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.
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 |
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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 |