Best Schools, Ranked by D.A. Success Rate, New South Wales, 2020

Below is the list of the best NSW HSC schools ranked in order of their Distinguished Achiever success rates in 2020.

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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51 MLC School Burwood 51 26.1 479 125
52 St Vincents College Potts Point 52 26.06 614 160
53 Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College North Sydney 53 25.94 694 180
54 Al-Faisal College Auburn 54 25.77 683 176
55 Alpha Omega Senior College Auburn 55 25.64 468 120
56 Kincoppal Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart Vaucluse 56 25.5 498 127
57 IPEKA Integrated Christian School Jakarta, Indonesia 57 25.2 377 95
58 Ravenswood School for Girls Gordon 58 25.1 494 124
59 Willoughby Girls High School Willoughby 59 24.6 695 171
60 Northern Beaches Secondary College Balgowlah Boys Campus Balgowlah 60 24.54 432 106
61 Northholm Grammar School Arcadia 61 23.5 200 47
62 Brigidine College St Ives St Ives 62 22.71 722 164
63 The Scots College Bellevue Hill 63 22.65 1011 229
64 Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School Middle Cove 64 22.53 182 41
65 Queenwood School for Girls Mosman 65 22.45 294 66
66 St Augustines College Brookvale 66 22.31 762 170
67 Frensham School Mittagong 67 22.22 351 78
68 Smiths Hill High School Wollongong 68 21.46 685 147
69 Chatswood High School Chatswood 69 21.45 760 163
70 Sefton High School Sefton 70 21.38 856 183
71 St Josephs College Hunters Hill Hunters Hill 71 21.25 1139 242
72 Gosford High School Gosford 72 20.78 1025 213
73 Oxford Falls Grammar School Oxford Falls 73 20.55 433 89
74 St Spyridon College Senior School Maroubra 74 19.81 308 61
75 Danebank An Anglican School for Girls Hurstville 75 19.63 428 84
76 St Ursulas College Kingsgrove 76 19.61 882 173
77 Epping Boys High School Eastwood 77 19.56 997 195
78 Macarthur Anglican School Cobbitty 78 19.45 473 92
79 Arden Anglican School Epping Campus Epping 79 19.35 434 84
80 Bethany College Hurstville 80 19.32 854 165
81 Our Lady of Mercy College Parramatta Parramatta 81 18.84 796 150
82 Burwood Girls High School Croydon 82 18.58 1071 199
83 Central Coast Grammar School Erina Heights 83 18.43 548 101
84 Cheltenham Girls High School Beecroft 84 18.4 1103 203
85 St Philips Christian College Newcastle Waratah 85 18.21 549 100
86 St Clares College Waverley 86 18.18 429 78
87 Killarney Heights High School Killarney Heights 87 18.14 634 115
88 St Marks Coptic Orthodox College Wattle Grove 88 18.08 343 62
89 Australian International School Singapore Singapore 89 17.92 173 31
90 Cherrybrook Technology High School Cherrybrook 90 17.78 1727 307
91 Newtown High School of Performing Arts Newtown 91 17.77 833 148
92 St Andrews Cathedral School Sydney 92 17.42 551 96
93 Mercy Catholic College Chatswood 93 17.35 513 89
94 William Clarke College Kellyville 94 17.14 747 128
95 Rose Bay Secondary College Dover Heights 95 16.57 869 144
96 International Grammar School Ultimo 96 16.35 575 94
97 Carlingford High School Carlingford 97 16.31 987 161
98 Hunter Valley Grammar School Ashtonfield 98 16.08 566 91
99 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College Kensington 99 16.01 662 106
100 Killara High School Killara 100 15.88 1341 213
Source: NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA).
Supplementary data from school publications.
Last Updated: 7 Sep 2023
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