Executive Principal - Lakes Entrance Secondary College - SEVR

Location Profile

Lakes Entrance Secondary College (LESC) is the only secondary education provider in the East Gippsland town of Lakes Entrance. Situated at the mouth of the Gippsland Lakes on the Ninety Mile Beach, Lakes Entrance thrives on tourism and to a diminished extent on the fishing industry. The school has an important population of Indigenous students, who either live in town or at the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust, 20km further east.

The school opened in 1983 as a year 7-10 post primary school and at that time students had to travel to Bairnsdale, some 40km west to complete the Victorian Certificate of Education. In 2002, the school commenced delivery of the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning, and in 2005 became a comprehensive secondary provider by adding VCE and being funded as a 7-12 Secondary College. The school now successfully delivers senior school studies with 80% VCE completion and 100% VCE/VM completion percentages in 2024.

LESC currently has 161 enrolments with an SFOE of 0.5780. Students who attend the school live in Lakes Entrance or commute on school buses from the Kalimna, Nungurner, Toorloo Arm and surrounding areas.

Our mission

When students leave LESC, it is hoped that they are respectful and considerate, trustworthy and responsible, and have gratitude, empathy and an attitude of perseverance to their studies or selected vocation.

Our staffing profile is as follows:

Staffing at the school includes 20.8 EFT classroom teachers with 9.4 EFT class-based Education Support Staff. Administration and Wellbeing is supported 13.4 EFT ES. The Business Man…