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.
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 |
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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 |