This report shows the 2025 top students in each HSC subject, along with their ranking as assigned by the NSW Education Standards Authority.
Rankings are calculated from student HSC marks in the subject, or, where this results in a tie, from the average of the students' examination and assessment marks.
Students must achieve a band 6 or band E4 result in the relevant subject to appear in this list.
The number of top achievers reported varies from 5 to 20, according to the number of candidates taking each subject.
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| 251 | English Advanced | Lin, Valery | 1 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest |
| 252 | English Advanced | Phi, Emily | 1 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest |
| 253 | English Advanced | Zhang, Weiyi | 3 | Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney | Croydon |
| 254 | English Advanced | Tran, Justin | 4 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst |
| 255 | English Advanced | Parker, Tess | 5 | Wenona School | North Sydney |
| 256 | English Advanced | Fogarty, Ava Lily | 6 | Queenwood School for Girls | Mosman |
| 257 | English Advanced | Liang, Chen | 6 | The Kings School | North Parramatta |
| 258 | English Advanced | Kou, Miki | 8 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest |
| 259 | English Advanced | Brown, Alannah Lily Grace | 9 | St Catherines School | Waverley |
| 260 | English Advanced | Yim, Jio | 10 | Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney | Croydon |
| 261 | English Advanced | Gargya, Jaden | 11 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst |
| 262 | English Advanced | Kant, Nandini | 12 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest |
| 263 | English Advanced | Knox, Lucy | 12 | Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College | North Sydney |
| 264 | English Advanced | Lee, Erin | 12 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest |
| 265 | English Advanced | Cao, Mohan | 15 | The Scots College | Bellevue Hill |
| 266 | English Advanced | Ji, Shirley | 15 | Barker College | Hornsby |
| 267 | English Advanced | Loadsman, Thomas | 15 | St Josephs College Hunters Hill | Hunters Hill |
| 268 | English Advanced | Pan, Alicia | 15 | Prairiewood High School | Prairiewood |
| 269 | English Advanced | Pillai, Saira Jaslene | 15 | Cherrybrook Technology High School | Cherrybrook |
| 270 | English Advanced | Woo, Brendan | 15 | Sydney Boys High School | Moore Park |
| 271 | English EAL/D | Tsui, Tsz Yan | 1 | Stella Maris College | Manly |
| 272 | English EAL/D | Lau, Ho Shan Jayden | 2 | Knox Grammar School | Wahroonga |
| 273 | English EAL/D | Wang, Shenmei | 3 | Beijing Zhongguancun Foreign Language School | Beijing, China |
| 274 | English EAL/D | Ezzaddin, Ghassan Sami Hamid | 4 | Carlingford High School | Carlingford |
| 275 | English EAL/D | Pham, Khanh | 5 | Pymble Ladies College | Pymble |
| 276 | English EAL/D | Koo, Ying Lap | 6 | The Kings School | North Parramatta |
| 277 | English EAL/D | Liu, Enjia | 6 | Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney | Croydon |
| 278 | English EAL/D | Ke, Siting | 8 | Ravenswood School for Girls | Gordon |
| 279 | English EAL/D | Gunawan, Charlene | 9 | Ravenswood School for Girls | Gordon |
| 280 | English EAL/D | Tran, Ngoc Linh Ngan | 10 | Carlingford High School | Carlingford |
| 281 | English Extension 1 | Yim, Jio | 1 | Presbyterian Ladies College Sydney | Croydon |
| 282 | English Extension 1 | Feldman, Chase | 2 | Masada College | St Ives |
