Damascus College
1412 Geelong Road, Mount Clear VIC 3350
Damascus College is a Catholic secondary school in Mount Clear, VIC for Years 7–12 with about 1,215 students across all campuses. Its ICSEA is 1,052, where the national average is 1000.
Annual report (2025) ↗ on the publisher's site. About this link
ICSEA, Enrolments, Language background, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander share, Year range, Teaching staff, School website: ACARA School Profile 2025. Source: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). Enrolments and staff cover all campuses of this school. Terms
About this school, from public sources
Public online sources describe Damascus College as Ballarat's only Catholic co-educational secondary school, formed in 1995 from the merger of three earlier Catholic colleges (Sacred Heart, St Paul's, and St Martin's in the Pines). It sits on a 20-hectare treed campus at Mount Clear, teaching years 7 to 12 with around 1,100 students. The school describes a pastoral care structure built around Teacher Advisor groups, and emphasises partnership with families, including regular parent surveys to review student experience.
Often praised
- large treed campus
- structured pastoral care program
- strong family-school partnership focus
This note was generated from publicly available online sources (the school's website, official pages and online feedback) as at September 2026. It reflects what is said online, not an assessment by SchoolList AU or any government body, and it deliberately records only neutral and positive points. Confidence: medium. Verify anything important with the school. Report an inaccuracy.
NAPLAN
School-level NAPLAN results are published by ACARA on My School under terms that do not allow them to be reproduced here. See Damascus College on My School · Why some data is missing
VCE 2025
Last 5 years
| Year | Median VCE study score |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 30.0 |
| 2024 | 29.0 |
| 2023 | 28.0 |
| 2022 | 28.0 |
| 2021 | 28.0 |
Source: VCAA senior secondary completion and achievement information. Study scores are relative to the state cohort in each subject.
Location and nearby schools
Straight-line distances. List every school within 5 to 50 km.
| School | Suburb | Type | Distance | ICSEA | Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Clear CollegeGifted class: Gifted class | Mount Clear | Public high school | 0.7 km | 996 | 921 |
| Ballarat Christian College | Sebastopol | Independent k–12 / combined | 3.1 km | 1,058 | 406 |
| Phoenix P-12 Community College | Sebastopol | Public k–12 / combined | 4.3 km | 947 | 1,495 |
| Woodmans Hill Secondary College | Ballarat East | Public high school | 6.1 km | 988 | 646 |
| Ballarat Clarendon College | Ballarat | Independent k–12 / combined | 6.6 km | 1,172 | 1,896 |
| St Patrick's College Ballarat | Ballarat | Catholic high school | 6.7 km | 1,055 | 1,267 |
| Loreto College | Ballarat | Catholic high school | 7.3 km | 1,073 | 948 |
| Ballarat High School | Lake Gardens | Public high school | 7.8 km | 1,016 | 1,529 |
Schools with a similar ICSEA in VIC
Same sector and type, ICSEA within 25 points. This is the comparison that separates teaching from postcode.
| School | Suburb | Type | Students | ICSEA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph's College | Ferntree Gully | Catholic high school · 7-12 | 991 | 1,052 |
| Clonard College | Herne Hill | Catholic high school · 7-12 | 940 | 1,051 |
| Simonds Catholic College | West Melbourne | Catholic high school · 7-12 | 359 | 1,053 |
| Assumption College | Kilmore | Catholic high school · 7-12 | 1,455 | 1,050 |
| Catholic College Wodonga | Wodonga | Catholic high school · 7-12 | 1,229 | 1,054 |
| Nazareth College | Noble Park North | Catholic high school · 7-12 | 972 | 1,050 |
About this data
Figures are from the latest published datasets and can lag the school by a year. Confirm enrolment rules and catchment boundaries with the school or department before relying on them.