Elevate

What Does Elevate Aim to Do?

Elevate gives high-achieving students an appropriately challenging and supportive learning environment. One that meets them at their level, extends their thinking, and keeps them engaged and stretched alongside like-minded peers.

Elevate students study their MESH subjects (Maths, English, Science, and Humanities) together as a dedicated class. Teaching in these subjects is delivered with greater pace, depth, and challenge, with a strong focus on developing the higher-order thinking and academic skills that students need to thrive in senior school.

Building on this, the program has two further goals:

• Pathway to GAT: supporting students who aspire to join the Gifted and Talented (GAT) program by helping them develop the reasoning and problem-solving skills they need to perform well in the Academic Selective Entrance Test (ASET)*.
• Senior school readiness: building academic confidence, skills, and aspiration so students are well-prepared to take on a demanding ATAR workload when they reach Years 11 and 12.

*The ASET is an external academic assessment used to identify students suited to the GAT program. Students who perform strongly but are not offered a GAT place may still be well-suited to Elevate.

To be considered for the Elevate Program, students should achieve a strong result across all MESH subjects (Maths, English, Science, and Humanities), typically a B average or higher, and/or achieve an ASET score of 180 or greater without being offered a place in the GAT program.

How the Selection Process Works

How places are allocated. Elevate offers around 30 places each year. All eligible students are ranked on their academic results, primarily their average across MESH subjects from the previous semester, with NAPLAN and individual subject results used to distinguish between students of similar standing. Places are offered in order of this ranking, and the selection team confirms the final list.

Reviewed each semester. Student results are reviewed each semester. Where places are available, strong-performing students may be offered a place in Elevate partway through the year.

Re-formed each year. At the end of each year, places are reviewed, and the class is re-formed for the year ahead based on that year's academic results. A place in one year is not automatically held for the next, so students continue to earn their place through their ongoing performance.

Students who are considered for the program but are not offered a place will be encouraged to continue pursuing strong academic results. Eligibility is reviewed annually, and future opportunities may arise as students progress through Years 7 to 9.