Below is the list of the best NSW HSC schools ranked in order of their Distinguished Achiever success rates in 2016.
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.
1 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford | 1 | 73.06 | 1058 | 773 |
2 | Baulkham Hills High School | Baulkham Hills | 2 | 62.31 | 1231 | 767 |
3 | North Sydney Boys High School | Crows Nest | 3 | 59.23 | 981 | 581 |
4 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest | 4 | 52.35 | 957 | 501 |
5 | Hornsby Girls High School | Hornsby | 5 | 51.5 | 732 | 377 |
6 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst | 6 | 50.37 | 1203 | 606 |
7 | Sydney Boys High School | Moore Park | 7 | 49.8 | 1249 | 622 |
8 | Reddam House Bondi Campus | North Bondi | 8 | 49.4 | 502 | 248 |
9 | Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus | North Curl Curl | 9 | 48.89 | 814 | 398 |
10 | Conservatorium High School | Sydney | 10 | 46.52 | 187 | 87 |
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11 | Normanhurst Boys High School | Normanhurst | 11 | 45.66 | 749 | 342 |
12 | SCEGGS Darlinghurst | Darlinghurst | 12 | 45.34 | 633 | 287 |
13 | Sydney Girls High School | Surry Hills | 13 | 43.36 | 1077 | 467 |
14 | Abbotsleigh | Wahroonga | 14 | 43.17 | 966 | 417 |
15 | Wenona School | North Sydney | 15 | 43.05 | 662 | 285 |
16 | Kambala | Rose Bay | 16 | 43.03 | 402 | 173 |
17 | St George Girls High School | Kogarah | 17 | 41.57 | 902 | 375 |
18 | Ascham School | Edgecliff | 18 | 40.11 | 526 | 211 |
19 | Queenwood School for Girls | Mosman | 19 | 38.99 | 495 | 193 |
20 | Girraween High School | Girraween | 20 | 38.03 | 823 | 313 |
21 | Fort Street High School | Petersham | 21 | 37.55 | 1068 | 401 |
22 | Meriden School | Strathfield | 22 | 37.1 | 620 | 230 |
23 | St Aloysius College | Milsons Point | 23 | 36.78 | 938 | 345 |
24 | Kincoppal Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart | Vaucluse | 24 | 36.61 | 549 | 201 |
25 | Loreto Kirribilli | Kirribilli | 25 | 35.66 | 830 | 296 |
26 | SHORE Sydney Church of England Grammar School | North Sydney | 26 | 35.25 | 1146 | 404 |
27 | Moriah College | Queens Park | 27 | 33.99 | 709 | 241 |
28 | Knox Grammar School | Wahroonga | 28 | 32.68 | 1536 | 502 |
29 | Caringbah High School | Caringbah | 29 | 32.64 | 864 | 282 |
30 | The Kings School | North Parramatta | 30 | 32.4 | 1148 | 372 |
31 | Pymble Ladies College | Pymble | 31 | 32.16 | 1536 | 494 |
32 | Penrith High School | Penrith | 32 | 32.12 | 959 | 308 |
33 | Barker College | Hornsby | 33 | 30.81 | 1795 | 553 |
34 | Hurlstone Agricultural High School | Glenfield | 34 | 30.22 | 963 | 291 |
35 | Sydney Technical High School | Bexley | 35 | 28.97 | 901 | 261 |
36 | Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney | Croydon | 36 | 28.96 | 670 | 194 |
37 | Merewether High School | Broadmeadow | 37 | 28.69 | 1070 | 307 |
38 | Emanuel School | Randwick | 38 | 28.49 | 358 | 102 |
39 | Ravenswood School for Girls | Gordon | 39 | 28.32 | 572 | 162 |
40 | Roseville College | Roseville | 40 | 27.31 | 476 | 130 |
41 | Alpha Omega Senior College | Auburn | 41 | 27.23 | 415 | 113 |
42 | Al-Faisal College | Auburn | 42 | 26.99 | 389 | 105 |
43 | Tara Anglican School for Girls | North Parramatta | 43 | 26.37 | 383 | 101 |
44 | Loreto Normanhurst | Normanhurst | 44 | 26.29 | 875 | 230 |
45 | St Catherines School | Waverley | 45 | 25.88 | 657 | 170 |
46 | Santa Sabina College | Strathfield | 46 | 25.29 | 783 | 198 |
47 | St Ignatius College | Lane Cove | 47 | 25.02 | 1403 | 351 |
48 | Gosford High School | Gosford | 48 | 24.93 | 1003 | 250 |
49 | Brigidine College St Ives | St Ives | 49 | 24.78 | 912 | 226 |
50 | Frensham School | Mittagong | 50 | 24.53 | 318 | 78 |