| 283 | English Extension 1 | Rimbo, Valerie | 3 | Kambala | Rose Bay |
| 284 | English Extension 1 | Chan, Logan | 4 | Conservatorium High School | Sydney |
| 285 | English Extension 1 | Smith, Charlotte Millie | 5 | Pittwater House Schools | Collaroy |
| 286 | English Extension 1 | Bartlett, Annabella | 6 | Wenona School | North Sydney |
| 287 | English Extension 1 | Price, Noah | 7 | Bulli High School | Bulli |
| 288 | English Extension 1 | Pan, Summer | 8 | Hornsby Girls High School | Hornsby |
| 289 | English Extension 1 | Frantz, Rebecca | 9 | Roseville College | Roseville |
| 290 | English Extension 1 | Soviner, Joanne | 10 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest |
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| 291 | English Extension 2 | Xiao, Yao | 1 | St Aloysius College | Milsons Point |
| 292 | English Extension 2 | Ashbolt, Giselle Sophia | 2 | Queenwood School for Girls | Mosman |
| 293 | English Extension 2 | Soltani, Baran | 3 | Willoughby Girls High School | Willoughby |
| 294 | English Extension 2 | Rebbeck, Katie | 4 | Great Lakes College Tuncurry Senior Campus | Tuncurry |
| 295 | English Extension 2 | Staber, Lachlan Alois | 5 | St Pius X College | Chatswood |
| 296 | English Extension 2 | Venayagam, Sarah | 6 | The Ponds High School | The Ponds |
| 297 | English Extension 2 | Parissis, Anthony Leo | 7 | St Pius X College | Chatswood |
| 298 | English Extension 2 | Rizwan, Naveera | 8 | Unity Grammar College | Austral |
| 299 | English Extension 2 | Lin, Yao Yutang | 9 | North Sydney Boys High School | Crows Nest |
| 300 | English Extension 2 | O'Loughlin, Callum | 10 | St Aloysius College | Milsons Point |
| 301 | English Standard | Kaur, Mankirat | 1 | Santa Sophia Catholic College | Gables |
| 302 | English Standard | Malak, Joy | 2 | Catherine McAuley Westmead | Westmead |
| 303 | English Standard | Carter, Charli | 3 | Menai High School | Menai |
| 304 | English Standard | Francis, Kristian | 4 | Casimir Catholic College | Marrickville |
| 305 | English Standard | Nasser, Ieesha | 5 | Alpha Omega Senior College | Auburn |
| 306 | English Standard | Chauhan, Hayley | 6 | The Ponds High School | The Ponds |
| 307 | English Standard | Super, Daniel | 6 | Reddam House Bondi Campus | North Bondi |
| 308 | English Standard | Atherton-Earle, Shayla | 8 | Cammeraygal High School | Crows Nest |
| 309 | English Standard | Farrell, Flynn David | 9 | Oakhill College | Castle Hill |
| 310 | English Standard | McQuillan, Sutter Paul | 10 | Cammeraygal High School | Crows Nest |
| 311 | English Standard | Baghdadi, Nourudeen | 11 | Alpha Omega Senior College | Auburn |
| 312 | English Standard | Saleem, Nawal | 12 | Alpha Omega Senior College | Auburn |
| 313 | English Standard | Jackson, Rosa | 13 | Mercy Catholic College | Chatswood |
| 314 | English Standard | Shynkarenko, Oleksandra | 13 | Oran Park High School | Oran Park |
| 315 | English Standard | Hearn, Annika | 15 | Killarney Heights High School | Killarney Heights |
| 316 | English Standard | McWilliam, Juliet Belle | 15 | Loreto Kirribilli | Kirribilli |
| 317 | English Standard | Cohen, Indiana Carrie | 17 | Reddam House Bondi Campus | North Bondi |
| 318 | English Standard | Mahfuz, Tahsin | 18 | Al Noori Muslim School Senior Campus | Greenacre |
| 319 | English Standard | Ingevics, Alex Phan | 19 | Cammeraygal High School | Crows Nest |
| 320 | English Standard | Harris, Sarah | 20 | Kincoppal Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart | Vaucluse |
