Best Schools, Ranked by D.A. Success Rate, New South Wales, 2021

Below is the list of the best NSW HSC schools ranked in order of their Distinguished Achiever success rates in 2021.

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 70.58 1006 710
2 North Sydney Boys High School Crows Nest 2 59.29 953 565
3 Baulkham Hills High School Baulkham Hills 3 58.33 1207 704
4 Sydney Grammar School Darlinghurst 4 56.13 1167 655
5 Sydney Girls High School Surry Hills 5 53.43 1007 538
6 Reddam House Bondi Campus North Bondi 6 52.34 640 335
7 Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus North Curl Curl 7 51.99 804 418
8 Hornsby Girls High School Hornsby 8 51 700 357
9 North Sydney Girls High School Crows Nest 9 49.25 871 429
10 Normanhurst Boys High School Normanhurst 10 49.15 763 375
11 Kambala Rose Bay 11 47.68 518 247
12 Meriden School Strathfield 12 47.09 841 396
13 Sydney Boys High School Moore Park 13 46.55 1246 580
14 Conservatorium High School Sydney 14 43.92 189 83
15 Abbotsleigh Wahroonga 15 43.79 1039 455
16 Ascham School Edgecliff 16 43.77 610 267
17 SCEGGS Darlinghurst Darlinghurst 17 42.15 650 274
18 Moriah College Queens Park 18 40.47 635 257
19 Girraween High School Girraween 19 39.68 814 323
20 Loreto Kirribilli Kirribilli 20 38.8 781 303
21 Ravenswood School for Girls Gordon 21 38.73 519 201
22 Fort Street High School Petersham 22 38.65 960 371
23 St Catherines School Waverley 23 38.42 557 214
24 Wenona School North Sydney 24 38.41 690 265
25 Pymble Ladies College Pymble 25 36.67 1189 436
26 Al-Faisal College Auburn 26 36.19 641 232
27 St Aloysius College Milsons Point 27 36.06 918 331
28 Kincoppal Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart Vaucluse 28 34.81 563 196
29 St Clares College Waverley 29 33.74 326 110
30 Knox Grammar School Wahroonga 30 33 1821 601
31 Alpha Omega Senior College Auburn 31 32.69 520 170
32 Al Noori Muslim School Senior Campus Greenacre 32 32.47 385 125
33 Penrith High School Penrith 33 32.36 893 289
34 Tara Anglican School for Girls North Parramatta 34 32.25 462 149
35 Cranbrook School Bellevue Hill 35 31.71 864 274
36 Emanuel School Randwick 36 31.18 449 140
37 Tangara School for Girls Cherrybrook 37 30.89 191 59
38 Loreto Normanhurst Normanhurst 38 30.3 1010 306
39 MLC School Burwood 39 29.71 441 131
40 Hurlstone Agricultural High School Glenfield 40 29.65 860 255
41 St Lukes Grammar School Dee Why 41 29.55 511 151
42 Sydney Technical High School Bexley 42 29.17 864 252
43 Roseville College Roseville 43 29.14 652 190
44 Caringbah High School Caringbah 44 28.95 822 238
45 St George Girls High School Kogarah 45 27.76 915 254
46 Frensham School Mittagong 46 27.62 362 100
47 Sefton High School Sefton 47 27.53 908 250
48 Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney Croydon 48 27.28 887 242
49 Queenwood School for Girls Mosman 49 26.44 382 101
50 Merewether High School Broadmeadow 50 26.21 1057 277
Source: NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA).
Supplementary data from school publications.
Last Updated: 6 Sep 2023
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