3

Altona Green Primary School 5287


Bacchus Marsh College 8777

Ballarat Secondary College 8828

Balmoral K-12 Community College 8872

Balnarring Primary School 1698

Bayswater South Primary School 4973

Beechworth Secondary College 7575

Bell Primary School 4309


Beulah Primary School 3109

Beverford District Primary School 5407

Birralee Primary School 4991

Black Rock Primary School 3631


Blackburn Lake Primary School 4860

Boisdale Consolidated School 6207

Boronia West Primary School 4908

Boroondara Park Primary School 5288

Broadford Secondary College 7655

Broadmeadows Primary School 4875

Brunswick South Primary School 2743

Brunswick South West Primary School 4304

Bundalaguah Primary School 5392


Bundarra Primary School 5228

Bundoora Secondary College 7874

Bungaree Primary School 1960


Canterbury Primary School 3572

Cape Clear Primary School 1484

Carrington Primary School 5426


Chelsea Heights Primary School 3341

Clifton Creek Primary School 3684


Clifton Springs Primary School 5280

Cobram Secondary College 7725

Coburg North Primary School 4543


Coburg West Primary School 3941

Cockatoo Primary School 3535

Colac West Primary School 4064

Coldstream Primary School 5127

Coolaroo South Primary School 4952

Cranbourne West Primary School 5189

Creswick North Primary School 2041

Croydon Community School 7757

Dandenong West Primary School 4217

Deans Marsh Primary School 1642


Dimboola Memorial Secondary College 7770


School name School

no.Eaglehawk Primary School 210


Epping Primary School 5551

Epping Secondary College 7813


Fleetwood Primary School 4407


Footscray West Primary School 3890

Foster Primary School 6221

Gilmore College for Girls 7841

Gladysdale Primary School 3982

Glenroy Central Primary School 5542


Guthridge Primary School 4853

Hallam Senior Secondary College 8868

Heidelberg Primary School 294

Horsham West - Haven Primary School 4697

Hurstbridge Primary School 3939

Ivanhoe East Primary School 4386

Kensington Primary School 2374

Kingston Heath Primary School 5101


Korumburra Primary School 3077

Kurunjang Secondary College 8718

Lalor Primary School 4709

Langwarrin Park Primary School 5257

Langwarrin Primary School 3531

Lardner and District Primary School 5393

Laurimar Primary School 5497



Lucknow Primary School 1231

Mackellar Primary School 5297

Maffra Primary School 861

Manchester Primary School 5009


Marong Primary School 400


Meadowglen Primary School 5286

Meadows Primary School 5524

Meerlieu Primary School 2535


Mentone Park Primary School 4955

Merri Creek Primary School 3110

Merrivale Primary School 4215

Middle Indigo Primary School 1115

Millwarra Primary School 5441

Miners Rest Primary School 1739

Mirboo North Secondary College 8050

Montmorency Primary School 4112


Mordialloc Beach Primary School 846

Moreland Primary School 2837

Mount Alexander 7-12 College 7763

Mount Eliza North Primary School 5140

Murrayville Community College 5433


Neerim District Secondary College 8145

Newborough Primary School 4650

Newhaven Primary School 3053

Newlands Primary School 4646

Newport Lakes Primary School 113

Newstead Primary School 452

Noorinbee Primary School 3372

Northcote Primary School 1401

Parkwood Secondary College 8226

Appendix 8: Data not available 127

School name School

no.Point Cook Senior Secondary College 8847

Port Fairy Consolidated School 6247

Powlett River Primary School 5423


Research Primary School 2959

Reservoir High School 8708

Richmond Primary School 5269

Rosanna Golf Links Primary School 4753

Rosanna Primary School 4568


Sebastopol Primary School 1167


Smeaton Primary School 552

South Yarra Primary School 583

St Arnaud Secondary College 8335

Stratford Primary School 596


Swan Hill Primary School 1142

Swan Reach Primary School 1631

Tarwin Lower Primary School 4275

The Lakes South Morang P-9 School 8846

Thomas Chirnside Primary School 5343

Thomastown East Primary School 4827


Thomastown West Primary School 4999

Thornbury Primary School3889


Toorloo Arm Primary School 3968


Tungamah Primary School 2225

Viewbank Primary School 4892

Warracknabeal Primary School 1334

Warrandyte High School 8437

Warranwood Primary School 3476

Warrnambool East Primary School 4773

Warrnambool Primary School 1743

Watsonia North Primary School 4988



Western Port Secondary College 7893

Westmeadows Primary School 982

William Ruthven Secondary College 8895

Wonthaggi North Primary School 3716

Wonthaggi Primary School 3650

Woodford Primary School 648

Woolum Bellum College 8879

Yackandandah Primary School 1103

Yarra Hills Secondary College 8815

Yarra Junction Primary School 3216


Yarraman Oaks Primary School 4807


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