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.
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 |
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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 |