Advertisement Two maverick high schools that flipped the traditional teacher-student dynamic and gave their pupils a bigger say in the structure and content of their education have achieved their best ever VCE results in 2020. Templestowe College once declared "RIP VCE", so it might seem surprising that it just achieved a cherished median study score of 30 in the mainstream student performance measure it ceremonially buried just four years ago. Templestowe College principal Peter Ellis with maths students earlier this year. But principal Peter Ellis said it was a result of the school's philosophy that allows students to steer their own studies.