Students at Yarra Valley Grammar suspended over offensive ...

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has said she is "devastated" by the behaviour of boys at a Melbourne school who compiled an offensive dossier on female students.

Three male students at Yarra Valley Grammar in Ringwood in Melbourne's east have been suspended after compiling the highly offensive spreadsheet rating the attractiveness of their female peers.

Warning: This story contains offensive language and references to sexual violence.

The students were reprimanded after staff discovered a screenshot of the document.

The school's principal, Mark Merry, said the spreadsheet used offensive terms and referenced sexual violence.

Yarra Valley Grammar has suspended three students over the offensive document.(ABC News: Danielle Bonica)

The spreadsheet used terms such as "wifeys" and "cuties" to describe female students and also used the term "unrapeable", he said.

"I'm shocked and outraged really," Dr Merry told ABC News Breakfast.

"We're attempting to pick up the pieces now. What has been said can't be unsaid and now we're facing the consequences of it here at the school."

Dr Merry said the use of the term "unrapeable" in the spreadsheet was particularly shocking and had prompted the school to consider whether police should be notified.

"We see this as a very serious matter. It's completely counter to everything that we hold dear here at the school," he said.

"We have lots of students in that year level who are outraged, who feel sad, who feel angry and they're rallying around to support these young women."

The school is holding meetings today with students and also with the parents of the female pupils referenced in the document.

Ms Allan said she was shocked when she learned what had happened at the school.

"The behaviour that's been reported today at the school in Ringwood is misogynist, it's disgraceful, it's disgusting and it's utterly unacceptable," she said.

"This pattern of violence against women, not only does the act of violence have to stop but [also] these displays of disrespecting women. It's just disgraceful."

Ms Allan said it was up to the school to decide whether further action would be taken against the students involved.

"My thoughts today are with the young women and the young men who they go to school with who are absolutely devastated by this news," she said.

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare said the school was handling the incident appropriately.

"It is disgusting and appalling. I'm glad the students have been suspended," he told Channel Nine.

"I also understand the female students are receiving counselling from the school. That's what I would expect the school to do."

Sexual consent activist Chanel Contos said such behaviour was commonplace in schools.

"If this is shocking news to anyone that they're not paying attention," she said.

"This notion of ranking women and objectifying girls is new to absolutely no one."

Ms Contos said such behaviour contributed to a culture where women were positioned as subordinate and objectified by male peers.

"We really need to take these acts seriously. Because these small acts relate directly to the rallies and protests that we had in Australia last week," she said.

"We really need to look at what sort of messages young men are receiving from various sources that makes them think that that is an okay way to act."