Best Schools, Ranked by D.A. Success Rate, New South Wales, 2015

Below is the list of the best NSW HSC schools ranked in order of their Distinguished Achiever success rates in 2015.

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 74.12 1047 776
2 North Sydney Girls High School Crows Nest 2 63.82 973 621
3 Sydney Girls High School Surry Hills 3 60.98 1107 675
4 North Sydney Boys High School Crows Nest 4 59.11 988 584
5 Sydney Boys High School Moore Park 5 57.13 1241 709
6 Baulkham Hills High School Baulkham Hills 6 54.78 1234 676
7 Hornsby Girls High School Hornsby 7 51.17 768 393
8 Girraween High School Girraween 8 48.41 820 397
9 Abbotsleigh Wahroonga 9 46.7 970 453
10 Sydney Grammar School Darlinghurst 10 44.81 1232 552
11 Ascham School Edgecliff 11 44.62 455 203
12 Kambala Rose Bay 12 44.44 477 212
13 SCEGGS Darlinghurst Darlinghurst 13 42.64 652 278
14 Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus North Curl Curl 14 42.21 796 336
15 Queenwood School for Girls Mosman 15 42.14 420 177
16 Meriden School Strathfield 16 41.19 403 166
17 Reddam House Bondi Campus North Bondi 17 40.61 426 173
18 Moriah College Queens Park 18 40.2 806 324
19 Conservatorium High School Sydney 19 39.51 162 64
20 Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney Croydon 20 37.82 751 284
21 Pymble Ladies College Pymble 21 37.56 1515 569
22 St George Girls High School Kogarah 22 35.66 917 327
23 Hurlstone Agricultural High School Glenfield 23 35.5 1062 377
24 Masada College St Ives 24 35.19 270 95
25 Normanhurst Boys High School Normanhurst 25 34.28 808 277
26 Loreto Normanhurst Normanhurst 26 33.76 856 289
27 Roseville College Roseville 27 32.88 444 146
28 Penrith High School Penrith 28 32.47 964 313
29 St Aloysius College Milsons Point 29 32.44 894 290
30 Fort Street High School Petersham 30 32.04 1008 323
31 Tara Anglican School for Girls North Parramatta 31 31.87 433 138
32 Wenona School North Sydney 32 31.04 625 194
33 Ravenswood School for Girls Gordon 33 30.9 670 207
34 SHORE Sydney Church of England Grammar School North Sydney 34 30.63 1084 332
35 Caringbah High School Caringbah 35 29.87 894 267
36 Loreto Kirribilli Kirribilli 36 29.16 782 228
37 Knox Grammar School Wahroonga 37 28.13 1454 409
38 The Kings School North Parramatta 38 27.08 1056 286
39 Sydney Technical High School Bexley 39 27.07 846 229
40 Smiths Hill High School Wollongong 40 25.18 846 213
41 Gosford High School Gosford 41 25.15 1014 255
42 Merewether High School Broadmeadow 42 24.72 1157 286
43 Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College North Sydney 43 24.55 892 219
44 Frensham School Mittagong 44 24.35 345 84
45 Kincoppal Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart Vaucluse 45 24.28 552 134
46 MLC School Burwood 46 24.05 474 114
47 Barker College Hornsby 47 23.6 1856 438
48 Cranbrook School Bellevue Hill 48 23.56 917 216
49 Willoughby Girls High School Willoughby 49 23.18 768 178
50 Alpha Omega Senior College Auburn 50 22.93 375 86
Source: NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA).
Supplementary data from school publications.
Last Updated: 14 Feb 2023
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