Best Schools, Ranked by D.A. Success Rate, New South Wales, 2019

Below is the list of the best NSW HSC schools ranked in order of their Distinguished Achiever success rates in 2019.

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.

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1 James Ruse Agricultural High School Carlingford 1 72.79 985 717
2 Conservatorium High School Sydney 2 69.12 217 150
3 North Sydney Boys High School Crows Nest 3 62.7 976 612
4 Sydney Grammar School Darlinghurst 4 61.29 1165 714
5 Hornsby Girls High School Hornsby 5 56.88 698 397
6 Sydney Girls High School Surry Hills 6 56.44 994 561
7 North Sydney Girls High School Crows Nest 7 54.7 925 506
8 Reddam House Bondi Campus North Bondi 8 53.23 558 297
9 Baulkham Hills High School Baulkham Hills 9 53.21 1216 647
10 Sydney Boys High School Moore Park 10 51.45 1244 640
11 Normanhurst Boys High School Normanhurst 11 50.19 779 391
12 Abbotsleigh Wahroonga 12 45.6 921 420
13 Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus North Curl Curl 13 43.47 789 343
14 Kambala Rose Bay 14 42.98 449 193
15 Meriden School Strathfield 15 42.84 789 338
16 SCEGGS Darlinghurst Darlinghurst 16 40.79 662 270
17 St Catherines School Waverley 17 40.2 597 240
18 Loreto Kirribilli Kirribilli 18 39.39 792 312
19 Fort Street High School Petersham 19 38.91 879 342
20 Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney Croydon 20 38.7 801 310
21 Girraween High School Girraween 21 38.36 816 313
22 Knox Grammar School Wahroonga 22 38.18 1886 720
23 Al-Faisal College Auburn 23 37.52 565 212
24 Ascham School Edgecliff 24 37.04 629 233
25 Wenona School North Sydney 25 36.63 647 237
26 Hurlstone Agricultural High School Glenfield 26 35.48 840 298
27 Loreto Normanhurst Normanhurst 27 34.26 902 309
28 St Lukes Grammar School Dee Why 28 34.2 579 198
29 Pymble Ladies College Pymble 29 33.81 1532 518
30 Cranbrook School Bellevue Hill 30 32.29 892 288
31 Queenwood School for Girls Mosman 31 32.25 400 129
32 St George Girls High School Kogarah 32 32 953 305
33 Al Noori Muslim School Senior Campus Greenacre 33 31.65 376 119
34 Danebank An Anglican School for Girls Hurstville 34 31.13 530 165
35 Masada College St Ives 35 30.85 295 91
36 Kincoppal Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart Vaucluse 36 30.7 583 179
37 SHORE Sydney Church of England Grammar School North Sydney 37 30.49 1115 340
38 Frensham School Mittagong 38 30.48 351 107
39 Moriah College Queens Park 39 30.44 726 221
40 Smiths Hill High School Wollongong 40 29.86 710 212
41 Sydney Technical High School Bexley 41 29.71 875 260
42 Emanuel School Randwick 42 29.67 418 124
43 St Aloysius College Milsons Point 43 29.66 917 272
44 Tara Anglican School for Girls North Parramatta 44 29.63 405 120
45 Roseville College Roseville 45 29.53 596 176
46 Penrith High School Penrith 46 29.35 920 270
47 Santa Sabina College Strathfield 47 29.11 632 184
48 Caringbah High School Caringbah 48 29.1 873 254
49 Merewether High School Broadmeadow 49 28.79 1087 313
50 Brigidine College St Ives St Ives 50 28.01 764 214
Source: NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA).
Supplementary data from school publications.
Last Updated: 7 Sep 2023
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