VCE Drama and Theatre Studies Numbers 2005-2009

If you teach VCE Drama and/or Theatre Studies in the final two years of high school in metropolitan Melbourne or regional Victoria, have you ever wondered how many students are enrolled in these subjects and the difference between the two? Well, I did a bit of research and have a 5-year trend outlined below:

Source: Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority

Actual trends in the past five years indicate Unit 3 & 4 Theatre Studies numbers have remained constant, while Drama enrollments at the same level have clearly dropped each year (over 20% decline from 1910 students in Unit 3 in 2005 to just 1500 in 2009). While Unit 3 & 4 enrollments are less than numbers in Unit 1 & 2 in Drama over all five years, interestingly in three years (2007, 2008, 2009) numbers in VCE Theatre Studies have actually increased in Unit 3, compared to Unit 2.