Suzanne Cory High School Entry Guide: Year 9 SEHS Pathway and Campus Fit

Braintree Coaching Australia (exam preparation, not the PayPal payments company) is not affiliated with Suzanne Cory High School, ACER or the Victorian Department of Education. This guide is for Victorian parents of a Year 8 child weighing Suzanne Cory as a genuine Year 9 preference, including west-Melbourne commute and co-ed fit, who need the official application source and a matching practice next step. It does not predict offers.

How does Year 9 entry to Suzanne Cory work?

Year 9 entry to Suzanne Cory runs through the statewide Victorian SEHS process: sit in Year 8, apply via ACER, and list up to three school preferences in genuine order.

Suzanne Cory enrols Years 9–12 as one of the four government Selective Entry High Schools. For the main intake:

1. Eligible stage: second year of secondary school (Year 8), and the candidate must not have previously sat the Year 9 entry exam.
2. Exam administrator: ACER runs the shared Year 9 entrance exam for all four campuses.
3. Application: lodge through the ACER Selective Entry portal. The school’s enrolment page points families to that centralised process for Year 9.
4. Preferences: list up to three schools; order matters. Four campuses does not mean four preference slots.
5. Places: about 1,000 Year 9 places across the four schools statewide. Suzanne Cory’s enrolment page states the school accepts approximately 200 Year 9 places each year. That is a school-stated intake figure, not an offer-rate promise.

Offers use competitive ranking plus preferences. The Department publishes an offer split of standard merit 85%, equity consideration up to 10%, and principal discretion up to 5%. There is no single statewide pass mark and no published campus-specific percentile cut-off for Suzanne Cory.

When do Suzanne Cory / SEHS applications open for 2027 and 2028?

Bookmark the ACER Victorian SEHS hub and re-check when the next-cycle calendar appears.

Does Suzanne Cory use a different entrance exam?

No. Year 9 entry to Suzanne Cory uses the same ACER Victorian SEHS entrance exam as Melbourne High, Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School and Nossal High School.

The school’s enrolment page states the Year 9 entrance exam is conducted by ACER. Practising a different vendor paper will not replace ACER SEHS familiarisation. For the four-campus comparison, use the Victorian SEHS schools guide (Suzanne Cory campus section).

What should families weigh about campus fit?

Suzanne Cory campus fit means weighing west-Melbourne travel time, a co-educational Years 9–12 setting, and the school’s published senior programmes against your other preferences.

Verified school-profile points:

• Location: Werribee, west Melbourne (government profile address: 225 Hoppers Lane, Werribee 3030).
• Intake: co-educational selective government school for Years 9–12; opened 1 January 2011.
• Senior programmes: the school publishes an International Baccalaureate Diploma Pathway in senior years alongside VCE. Treat IB availability as programme information, not an admission advantage or a reason to skip preference honesty.

Before you list Suzanne Cory first, check the daily Year 9 commute, whether a co-ed campus suits your child, and whether you would accept an offer there if that is the preference you qualify for. Compare all four campuses on the SEHS schools guide. One school spotlight is not a substitute for preference planning.

Is mid-entry at Years 10–11 the same as Suzanne Cory Year 9 SEHS entry?

Years 10–11 mid-entry at Suzanne Cory is school-managed and uses Edutest, separate from the Year 9 ACER SEHS pathway. The school does not enrol Year 12 mid-entry on the enrolment page checked. This guide’s primary job is Year 9 SEHS entry. For a different Victorian school that uses Edutest for Year 10/11 as its main pathway, see the John Monash Science School entry guide. Do not treat JMSS materials as Suzanne Cory Year 9 preparation. Families comparing Suzanne Cory with the girls-only Melbourne SEHS campus should also read the Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School entry guide — that pathway is shared ACER Year 9 entry with different campus-fit questions.

What should we practise next?

Practice for Suzanne Cory Year 9 entry is the shared Victorian SEHS / ACER pathway, not a school-branded Year 9 paper, and not a Mac.Robertson-only substitute.

When Suzanne Cory is a genuine preference, start here, in this order:

1. Official process: Victorian selective entry high schools and the ACER apply portal for eligibility, fees and the next open cycle.
2. Campus comparison: Victorian SEHS schools guide so preference order reflects commute and co-ed fit.
3. Familiarisation: official ACER sample questions from the ACER Prepare page (sample ZIP linked there). Samples familiarise style and format; they are not necessarily full exam difficulty. ACER’s Prepare guidance is familiarisation with style and format. Coaching is not an ACER or Department requirement for sitting the exam.
4. Skill practice on this site: SEHS practice resources for timed skill work, mistake logging and honest next steps after official samples.
5. Optional programme outline: Victoria SEHS preparation hub and Victoria SEHS courses after familiarisation, never as an ACER requirement.

Where should you go after this guide?

The next step after this Suzanne Cory guide is the official SEHS application source, then campus comparison, then shared ACER practice, in that order.

1. Open ACER Victorian SEHS apply: official Year 9 application process and published cycle dates.
2. Open Victorian SEHS schools guide: four-campus comparison and Suzanne Cory campus notes.
3. Open SEHS practice resources: shared ACER familiarisation and timed practice next steps.
4. Open the Victorian Government Suzanne Cory school profile or the school enrolment page for campus-stated enrolment detail.