This report shows the total number of HSC Distinguished Achiever awards won by students in each subject at each school during 2015.
| 1 | Barker College | Hornsby | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 2 | Baulkham Hills High School | Baulkham Hills | Japanese Continuers | 9 |
| 3 | Birrong Girls High School | Birrong | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 4 | Burwood Girls High School | Croydon | Japanese Continuers | 3 |
| 5 | Caringbah High School | Caringbah | Japanese Continuers | 6 |
| 6 | Carlingford High School | Carlingford | Japanese Continuers | 6 |
| 7 | Castle Hill High School | Castle Hill | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 8 | Catherine McAuley Westmead | Westmead | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 9 | Central Coast Grammar School | Erina Heights | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
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| 10 | Chatswood High School | Chatswood | Japanese Continuers | 3 |
| 11 | Cheltenham Girls High School | Beecroft | Japanese Continuers | 3 |
| 12 | Cherrybrook Technology High School | Cherrybrook | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 13 | Epping Boys High School | Eastwood | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 14 | Fort Street High School | Petersham | Japanese Continuers | 2 |
| 15 | Georges River College Oatley Senior Campus | Oatley | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 16 | Gilroy Catholic College | Castle Hill | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 17 | Girraween High School | Girraween | Japanese Continuers | 4 |
| 18 | Gosford High School | Gosford | Japanese Continuers | 2 |
| 19 | Hornsby Girls High School | Hornsby | Japanese Continuers | 6 |
| 20 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford | Japanese Continuers | 4 |
| 21 | Kambala | Rose Bay | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 22 | Killara High School | Killara | Japanese Continuers | 2 |
| 23 | Killarney Heights High School | Killarney Heights | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 24 | Knox Grammar School | Wahroonga | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 25 | Meriden School | Strathfield | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 26 | Newington College | Stanmore | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 27 | Normanhurst Boys High School | Normanhurst | Japanese Continuers | 2 |
| 28 | North Sydney Boys High School | Crows Nest | Japanese Continuers | 6 |
| 29 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest | Japanese Continuers | 13 |
| 30 | Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus | North Curl Curl | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 31 | Penrith High School | Penrith | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 32 | Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney | Croydon | Japanese Continuers | 4 |
| 33 | Pymble Ladies College | Pymble | Japanese Continuers | 5 |
| 34 | Queenwood School for Girls | Mosman | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 35 | Randwick Girls High School | Randwick | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 36 | Santa Sabina College | Strathfield | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 37 | SCEGGS Darlinghurst | Darlinghurst | Japanese Continuers | 2 |
| 38 | Smiths Hill High School | Wollongong | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 39 | St Aloysius College | Milsons Point | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 40 | St Catherines School | Waverley | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 41 | St George Girls High School | Kogarah | Japanese Continuers | 4 |
| 42 | St Marys Senior High School | St Marys | Japanese Continuers | 2 |
| 43 | Strathfield Girls High School | Strathfield | Japanese Continuers | 3 |
| 44 | Sydney Girls High School | Surry Hills | Japanese Continuers | 8 |
| 45 | Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay Campus | Glebe | Japanese Continuers | 1 |
| 46 | Sydney Technical High School | Bexley | Japanese Continuers | 3 |