| 321 | English Studies Examination | Bromley, Heidi | 1 | Sydney Distance Education High School | Woolloomooloo |
| 322 | Enterprise Computing | Mao, Xujing | 1 | The Kings School | North Parramatta |
| 323 | Enterprise Computing | Yu, Hai Tao | 2 | Normanhurst Boys High School | Normanhurst |
| 324 | Enterprise Computing | Nguy, Matthew | 3 | Pennant Hills High School | Pennant Hills |
| 325 | Enterprise Computing | Willett, Matthew John | 4 | William Clarke College | Kellyville |
| 326 | Enterprise Computing | Sheth, Neer Pranav | 5 | Normanhurst Boys High School | Normanhurst |
| 327 | Enterprise Computing | Liu, Yining | 6 | North Sydney Boys High School | Crows Nest |
| 328 | Enterprise Computing | Sufianto, Jake | 7 | Normanhurst Boys High School | Normanhurst |
| 329 | Enterprise Computing | Naveen, Aryan | 8 | Norwest Christian College | Riverstone |
| 330 | Enterprise Computing | Pawson, Aidan | 8 | Finigan School of Distance Education | Queanbeyan |
| 331 | Enterprise Computing | Su, Suki | 8 | Christadelphian Heritage College Sydney | Kemps Creek |
| 332 | Entertainment Industry Examination | Hardy, Grace | 1 | Newtown High School of Performing Arts | Newtown |
| 333 | Entertainment Industry Examination | Naschenweng, Claire | 1 | Southern Cross Catholic College | Burwood |
| 334 | Entertainment Industry Examination | Buckley, Stacey | 3 | Kingswood High School | Kingswood |
| 335 | Entertainment Industry Examination | Felice, Archie Joe | 3 | Newington College | Stanmore |
| 336 | Entertainment Industry Examination | Smith, Mila | 5 | Newtown High School of Performing Arts | Newtown |
| 337 | Filipino Continuers | Balamban, Julliana Danieka Maula | 1 | Secondary College of Languages Bankstown Girls Campus | Bankstown |
| 338 | Financial Services Examination | Earl, Bonnita | 1 | OneSchool Global NSW Maitland | East Maitland |
| 339 | Financial Services Examination | Proctor, Haigh | 1 | OneSchool Global NSW Maitland | East Maitland |
| 340 | Financial Services Examination | Farrar, Heidi | 3 | St John XXIII Catholic College Secondary | Stanhope Gardens |
| 341 | Food Technology | Dumpleton, Kara | 1 | Arden Anglican School Epping Campus | Epping |
| 342 | Food Technology | Sinclair, Ella | 1 | Blayney High School | Blayney |
| 343 | Food Technology | Arbidans, Emma | 3 | Clancy Catholic College | West Hoxton |
| 344 | Food Technology | Appleyard, Alyssa | 4 | Sydney Distance Education High School | Woolloomooloo |
| 345 | Food Technology | Wang, Cecilia Zixi | 5 | Gosford High School | Gosford |
| 346 | Food Technology | Lauff, Jessica | 6 | Mount St Benedict College | Pennant Hills |
| 347 | Food Technology | Muscat, Mikayla | 7 | Mount St Benedict College | Pennant Hills |
| 348 | Food Technology | de Mar, Beatrix | 8 | Roseville College | Roseville |
| 349 | Food Technology | Odisho, Angelina | 9 | Freeman Catholic College | Bonnyrigg Heights |
| 350 | Food Technology | Playle, Poppy Charlie | 9 | Pittwater House Schools | Collaroy |
| 351 | French Beginners | Bhogal, Sharan | 1 | Glenwood High School | Glenwood |
| 352 | French Beginners | Elsey, Kelly | 2 | Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay Campus | Glebe |
| 353 | French Beginners | Rooney, Monty | 2 | Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay Campus | Glebe |
| 354 | French Beginners | Wright, Tabitha Lindsay | 4 | Castle Hill High School | Castle Hill |
| 355 | French Beginners | Cicurel, Emily | 5 | St Ives High School | St Ives |
