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Academic Excellence

Year 12 Results &

Outstanding ATAR results year after year — our students consistently rank among the top performers in Queensland, with a proven pathway to university success.

  • Class of 2025
  • Median ATAR 91.00
  • Top 10% of the State
View 2025 Results NAPLAN Growth

2025 Year 12 Outcomes

2025 Academic Results

Our strongest median ATAR on record — with more than half the cohort placing in the top 10% of Queensland, and offers from Australia’s leading universities.

See every year since 2020

ATAR Results

Class of 2025 Top Graduate Chanu Jung
99.95 ATAR
99.4%
QCE attainment
Queensland Certificate of Education
12%
of students achieved
ATAR 99 or above
Top 1% of the state
32%
of students achieved
ATAR 95 or above
Top 5% of the state
53%
of students achieved
ATAR 90 or above
Top 10% of the state
JPC Median ATAR 2025 91.00

Percentages are of the known ATAR-eligible Year 12 cohort — the students who received an ATAR and shared it with the College. Not every student takes the ATAR pathway; some choose vocational or direct-entry routes to further study. These are John Paul College’s whole Year 12 results: international students sit the same subjects and the same external exams as everyone else. As of 18/12/2025, 88% of the total Year 12 cohort were ATAR eligible and 81% consented to share their results.

NAPLAN Results

2026 NAPLAN · Australia’s national literacy and numeracy test Ahead of the state average in every subject
50%
of Year 5 children write above the expected level
ACARA level: Exceeding
Queensland average 13% — nearly 4× ahead
43%
of Year 3 children read above the expected level
ACARA level: Exceeding
Queensland average 18% — more than double
94%
of Year 3 children write at or above the expected level
ACARA level: Strong or Exceeding
Queensland average 70% — 24 points ahead
5/5
subjects above the Queensland average
Reading, Writing, Spelling, Grammar, Maths
At both Year 3 and Year 5
Students from overseas

Our international students are thriving

Across all five subjects at Years 3 and 5 in 2026 — in their second language, with no student withdrawn or exempted.

98%

of their results were at or above the expected level

64%

were above it — ACARA level Exceeding

Strong across every subject — and getting stronger

In Year 5 maths, 93% of our children reach the expected level or beyond, against a Queensland average of 67%. Our results have improved three years in a row.

See the full NAPLAN detail

2026 NAPLAN results, John Paul College. Queensland averages published by ACARA, the independent national authority that sets and marks the test. Percentages are of students who sat each test.

Real Student Results

The Students Behind the Numbers

Every student here started where your child is starting — a new country, a new language, a new school. These are their real results, and where they went next.

See every graduate story Explore university pathways

Premier’s Awards Graduates received Premier’s recognition for achieving six A results across their senior subjects.
Diploma of Business Available alongside the QCE for students who want a business qualification while they complete Year 12.

As of 18/12/2025. 88% of the total cohort are ATAR eligible and 81% have consented to share their data.

Standardised Testing

NAPLAN — Explained, and Our Results

NAPLAN is Australia’s national literacy and numeracy test. Below: what it measures, how to read any school’s results — and how our students did.

What NAPLAN is

NAPLAN stands for the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy. Every student in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sits the same test, on the same days, in every school in Australia. The papers are then marked outside the school, so no school can influence its own result — which is what makes NAPLAN a fair way to compare one school with another.

  • One test, one day, every school

    Government, Catholic and independent schools all sit the same papers.

  • Marked outside the school

    Set and marked by ACARA, the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority.

  • Five subjects

    Reading, Writing, Spelling, Grammar & Punctuation, and Numeracy (maths).

What the four levels mean

Since 2023, every NAPLAN result is placed at one of four proficiency levels. Every Australian school uses these same four words, so once you know them you can compare any two schools — including ours against anyone else’s.

At or above the expected level The two levels schools add together

Exceeding Above the level expected for their year.
Strong At the level expected for their year.

