This report ranks the best NSW HSC schools in order according to the total number of Distinguished Achiever award winners at each school in 2019.
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 | Moore Park | 640 | 261 |
| 2 | Knox Grammar School | Wahroonga | 720 | 257 |
| 3 | Baulkham Hills High School | Baulkham Hills | 647 | 240 |
| 4 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford | 717 | 225 |
| 5 | Barker College | Hornsby | 517 | 198 |
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| 6 | Pymble Ladies College | Pymble | 518 | 184 |
| 7 | North Sydney Boys High School | Crows Nest | 612 | 182 |
| 8 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst | 714 | 175 |
| 9 | Merewether High School | Broadmeadow | 313 | 171 |
| 10 | Sydney Girls High School | Surry Hills | 561 | 170 |
| 11 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest | 506 | 151 |
| 12 | Normanhurst Boys High School | Normanhurst | 391 | 149 |
| 13 | St Ignatius College | Lane Cove | 346 | 141 |
| 14 | Cherrybrook Technology High School | Cherrybrook | 292 | 134 |
| 15 | SHORE Sydney Church of England Grammar School | North Sydney | 340 | 129 |
| 16 | Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus | North Curl Curl | 343 | 128 |
| 17 | Abbotsleigh | Wahroonga | 420 | 127 |
| 18 | Fort Street High School | Petersham | 341 | 125 |
| 19 | Killara High School | Killara | 251 | 123 |
| 20 | Girraween High School | Girraween | 313 | 122 |
| 21 | Cheltenham Girls High School | Beecroft | 207 | 117 |
| 22 | Gosford High School | Gosford | 263 | 116 |
| 23 | Hornsby Girls High School | Hornsby | 397 | 115 |
| 24 | Penrith High School | Penrith | 270 | 115 |
| 25 | Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney | Croydon | 310 | 115 |