| 356 | French Continuers | Barry, Sophia | 1 | Ascham School | Edgecliff |
| 357 | French Continuers | Abeywickrema, Eliza | 2 | Ascham School | Edgecliff |
| 358 | French Continuers | Bannister, Arianne | 3 | Barker College | Hornsby |
| 359 | French Continuers | Walton, Samuel James | 3 | SHORE Sydney Church of England Grammar School | North Sydney |
| 360 | French Continuers | Chan, Jackson | 5 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst |
| 361 | French Extension | Chan, Jackson | 1 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst |
| 362 | French Extension | Rimbo, Valerie | 2 | Kambala | Rose Bay |
| 363 | French Extension | Bannan, Isabelle Ciara | 3 | Loreto Kirribilli | Kirribilli |
| 364 | French Extension | Jahani, Callan | 4 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst |
| 365 | French Extension | Conaglen, Katharine | 5 | SCEGGS Darlinghurst | Darlinghurst |
| 366 | Geography | Herbert, Alastair | 1 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst |
| 367 | Geography | Mishra, Savya | 1 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst |
| 368 | Geography | Grant, Melissa | 3 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest |
| 369 | Geography | Cook, Indiana Erica | 4 | Loreto Kirribilli | Kirribilli |
| 370 | Geography | Gaiter, Madeleine | 4 | Kildare Catholic College | Wagga Wagga |
| 371 | Geography | Leslie, Angus Euan | 6 | SHORE Sydney Church of England Grammar School | North Sydney |
| 372 | Geography | Reardon, Toby Jethro Stewart | 6 | Northern Beaches Secondary College Freshwater Campus | Freshwater |
| 373 | Geography | Zhou, Zi Ao | 8 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest |
| 374 | Geography | Deng, Liwen | 9 | Sydney Boys High School | Moore Park |
| 375 | Geography | Teng, Emily | 10 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest |
| 376 | German Beginners | Al-Soufi, Maya | 1 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 377 | German Beginners | Kloos, Amelie | 2 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 378 | German Beginners | Martin, Lena | 3 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 379 | German Beginners | Lai, Kayley | 4 | Hornsby Girls High School | Hornsby |
| 380 | German Beginners | Young, Ruby | 5 | Hornsby Girls High School | Hornsby |
| 381 | German Continuers | Gu, Matthew | 1 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst |
| 382 | German Continuers | Liu, Justin | 2 | North Sydney Boys High School | Crows Nest |
| 383 | German Continuers | Eibl, Felix | 3 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst |
| 384 | German Continuers | Chan, Jackson | 4 | Sydney Grammar School | Darlinghurst |
| 385 | German Continuers | Pan, Summer | 5 | Hornsby Girls High School | Hornsby |
| 386 | German Extension | Liu, Justin | 1 | North Sydney Boys High School | Crows Nest |
| 387 | German Extension | Hurley-Stone, Emil | 2 | Fort Street High School | Petersham |
| 388 | German Extension | Linzer, Anne-Catherine | 3 | International Grammar School | Ultimo |
| 389 | German Extension | Neame, Gemma | 4 | Ravenswood School for Girls | Gordon |
| 390 | German Extension | Ball, Sebastian | 5 | The Kings School | North Parramatta |
| 391 | Hindi Continuers | Gupta, Dhaani | 1 | Outside Tutor | N/A |
| 392 | Hindi Continuers | Parashar, Sanvi | 2 | Outside Tutor | N/A |
| 393 | Hindi Continuers | Deshwal, Liana | 3 | Outside Tutor | N/A |
| 394 | Hindi Continuers | Garg, Garvika | 3 | Outside Tutor | N/A |