Not yet at the expected level Where a school’s support really shows

Developing Approaching the expected level, but not there yet.
Needs additional support Needs extra help from the school to catch up.

When a school says “X% met the national standard” or “X% at Strong or Exceeding”, it means the top two levels added together. That is the figure to compare.

In our own words, then: 94% of our Year 3 children were Strong or Exceeding in Writing — against 70% across Queensland.

Our results

The same students, two years apart

Before 2023, NAPLAN reported a point score on a scale of roughly 0–1000, and those scores are still used to measure growth. The two measures describe the same tests: point scores show how far a child has travelled; the levels above show whether a child has arrived. Testing the same students twice is what separates good teaching from a strong intake.

Primary School Cohort

Year 3 (2023) → Year 5 (2025)

Every subject is plotted on the same 400–700 scale, so the bars can be read against each other as well as on their own. The longer the bar, the further those students travelled.

  1. Reading 446 530Above +84
  2. Writing 445 535Above +90
  3. Spelling 451 528Above +77
  4. Grammar 463 554Well above +91
  5. Numeracy 455 544Above +89

NAPLAN point scale. “Above” and “well above” describe the 2025 Year 5 score against the national average.

Exceptional growth across every domain Our primary students improved by an average of 86 points across all five NAPLAN domains over two years — with Grammar (+91) and Writing (+90) showing the strongest gains.
+86avg. points

Secondary School Cohort

Year 7 (2023) → Year 9 (2025)

The same students again, two years on. Secondary gains are smaller by nature — these students began Year 7 already scoring well above the national average, so there is less room left on the scale.

  1. Reading 576 604Above +28
  2. Writing 556 628Well above +72
  3. Spelling 569 586Above +17
  4. Grammar 578 608Above +30
  5. Numeracy 592 624Well above +32

The same 400–700 scale as the primary cohort. These students start much further along it — the shorter bars are the ceiling effect of already-high scores, not weaker teaching.

Strong growth at the secondary level Our secondary students improved by an average of 36 points — a remarkable result given these are already high-performing students. Writing showed an outstanding +72 point gain, placing these students well above the national average.
+36avg. points

NAPLAN data sourced from MySchool (myschool.edu.au). Year 3 and Year 7 scores from 2023; Year 5 and Year 9 scores from 2025. Growth figures represent the same cohort of students tested two years apart. All 2025 scores are above national average across every domain. NAPLAN participation rate: 96%.

Our Track Record

Four Years of Rising Results

Since 2022 our median ATAR has climbed 4.4 points. The share of students reaching Queensland’s top 10% has grown from 40% to 53%. Every year on record is listed in the full table below.

Median ATAR Trend

The middle of the cohort — half our students scored above this

4.4 points since 2022

Vertical axis starts at 80 so the differences between years are visible.

Students Achieving ATAR 90+

Share of the cohort placing in the top 10% of Queensland

Higher every year since 2022

Full results, every year since 2020

Year Top ATAR Median ATAR ATAR 99+ ATAR 95+ ATAR 90+ QCE
2025 Latest 99.95 91.00 Record 12% 32% 53% 99.4%
2024 99.55 89.70 6% 32% 50% 100%
2023 99.95 86.00 9% 28% 41% 100%
2022 99.95 86.60 2% 20% 40% 100%
2021 99.90 88.80 5.1% 24.5% 42% —
2020 99.80 — — 15% 33.3% —

2020 figures based on available published data; some metrics were not reported that year. The “—” indicates data not available or not reported for that year. 2024 data as of 8/01/2025 (90% ATAR eligible, 83% consented). 2025 data as of 18/12/2025 (88% ATAR eligible, 81% consented).

Results are shown as percentages of the cohort. John Paul College does not publish student headcounts or segmented cohort breakdowns.

Read more: the Class of 2025 in detail · awards and recognition · the High School Preparation Course most of our international graduates began in.

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