Melville High School is a comprehensive, coeducational school which offers a caring and positive environment in which students are encouraged to achieve in a variety of fields. The school provides opportunities in academic, sporting, cultural, creative and technology learning areas and implements programs to develop social and vocational skills. All students at the school are encouraged to complete their Higher School Certificate following either an academic or vocational pathway. In the junior years, students follow a prescribed pattern of study and as they progress through their schooling there becomes available a large range of traditional, non traditional and vocational courses to choose from. Melville offers the most extensive range of courses available to any high school in the Macleay and all are taught by experienced and qualified professional teachers. Over the years many Melville students have demonstrated high levels of achievement and improvement in the statewide literacy and numeracy programs and results in the SC and HSC are comparable and often superior to those achieved by other schools with student cohorts from similar backgrounds. Student support structures emphasise effective learning, student welfare and discipline, and student success is widely recognised and publicly celebrated. Our school values encourage students to "Do It Right". Our staff teach Respect, Industriousness, Growth to maturity, Healthy lifestyles, and Teamwork in all settings. In 2011, Melville was in its third year of the four-year Priority School Funding Program cycle and in its second year of the four year National Partnership on Low SES School Communities program. The school qualified for these programs based on community socio-economic disadvantage. In order to help remediate the associated educational disadvantage, these programs provide additional resource funding to the school. The funds have been allocated to: targeted programs in literacy and numeracy; building stronger links with parents and the community;..