Best Schools, Ranked by D.A. Success Rate, New South Wales, 2022

Below is the list of the best NSW HSC schools ranked in order of their Distinguished Achiever success rates in 2022.

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 67.71 1050 711
2 North Sydney Boys High School Crows Nest 2 62.95 950 598
3 Baulkham Hills High School Baulkham Hills 3 56.8 1250 710
4 Reddam House Bondi Campus North Bondi 4 53.62 636 341
5 North Sydney Girls High School Crows Nest 5 53.47 922 493
6 Sydney Grammar School Darlinghurst 6 50.73 1236 627
7 Abbotsleigh Wahroonga 7 46.88 960 450
8 Normanhurst Boys High School Normanhurst 8 46.43 812 377
9 Hornsby Girls High School Hornsby 9 45.98 696 320
10 SCEGGS Darlinghurst Darlinghurst 10 44.38 667 296
11 Sydney Boys High School Moore Park 11 44.12 1224 540
12 Loreto Kirribilli Kirribilli 12 43.73 766 335
13 St Catherines School Waverley 13 42.59 634 270
14 Kambala Rose Bay 14 42.4 526 223
15 St Aloysius College Milsons Point 15 42.08 953 401
16 Ascham School Edgecliff 16 40.87 597 244
17 Sydney Girls High School Surry Hills 17 40.72 1051 428
18 Meriden School Strathfield 18 40.54 888 360
19 Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus North Curl Curl 19 39.86 828 330
20 Pymble Ladies College Pymble 20 38.57 1374 530
21 Queenwood School for Girls Mosman 21 37.42 302 113
22 Alpha Omega Senior College Auburn 22 36.62 456 167
23 Al-Faisal College Auburn 23 35.28 652 230
24 Fort Street High School Petersham 24 34.93 899 314
25 Wenona School North Sydney 25 34.88 774 270
26 Al Noori Muslim School Senior Campus Greenacre 26 34.87 433 151
27 Moriah College Queens Park 27 34.41 837 288
28 Knox Grammar School Wahroonga 28 33.71 1860 627
29 Girraween High School Girraween 29 33.25 773 257
30 Roseville College Roseville 30 32.73 721 236
31 Tara Anglican School for Girls North Parramatta 31 32.5 480 156
32 Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney Croydon 32 32.44 863 280
33 St Lukes Grammar School Dee Why 33 32.23 636 205
34 Caringbah High School Caringbah 34 31.83 867 276
35 The Kings School North Parramatta 35 29.63 1296 384
36 Cranbrook School Bellevue Hill 36 29.23 804 235
37 SHORE Sydney Church of England Grammar School North Sydney 37 29.04 1195 347
38 Merewether High School Broadmeadow 38 28.48 1085 309
39 Masada College St Ives 39 28.18 220 62
40 Kincoppal Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart Vaucluse 40 28.16 561 158
41 Penrith High School Penrith 41 28.14 963 271
42 Ravenswood School for Girls Gordon 42 27.97 708 198
43 Hurlstone Agricultural High School Glenfield 43 27.63 847 234
44 Emanuel School Randwick 44 27.37 453 124
45 St Vincents College Potts Point 45 27.24 613 167
46 MLC School Burwood 46 27.01 411 111
47 St Ignatius College Lane Cove 47 26.93 1337 360
48 Loreto Normanhurst Normanhurst 48 26.05 902 235
49 St George Girls High School Kogarah 49 26.03 895 233
50 Barker College Hornsby 50 25.26 1936 489
Source: NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA).
Supplementary data from school publications.
Last Updated: 6 Sep 2023
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