This report ranks the best NSW HSC schools in order according to the total number of Distinguished Achiever award winners at each school in 2020.
Please note that this ranking method ignores the relative sizes of each school's year 12 cohort, so larger schools will, on average, tend to be favoured by this ranking method.
Also note that this report is an excerpt. To see the complete set of award statistics for each school, please refer to the NSW School HSC Statistics report.
1 | Knox Grammar School | Wahroonga | 845 | 289 |
2 | Baulkham Hills High School | Baulkham Hills | 800 | 255 |
3 | Sydney Boys High School | Surry Hills | 596 | 250 |
4 | James Ruse Agricultural High School | Carlingford | 705 | 234 |
5 | Barker College | Hornsby | 513 | 198 |
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6 | St Ignatius College | Lane Cove | 403 | 168 |
7 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst | 670 | 164 |
8 | Merewether High School | Broadmeadow | 273 | 159 |
9 | Sydney Girls High School | Surry Hills | 499 | 157 |
10 | Pymble Ladies College | Pymble | 457 | 156 |
11 | North Sydney Boys High School | Crows Nest | 526 | 151 |
12 | Normanhurst Boys High School | Normanhurst | 402 | 148 |
13 | The Kings School | North Parramatta | 393 | 140 |
14 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest | 541 | 139 |
15 | Abbotsleigh | Wahroonga | 399 | 138 |
16 | St Josephs College | ? | 284 | 137 |
17 | Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus | North Curl Curl | 362 | 136 |
18 | Fort Street High School | Petersham | 383 | 132 |
19 | Oakhill College Castle Hill | Castle Hill | 232 | 131 |
20 | St Aloysius College | Milsons Point | 372 | 131 |
21 | SHORE Sydney Church of England Grammar School | North Sydney | 335 | 130 |
22 | Cherrybrook Technology High School | Cherrybrook | 307 | 123 |
23 | Loreto Kirribilli | Kirribilli | 313 | 122 |
24 | Penrith High School | Penrith | 274 | 119 |
25 | Sydney Technical High School | Bexley | 242 | 118 |