Students with Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander backgrounds or students whose parents have a Commonwealth Health Care Card are eligible under this policy. Academics Curriculum The design incorporates ICT arrangements for eLearning. Year 9 and 10 courses are similar, with concentration on core subjects: English, mathematics, and science. Elective subjects are available to students throughout these years in which students can select from a variety of disciplines to undertake. Choices of electives include, but are not limited to: food technology, music, drama, media studies, and visual arts subjects. During these two years, studying a language is compulsory. The school offers three languages: French, Mandarin Chinese and Latin. Students select either French or Mandarin Chinese to study in these two years and have the option to continue study into VCE. Latin is offered from Year 10. In addition, classroom music is compulsory in Year 9, which allows students to develop a culturally informed understanding of Western Musical practices. Instrumental music is offered as an extracurricular activity. VCE acceleration The majority of students undertake VCE starting in Year 11. However, the school allows Year 11 students to voluntarily undertake a unit 3/4 VCE subject. This strategy is similar to the Select Entry Accelerated Learning one year early VCE plan, which enables students to become more prepared for VCE, with the intention to gain higher outcomes. In 2013, 178 of the school's 200 inaugural Year 11 students completed one or more unit 3/4 subjects. Academic results Many of the inaugural group of year twelve students completed unit 3/4 VCE studies in 2013. The median study score was 36 and the percentage of students attaining a study score of 40 or above was twenty-four percent. These first VCE results placed Suzanne Cory High School within the top twenty-five highest performing schools in the state in 2013. Suzanne Cory High School was ranked sixth out of all state secondary schools in Victoria based on VCE results in 2018. Student life House system All students at Suzanne Cory High School are allocated to one of four houses upon entry to the school. Each of the four houses is named after a mountain in the western region of Victoria. All the houses are associated with a colour, mascot, and badge. Blackwood - Horse and knight motifs Cottrell - Phoenix motif Kororoit - Dragon motif Rothwell - Griffin motif The house program involves a number of whole school