This report ranks the best NSW HSC schools in order according to the total number of Distinguished Achiever award winners at each school in 2016.
Please note that this ranking method ignores the relative sizes of each school's year 12 cohort, so larger schools will, on average, tend to be favoured by this ranking method.
Also note that this report is an excerpt. To see the complete set of award statistics for each school, please refer to the NSW School HSC Statistics report.
1 | Sydney Boys High School | Surry Hills | 622 | 262 |
2 | Baulkham Hills High School | Baulkham Hills | 767 | 231 |
3 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford | 773 | 221 |
4 | Knox Grammar School | Wahroonga | 502 | 195 |
5 | Pymble Ladies College | Pymble | 494 | 191 |
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6 | Barker College | Hornsby | 553 | 190 |
7 | North Sydney Boys High School | Crows Nest | 581 | 189 |
8 | Cherrybrook Technology High School | Cherrybrook | 423 | 173 |
9 | Fort Street High School | Petersham | 401 | 161 |
10 | Merewether High School | Broadmeadow | 307 | 161 |
11 | Sydney Girls High School | Surry Hills | 467 | 160 |
12 | The Kings School | North Parramatta | 372 | 158 |
13 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest | 501 | 156 |
14 | Killara High School | Killara | 344 | 153 |
15 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst | 606 | 153 |
16 | St Marys Senior High School | St Marys | 284 | 145 |
17 | St Ignatius College | Lane Cove | 351 | 144 |
18 | SHORE Sydney Church of England Grammar School | North Sydney | 404 | 138 |
19 | Normanhurst Boys High School | Normanhurst | 342 | 136 |
20 | Abbotsleigh | Wahroonga | 417 | 133 |
21 | St George Girls High School | Kogarah | 375 | 132 |
22 | St Aloysius College | Milsons Point | 345 | 131 |
23 | Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus | North Curl Curl | 398 | 130 |
24 | Hurlstone Agricultural High School | Glenfield | 291 | 119 |
25 | Penrith High School | Penrith | 308 | 119 |