| 395 | Hindi Continuers | Shukla, Aadvika | 3 | Outside Tutor | N/A |
| 396 | History Extension | Hynes, Alice | 1 | Hornsby Girls High School | Hornsby |
| 397 | History Extension | Marks, Isabella | 2 | St John Paul II Catholic College Nirimba | Nirimba Fields |
| 398 | History Extension | Huang, Mia | 3 | North Sydney Girls High School | Crows Nest |
| 399 | History Extension | Upadrasta, Sahithi | 4 | Penrith High School | Penrith |
| 400 | History Extension | Foo, Wilson | 5 | North Sydney Boys High School | Crows Nest |
| 401 | History Extension | Kneale, Alice | 6 | Killarney Heights High School | Killarney Heights |
| 402 | History Extension | Jani, Prisha | 7 | Baulkham Hills High School | Baulkham Hills |
| 403 | History Extension | Grey, Ruby | 8 | Inner Sydney High School | Surry Hills |
| 404 | History Extension | Clement, Katia | 9 | Roseville College | Roseville |
| 405 | History Extension | Vassallo, Lucy | 10 | Kambala | Rose Bay |
| 406 | Hospitality Examination | Roberts, Hannah Victoria | 1 | Tara Anglican School for Girls | North Parramatta |
| 407 | Hospitality Examination | Baker, Kiama | 2 | Kempsey Adventist School | Kempsey |
| 408 | Hospitality Examination | Faeeh, Haidar | 3 | Newington College | Stanmore |
| 409 | Hospitality Examination | Tan, Rhianna Mei Yi | 4 | Pacific Coast Christian School | Tweed Heads South |
| 410 | Hospitality Examination | Almosawi, Maryam | 5 | Al-Faisal College Liverpool Campus | Austral |
| 411 | Hospitality Examination | King, Louisa | 6 | Ravenswood School for Girls | Gordon |
| 412 | Hospitality Examination | Shmueli, Noga | 6 | St Ives High School | St Ives |
| 413 | Hospitality Examination | Cocks, Chelsea Charlotte | 8 | Tara Anglican School for Girls | North Parramatta |
| 414 | Hospitality Examination | Marles, Scarlett | 8 | Pymble Ladies College | Pymble |
| 415 | Hospitality Examination | Dennis, Oscar | 10 | Northern Beaches Secondary College Balgowlah Boys Campus | Balgowlah |
| 416 | Hospitality Examination | Jabar, Sarah Ali Radi | 10 | Al-Faisal College | Auburn |
| 417 | Human Services Examination | Zaragosa, Charlize Mariana | 1 | Burwood Girls High School | Croydon |
| 418 | Human Services Examination | Elms, Jessica | 2 | Oxley High School | North Tamworth |
| 419 | Human Services Examination | Hardy, Grace | 2 | Newtown High School of Performing Arts | Newtown |
| 420 | Human Services Examination | Keown, Emma | 2 | Newtown High School of Performing Arts | Newtown |
| 421 | Human Services Examination | Lovely, Bonnie | 5 | TAFE NSW Virtual VET | Ultimo |
| 422 | Human Services Examination | Roberts, Cameron | 5 | Kingswood High School | Kingswood |
| 423 | Hungarian Continuers | Varjan, Amina | 1 | Outside Tutor | N/A |
| 424 | Indonesian Beginners | Lim, Arnold Sidney | 1 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 425 | Indonesian Beginners | Andersen, Lily Paige | 2 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 426 | Indonesian Beginners | Siman, Vanessa | 3 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 427 | Indonesian Beginners | Rorich, Bella | 4 | Coffs Harbour Christian Community School | Bonville |
| 428 | Indonesian Beginners | Arnold, Kyla | 5 | Coffs Harbour Christian Community School | Bonville |
| 429 | Indonesian Continuers | Azizah, Hanun Shabrina | 1 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 430 | Indonesian Continuers | Gunawan, Fellisa | 2 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 431 | Indonesian Continuers | Kaur, Pearllyn | 3 | