Best Schools, Ranked by D.A. Success Rate, New South Wales, 2025

NSWBest Schools by D.A. Success Rate2025

Below is the list of the best NSW HSC schools ranked in order of their Distinguished Achiever success rates in 2025.

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.

50 of 200 entries are shown.
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101 Mercy Catholic College Chatswood 101 17.67 713 126
102 SCECGS Redlands Cremorne 102 17.55 416 73
103 St Ursulas College Kingsgrove 103 17.54 975 171
104 Redeemer Baptist School North Parramatta 104 17.37 167 29
105 St George Christian School Hurstville 105 17.35 392 68
106 St Mary and St Minas Coptic Orthodox College Rockdale 106 17.24 203 35
107 Aquinas College Menai 107 17.08 773 132
108 Arden Anglican School Epping Campus Epping 108 17.05 604 103
109 St Marys Cathedral College Sydney 109 16.85 552 93
110 Christian Brothers High School Lewisham Lewisham 110 16.72 598 100
111 Macarthur Anglican School Cobbitty 111 16.63 517 86
112 Amity College Prestons Prestons 112 16.4 921 151
113 Northern Beaches Secondary College Mackellar Girls Campus Manly Vale 113 16.33 735 120
114 Trinity Grammar School Summer Hill 114 16.28 817 133
115 Strathfield Girls High School Strathfield 115 16.25 929 151
116 Oxford Falls Grammar School Oxford Falls 116 16.2 469 76
117 St John Bosco College Engadine 117 16.17 501 81
118 Carlingford High School Carlingford 118 15.87 1380 219
119 Castle Hill High School Castle Hill 119 15.77 1611 254
120 Freeman Catholic College Bonnyrigg Heights 120 15.69 1173 184
121 Al-Faisal College Liverpool Campus Austral 121 15.53 425 66
122 St Philips Christian College Newcastle Waratah 122 15.41 558 86
123 St Columba Anglican School Port Macquarie 123 15.37 449 69
124 Rosebank College Five Dock 124 15.22 1117 170
125 Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay Campus Glebe 125 15.07 1765 266
126 Marist College Eastwood Eastwood 126 14.96 655 98
127 St Scholasticas College Glebe Point Glebe Point 127 14.43 866 125
128 Marcellin College Randwick 128 14.42 652 94
129 The Hills Grammar School Kenthurst 129 14.41 451 65
130 St Patricks College Sutherland Sutherland 130 14.32 971 139
131 Marist College Kogarah Bexley 131 14.22 647 92
132 Emmanuel Anglican College Ballina 132 14.18 275 39
133 St Charbels College Punchbowl 133 14.14 396 56
134 St Pius X College Chatswood 134 14.13 800 113
135 Domremy College Five Dock 135 14.11 482 68
136 Xavier Catholic College Ballina Skennars Head 136 13.89 583 81
137 Oakhill College Castle Hill 137 13.58 2401 326
138 Northern Beaches Secondary College Freshwater Campus Freshwater 138 13.54 1617 219
139 Wollemi College Werrington 139 13.5 200 27
140 William Clarke College Kellyville 140 13.35 1056 141
141 Killara High School Killara 141 13.3 1444 192
142 Ryde Secondary College Ryde 142 13.28 1160 154
143 Burwood Girls High School Croydon 143 13.02 1029 134
144 Dulwich High School of Visual Arts and Design Dulwich Hill 144 12.87 567 73
145 Casimir Catholic College Marrickville 145 12.76 431 55
146 Australian International School Hong Kong Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong 146 12.7 244 31
147 Asquith Girls High School Asquith 147 12.66 482 61
148 St Patricks Marist College Dundas 148 12.59 699 88
149 Cerdon College Merrylands 149 12.38 929 115
150 Holy Cross College Ryde 150 12.34 316 39
Source: NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA).
Supplementary data from school publications.
Last Updated: 1 May 2026
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