Best Schools, Ranked by D.A. Success Rate, New South Wales, 2025

NSWBest Schools by D.A. Success Rate2025

Below is the list of the best NSW HSC schools ranked in order of their Distinguished Achiever success rates in 2025.

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 North Sydney Boys High School Crows Nest 1 71.71 926 664
2 James Ruse Agricultural High School Carlingford 2 70.43 1001 705
3 Sydney Grammar School Darlinghurst 3 60.99 1251 763
4 North Sydney Girls High School Crows Nest 4 60.46 908 549
5 Normanhurst Boys High School Normanhurst 5 57.73 750 433
6 Sydney Boys High School Moore Park 6 54.19 1205 653
7 Baulkham Hills High School Baulkham Hills 7 51.53 1209 623
8 Hornsby Girls High School Hornsby 8 51.05 711 363
9 St Aloysius College Milsons Point 9 48.03 1016 488
10 Reddam House Bondi Campus North Bondi 10 46.99 830 390
11 Abbotsleigh Wahroonga 11 45.58 1086 495
12 Ascham School Edgecliff 12 45.43 634 288
13 Sydney Girls High School Surry Hills 13 44.24 999 442
14 Ravenswood School for Girls Gordon 14 42.68 806 344
15 Conservatorium High School Sydney 15 42.55 235 100
16 Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney Croydon 16 42.41 922 391
17 Penrith High School Penrith 17 41.66 917 382
18 Pymble Ladies College Pymble 18 40.63 1585 644
19 Roseville College Roseville 19 40.58 690 280
20 Fort Street High School Petersham 20 40.2 898 361
21 SCEGGS Darlinghurst Darlinghurst 21 39.02 656 256
22 Al-Faisal College Auburn 22 38.87 710 276
23 Merewether High School Broadmeadow 23 38.71 1041 403
24 Meriden School Strathfield 24 38.11 1186 452
25 Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus North Curl Curl 25 38.01 784 298
26 Girraween High School Girraween 26 37.83 801 303
27 SHORE Sydney Church of England Grammar School North Sydney 27 37.59 1237 465
28 Alpha Omega Senior College Auburn 28 36.07 671 242
29 Knox Grammar School Wahroonga 29 35.97 2013 724
30 Loreto Kirribilli Kirribilli 30 35.44 821 291
31 Caringbah High School Caringbah 31 34.36 876 301
32 Queenwood School for Girls Mosman 32 34.1 519 177
33 Gosford High School Gosford 33 33.84 993 336
34 Kincoppal Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart Vaucluse 34 33.76 628 212
35 Wenona School North Sydney 35 33.75 954 322
36 Kambala Rose Bay 36 33.7 451 152
37 Northholm Grammar School Arcadia 37 33.2 244 81
38 St Catherines School Waverley 38 33.14 703 233
39 Tara Anglican School for Girls North Parramatta 39 32.45 567 184
40 Loreto Normanhurst Normanhurst 40 31.35 1008 316
41 Al Noori Muslim School Senior Campus Greenacre 41 31.01 674 209
42 The Kings School North Parramatta 42 30.82 1353 417
43 Hurlstone Agricultural High School Glenfield 43 29.39 1041 306
44 Parramatta Marist High School Westmead 44 29.28 724 212
45 St George Girls High School Kogarah 45 29.02 858 249
46 Sydney Technical High School Bexley 46 28.64 817 234
47 Cranbrook School Bellevue Hill 47 28.44 981 279
48 Brigidine College St Ives St Ives 48 27.87 818 228
49 Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College North Sydney 49 27.54 944 260
50 Barker College Hornsby 50 27.51 1963 540
Source: NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA).
Supplementary data from school publications.
Last Updated: 1 May 2026
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