Best Schools, Ranked by D.A. Success Rate, New South Wales, 2024

Below is the list of the best NSW HSC schools ranked in order of their Distinguished Achiever success rates in 2024.

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 North Sydney Boys High School Crows Nest 1 64.9 869 564
2 James Ruse Agricultural High School Carlingford 2 62.88 1029 647
3 Sydney Grammar School Darlinghurst 3 56.38 1183 667
4 Normanhurst Boys High School Normanhurst 4 54.95 788 433
5 Reddam House Bondi Campus North Bondi 5 54.94 739 406
6 Baulkham Hills High School Baulkham Hills 6 54.14 1221 661
7 Hornsby Girls High School Hornsby 7 51.99 679 353
8 North Sydney Girls High School Crows Nest 8 50.06 899 450
9 Sydney Boys High School Moore Park 9 49.39 1223 604
10 Abbotsleigh Wahroonga 10 48.86 1052 514
11 Meriden School Strathfield 11 48.05 872 419
12 Kambala Rose Bay 12 45.91 514 236
13 Conservatorium High School Sydney 13 45.41 185 84
14 St Aloysius College Milsons Point 14 44.74 979 438
15 Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus North Curl Curl 15 44.59 785 350
16 SCEGGS Darlinghurst Darlinghurst 16 44.25 678 300
17 Sydney Girls High School Surry Hills 17 43.11 1030 444
18 Knox Grammar School Wahroonga 18 42.85 2077 890
19 Alpha Omega Senior College Auburn 19 42.53 689 293
20 Pymble Ladies College Pymble 20 41.52 1597 663
21 Loreto Kirribilli Kirribilli 21 41.52 802 333
22 Al-Faisal College Auburn 22 41.42 688 285
23 Ascham School Edgecliff 23 40.65 615 250
24 St Catherines School Waverley 24 39.51 729 288
25 Roseville College Roseville 25 39.35 643 253
26 SHORE Sydney Church of England Grammar School North Sydney 26 39.3 1173 461
27 Wenona School North Sydney 27 39.25 856 336
28 Fort Street High School Petersham 28 38.17 875 334
29 Merewether High School Broadmeadow 29 35.7 1042 372
30 Penrith High School Penrith 30 35.26 919 324
31 Northholm Grammar School Arcadia 31 35.14 222 78
32 Girraween High School Girraween 32 35.12 803 282
33 Moriah College Queens Park 33 34.61 705 244
34 The Kings School North Parramatta 34 34.25 1340 459
35 Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney Croydon 35 33.59 923 310
36 Queenwood School for Girls Mosman 36 33.55 456 153
37 Masada College St Ives 37 32.6 181 59
38 St George Girls High School Kogarah 38 32.21 801 258
39 Al Noori Muslim School Senior Campus Greenacre 39 30.37 540 164
40 Ravenswood School for Girls Gordon 40 29.88 646 193
41 The Scots College Bellevue Hill 41 29.17 1049 306
42 Emanuel School Randwick 42 28.63 468 134
43 Cranbrook School Bellevue Hill 43 28.62 905 259
44 Hurlstone Agricultural High School Glenfield 44 28.56 1047 299
45 St Lukes Grammar School Dee Why 45 28.23 744 210
46 Central Coast Grammar School Erina Heights 46 28.13 654 184
47 Barker College Hornsby 47 27.55 1920 529
48 St Clares College Waverley 48 27.46 528 145
49 Pittwater House Schools Collaroy 49 27.01 485 131
50 Frensham School Mittagong 50 26.97 356 96
Source: NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA).
Supplementary data from school publications.
Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024
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