This report ranks the best NSW HSC schools in order of their Distinguished Achiever success rates in 2017.
A school's Distinguished Achiever success rate is the proportion of all HSC subject completions by all students in a given year that resulted in a Distinguished Achiever award.
Where two schools have equal Distinguished Achiever success rates, the total number of HSC subject completions is used as a secondary ranking measure, with larger totals being ranked higher.
School ranking positions are assigned to the top 200 schools (at most).
Note that this report is an excerpt. To see the complete set of award statistics for each school, please go to the NSW School HSC Statistics report.
| 1 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford | 1 | 77.42 | 1014 | 785 |
| 2 | Baulkham Hills High School | Baulkham Hills | 2 | 61.55 | 1264 | 778 |
| 3 | North Sydney Boys High School | Crows Nest | 3 | 59.14 | 979 | 579 |
| 4 | Sydney Girls High School | Surry Hills | 4 | 56.77 | 1004 | 570 |
| 5 | Sydney Boys High School | Moore Park | 5 | 55.1 | 1236 | 681 |
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| 6 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst | 6 | 54.16 | 1189 | 644 |
| 7 | Hornsby Girls High School | Hornsby | 7 | 53.27 | 781 | 416 |
| 8 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest | 8 | 51.18 | 934 | 478 |
| 9 | Ascham School | Edgecliff | 9 | 50.18 | 566 | 284 |
| 10 | Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus | North Curl Curl | 10 | 48.94 | 803 | 393 |
| 11 | Conservatorium High School | Sydney | 11 | 47.74 | 199 | 95 |
| 12 | Fort Street High School | Petersham | 12 | 45.3 | 989 | 448 |
| 13 | Normanhurst Boys High School | Normanhurst | 13 | 44.98 | 807 | 363 |
| 14 | Abbotsleigh | Wahroonga | 14 | 43.71 | 890 | 389 |
| 15 | Moriah College | Queens Park | 15 | 43.11 | 689 | 297 |
| 16 | SCEGGS Darlinghurst | Darlinghurst | 16 | 42.28 | 648 | 274 |
| 17 | Reddam House Bondi Campus | North Bondi | 17 | 42.08 | 442 | 186 |
| 18 | Kambala | Rose Bay | 18 | 39 | 500 | 195 |
| 19 | Knox Grammar School | Wahroonga | 19 | 37.87 | 1743 | 660 |
| 20 | Pymble Ladies College | Pymble | 20 | 37.16 | 1367 | 508 |
| 21 | Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney | Croydon | 21 | 37.04 | 729 | 270 |
| 22 | Girraween High School | Girraween | 22 | 36.54 | 821 | 300 |
| 23 | Meriden School | Strathfield | 23 | 36.33 | 589 | 214 |
| 24 | St George Girls High School | Kogarah | 24 | 35.38 | 913 | 323 |
| 25 | Roseville College | Roseville | 25 | 34.79 | 572 | 199 |