Year 3 students in Victoria continued improving on previous years results as they topped the class in reading, numeracy, and grammar and punctuation.

Victoria's year 5 students also lead the nation in reading, numeracy, writing, and grammar and punctuation.

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Since 2019, Victorian students have improved their results in key areas and shown resilience to months of remote learning.

"These phenomenal results are more than statistics - they represent thousands of Victorian kids who will be afforded better opportunities through education, no matter where they live or what their background," education minister James Merlino said.

"We're so proud to be building a world-class education system that gives every student the opportunity to shine - and I want to thank every educator, principal, family and school community across Victoria for helping us get here."

Kennington Primary School principal Travis Eddy said the work put in by the state government, schools and teachers was the main reason for the reports of improved NAPLAN results.

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"It's something to celebrate but there is a fair bit behind it and a lot of work was put in to ensure results keep moving up," he said.

"The state government put an extensive period of time and money was spent in schools, so I would like to think (the results) are a reflection of what's been done (prior to the pandemic).

"To put it in perspective, kids in remote learning were there for six months in 2020, then had a stint at school and then took the NAPLAN in May. So I would be interested to find out how much can be based on remote learning because (the NAPLAN) is five or six years of work.

"It is disrupting, don't get me wrong, and as much as we worked hard as a community to ensure remote learning processes are great and (skills won't) decline, the work before it was put in to have the basis (for these results."

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Catholic Education Sandhurst executive director Paul Desmond said he was extremely proud of students in Victoria.

"We are delighted that students, despite their difficulties in the past 18 months, have achieved results as great as they have," he said.

"This would be a culmination of great work of teachers and parents going in and out of lockdown and remote learning that have helped these students achieve and the quality of education in Victoria is very admirable.

"The best outcome in these results is the clear statement that our children are resilient, that they will learn despite the difficult circumstances and that they are growing at a rate that we need."

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Year 7 students improved in reading, writing and spelling compared to 2019 and scored the highest scores of any jurisdiction for reading and numeracy skills while Year 9s topped the nation in spelling.

Victorian students in Year 5 began Prep when the Labor Government started its Education State reforms, and are now seeing the benefits of six years of dedicated investment.

Year 5 students scoring in the top two bands for reading has increased from 36.9 per cent in 2015 to 45.5 per cent this year.

The results also show the state government's work to increase equity and tackle disadvantage is working with the number of students in the bottom two bands for reading has decreased by eight per cent at Year 5 and two per cent in Year 3 since 2015.

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In secondary schools, more students are achieving the top two bands of reading compared to 2019 and there are less students in the bottom two bands.

Since 2015, the state government has invested more than $22.2 billion in education reforms.

The government has also made major investments to support student learning and wellbeing throughout the coronavirus pandemic including $250 million to deploy more than 6400 tutors across Victorian schools and a $28.5 million boost to ensure students receive the health and wellbeing support they need.

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