Street Address:
91 Pacific Highway,Hornsby, NSW 2077
Phone:
02 8438 7999Website:
www.barker.collegeSchool Category:
IndependentGender:
Co-EdLocal Council:
Hornsby ShireInternational Baccalaureate Diploma:
NoD.A. Awards
Who were the school's top HSC students in 2008?
Below are the 2008 top HSC students at Barker College in order of their total number of subjects awarded.
A subject can be awarded either through a Distinguished Achiever award or as a Subject Rank award (top place in subject).
Where students have equal numbers of subject awards, those with an All Rounder award are ranked higher. As additional tie-breakers, Subject Rank awards are ranked by their place value and they are also ranked higher than Distinguished Achiever awards. Where all of these measures are equal, entries are listed alphabetically.
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Student Name
|
Subjects
Awarded Count |
All Rounder
Award |
Subjects Awarded
|
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hill, Simon | 7 | Yes | |
| 2 | Asher, Michael | 7 | Yes | |
| 3 | Arkell, Thomas | 6 | Yes | |
| 4 | Carolan, Nicholas | 6 | Yes | |
| 5 | Colnan, Shaun | 6 | Yes | |
| 6 | Duff, Alexandra | 6 | Yes | |
| 7 | Hunter, Catriona | 6 | Yes | |
| 8 | Kesby, Alice | 6 | Yes | |
| 9 | Larcombe, Angus | 6 | Yes | |
| 10 | Openshaw, Alexander | 6 | Yes |
What were the school's top HSC subjects in 2008?
Below are the 2008 top HSC subjects at Barker College in order of their Distinguished Achiever award counts.
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Subject
|
Distinguished
Achiever Awards |
|
|---|---|---|
| 1 | English (Advanced) | 30 |
| 2 | Mathematics | 30 |
| 3 | Mathematics Extension 1 | 30 |
| 4 | Ancient History | 29 |
| 5 | Business Studies | 24 |
| 6 | General Mathematics | 21 |
| 7 | Personal Development, Health and Physical Education | 21 |
| 8 | Biology | 18 |
| 9 | Legal Studies | 18 |
| 10 | Drama | 17 |
School Statistics Charts
To view the statistics and trends for Barker College on the chart below, select one or more items from the dropdown list.
Multiple data items can be selected in any combination. Up to seven years of data is displayed.
Measurements and #rankings are displayed against the left axis. Percentages(%) are displayed against the right axis.
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School Ranking Ladder
Below is the 2008 HSC school ranking ladder.
This ladder shows the position of Barker College when all schools are ranked by their 2008 HSC Distinguished Achiever success rate percentage.
The success rate is the proportion of the school's HSC subject completions that resulted in a Distinguished Achiever award. If two schools have equal Distinguished Achiever success rates, the total number of HSC subject completions is used as a tie-breaker, with larger totals being ranked higher.
Ranking positions are assigned to the top 200 schools (at most).
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In 2008, did Barker College win the most awards in any subject?
This compares the number of Distinguished Achiever awards in each subject at each New South Wales School
In 2008, Barker College won the highest (or equal highest) number of awards in the following subjects:
(click on a heading or label to see the full list)
Have any students at Barker College won an Australian Student Prize?
The Australian Student Prize was a national prize awarded each year to the top 500 Australian senior secondary school students (the prize ceased in 2014).
In 2008, 1 student at Barker College won an Australian Student Prize. [See student names]
Since the year 2000, a total of 24 students at Barker College have won an Australian Student Prize. [See yearly totals]