This report shows the total number of HSC Distinguished Achiever awards won by students in each subject at each school during 2013.
| 1 | Baulkham Hills High School | Baulkham Hills | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 2 | Blakehurst High School | Blakehurst | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 3 | Canley Vale High School | Canley Vale | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 4 | Cape Byron Rudolf Steiner School | Byron Bay | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 5 | Caringbah High School | Caringbah | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 6 | Carlingford High School | Carlingford | Japanese Continuers | 3 |
| 7 | Castle Hill High School | Castle Hill | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 8 | Chatswood High School | Chatswood | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
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| 9 | Cheltenham Girls High School | Beecroft | Japanese Continuers | 2 |
| 10 | Cherrybrook Technology High School | Cherrybrook | Japanese Continuers | 4 |
| 11 | Fort Street High School | Petersham | Japanese Continuers | 3 |
| 12 | Gosford High School | Gosford | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 13 | Homebush Boys High School | Homebush | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 14 | Hornsby Girls High School | Hornsby | Japanese Continuers | 4 |
| 15 | Hunters Hill High School | Hunters Hill | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 16 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 17 | Killara High School | Killara | Japanese Continuers | 4 |
| 18 | Killarney Heights High School | Killarney Heights | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 19 | Knox Grammar School | Wahroonga | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 20 | Macarthur Girls High School | Parramatta | Japanese Continuers | 2 |
| 21 | Mater Maria Catholic College | Warriewood | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 22 | Meriden School | Strathfield | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 23 | MLC School | Burwood | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 24 | Normanhurst Boys High School | Normanhurst | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 25 | North Sydney Boys High School | Crows Nest | Japanese Continuers | 5 |
| 26 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest | Japanese Continuers | 7 |
| 27 | Port Hacking High School | Miranda | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 28 | Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney | Croydon | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 29 | Pymble Ladies College | Pymble | Japanese Continuers | 6 |
| 30 | Randwick Girls High School | Randwick | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 31 | Riverside Girls High School | Gladesville | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 32 | SCEGGS Darlinghurst | Darlinghurst | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 33 | SHORE Sydney Church of England Grammar School | North Sydney | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 34 | St Andrews Cathedral School | Sydney | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 35 | St George Girls High School | Kogarah | Japanese Continuers | 8 |
| 36 | Strathfield Girls High School | Strathfield | Japanese Continuers | 4 |
| 37 | Sydney Boys High School | Moore Park | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 38 | Sydney Girls High School | Surry Hills | Japanese Continuers | 7 |
| 39 | Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay Campus | Glebe | Japanese Continuers | 2 |
| 40 | Sydney Technical High School | Bexley | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 41 | Tempe High School | Tempe | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 42 | Tuggerah Lakes Secondary College The Entrance Campus | Shelly Beach | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 43 | Wagga Wagga High School | Wagga Wagga | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 44 | Willoughby Girls High School | Willoughby | Japanese Continuers | 2 |