This report shows the 2025 top students in each HSC subject, along with their ranking as assigned by the NSW Education Standards Authority.
Rankings are calculated from student HSC marks in the subject, or, where this results in a tie, from the average of the students' examination and assessment marks.
Students must achieve a band 6 or band E4 result in the relevant subject to appear in this list.
The number of top achievers reported varies from 5 to 20, according to the number of candidates taking each subject.
Tweet
Share
50 of 871 entries are shown.
| 251 | English Advanced | Lin, Valery | 1 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest |
| 252 | English Advanced | Phi, Emily | 1 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest |
| 253 | English Advanced | Zhang, Weiyi | 3 | Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney | Croydon |
| 254 | English Advanced | Tran, Justin | 4 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst |
| 255 | English Advanced | Parker, Tess | 5 | Wenona School | North Sydney |
| 256 | English Advanced | Fogarty, Ava Lily | 6 | Queenwood School for Girls | Mosman |
| 257 | English Advanced | Liang, Chen | 6 | The Kings School | North Parramatta |
| 258 | English Advanced | Kou, Miki | 8 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest |
| 259 | English Advanced | Brown, Alannah Lily Grace | 9 | St Catherines School | Waverley |
| 260 | English Advanced | Yim, Jio | 10 | Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney | Croydon |
| |
|||||
| 261 | English Advanced | Gargya, Jaden | 11 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst |
| 262 | English Advanced | Kant, Nandini | 12 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest |
| 263 | English Advanced | Knox, Lucy | 12 | Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College | North Sydney |
| 264 | English Advanced | Lee, Erin | 12 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest |
| 265 | English Advanced | Cao, Mohan | 15 | The Scots College | Bellevue Hill |
| 266 | English Advanced | Ji, Shirley | 15 | Barker College | Hornsby |
| 267 | English Advanced | Loadsman, Thomas | 15 | St Josephs College Hunters Hill | Hunters Hill |
| 268 | English Advanced | Pan, Alicia | 15 | Prairiewood High School | Prairiewood |
| 269 | English Advanced | Pillai, Saira Jaslene | 15 | Cherrybrook Technology High School | Cherrybrook |
| 270 | English Advanced | Woo, Brendan | 15 | Sydney Boys High School | Moore Park |
| 271 | English EAL/D | Tsui, Tsz Yan | 1 | Stella Maris College | Manly |
| 272 | English EAL/D | Lau, Ho Shan Jayden | 2 | Knox Grammar School | Wahroonga |
| 273 | English EAL/D | Wang, Shenmei | 3 | Beijing Zhongguancun Foreign Language School | Beijing, China |
| 274 | English EAL/D | Ezzaddin, Ghassan Sami Hamid | 4 | Carlingford High School | Carlingford |
| 275 | English EAL/D | Pham, Khanh | 5 | Pymble Ladies College | Pymble |
| 276 | English EAL/D | Koo, Ying Lap | 6 | The Kings School | North Parramatta |
| 277 | English EAL/D | Liu, Enjia | 6 | Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney | Croydon |
| 278 | English EAL/D | Ke, Siting | 8 | Ravenswood School for Girls | Gordon |
| 279 | English EAL/D | Gunawan, Charlene | 9 | Ravenswood School for Girls | Gordon |
| 280 | English EAL/D | Tran, Ngoc Linh Ngan | 10 | Carlingford High School | Carlingford |
| 281 | English Extension 1 | Yim, Jio | 1 | Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney | Croydon |
| 282 | English Extension 1 | Feldman, Chase | 2 | Masada College | St Ives |
| 283 | English Extension 1 | Rimbo, Valerie | 3 | Kambala | Rose Bay |
| 284 | English Extension 1 | Chan, Logan | 4 | Conservatorium High School | Sydney |
| 285 | English Extension 1 | Smith, Charlotte Millie | 5 | Pittwater House Schools | Collaroy |
| 286 | English Extension 1 | Bartlett, Annabella | 6 | Wenona School | North Sydney |
| 287 | English Extension 1 | Price, Noah | 7 | Bulli High School | Bulli |
| 288 | English Extension 1 | Pan, Summer | 8 | Hornsby Girls High School | Hornsby |
| 289 | English Extension 1 | Frantz, Rebecca | 9 | Roseville College | Roseville |
| 290 | English Extension 1 | Soviner, Joanne | 10 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest |
| 291 | English Extension 2 | Xiao, Yao | 1 | St Aloysius College | Milsons Point |
| 292 | English Extension 2 | Ashbolt, Giselle Sophia | 2 | Queenwood School for Girls | Mosman |
| 293 | English Extension 2 | Soltani, Baran | 3 | Willoughby Girls High School | Willoughby |
| 294 | English Extension 2 | Rebbeck, Katie | 4 | Great Lakes College Tuncurry Senior Campus | Tuncurry |
| 295 | English Extension 2 | Staber, Lachlan Alois | 5 | St Pius X College | Chatswood |
| 296 | English Extension 2 | Venayagam, Sarah | 6 | The Ponds High School | The Ponds |
| 297 | English Extension 2 | Parissis, Anthony Leo | 7 | St Pius X College | Chatswood |
| 298 | English Extension 2 | Rizwan, Naveera | 8 | Unity Grammar College | Austral |
| 299 | English Extension 2 | Lin, Yao Yutang | 9 | North Sydney Boys High School | Crows Nest |
| 300 | English Extension 2 | O'Loughlin, Callum | 10 | St Aloysius College | Milsons Point |
Source: NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA).
Supplementary data from school publications.
Supplementary data from school publications.
Last Updated: 1 May 2026