Best Schools, Ranked by D.A. Success Rate, New South Wales, 2020

Below is the list of the best NSW HSC schools ranked in order of their Distinguished Achiever success rates in 2020.

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 68.18 1034 705
2 Baulkham Hills High School Baulkham Hills 2 63.69 1256 800
3 North Sydney Boys High School Crows Nest 3 59.75 882 527
4 North Sydney Girls High School Crows Nest 4 58.68 922 541
5 Sydney Grammar School Darlinghurst 5 58.06 1154 670
6 Hornsby Girls High School Hornsby 6 54.63 723 395
7 Normanhurst Boys High School Normanhurst 7 54.62 736 402
8 Conservatorium High School Sydney 8 52.05 171 89
9 Sydney Girls High School Surry Hills 9 50.97 979 499
10 Sydney Boys High School Moore Park 10 47.49 1255 596
11 Ascham School Edgecliff 11 46.32 639 296
12 Reddam House Bondi Campus North Bondi 12 45.72 643 294
13 Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus North Curl Curl 13 44.97 805 362
14 SCEGGS Darlinghurst Darlinghurst 14 43.69 689 301
15 Wenona School North Sydney 15 43.36 821 356
16 Abbotsleigh Wahroonga 16 42.67 935 399
17 Meriden School Strathfield 17 42.16 899 379
18 Fort Street High School Petersham 18 41.95 913 383
19 Knox Grammar School Wahroonga 19 40.92 2065 845
20 St Aloysius College Milsons Point 20 40.66 915 372
21 Kambala Rose Bay 21 39.76 410 163
22 Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney Croydon 22 39.47 674 266
23 Loreto Kirribilli Kirribilli 23 39.13 800 313
24 St Lukes Grammar School Dee Why 24 38.26 528 202
25 Tangara School for Girls Cherrybrook 25 36.97 165 61
26 Loreto Normanhurst Normanhurst 26 36.43 936 341
27 Girraween High School Girraween 27 35.65 819 292
28 Tara Anglican School for Girls North Parramatta 28 34.87 456 159
29 St Catherines School Waverley 29 33.8 648 219
30 Caringbah High School Caringbah 30 32.79 863 283
31 Pymble Ladies College Pymble 31 32.74 1402 459
32 Al Noori Muslim School Senior Campus Greenacre 32 31.02 361 112
33 Hurlstone Agricultural High School Glenfield 33 30.98 836 259
34 The Kings School North Parramatta 34 30.7 1280 393
35 Roseville College Roseville 35 30.22 556 168
36 Cranbrook School Bellevue Hill 36 29.75 837 249
37 Penrith High School Penrith 37 29.69 923 274
38 Emanuel School Randwick 38 29.52 332 98
39 St George Girls High School Kogarah 39 29.45 927 273
40 SHORE Sydney Church of England Grammar School North Sydney 40 28.8 1163 335
41 Moriah College Queens Park 41 28.69 732 210
42 Sydney Technical High School Bexley 42 28.34 854 242
43 Northern Beaches Secondary College Mackellar Girls Campus Manly Vale 43 28.03 785 220
44 St Ignatius College Lane Cove 44 27.74 1453 403
45 Newcastle Grammar School Newcastle 45 27.62 467 129
46 Parramatta Marist High School Westmead 46 26.69 712 190
47 Barker College Hornsby 47 26.66 1924 513
48 Santa Sabina College Strathfield 48 26.53 603 160
49 Merewether High School Broadmeadow 49 26.3 1042 274
50 Brigidine College Randwick Randwick 50 26.25 659 173
Source: NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA).
Supplementary data from school publications.
Last Updated: 7 Sep 2023
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