Best Schools, Ranked by D.A. Success Rate, New South Wales, 2016

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.

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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
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
Source: NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA).
Supplementary data from school publications.
Last Updated: 14 Feb 2023
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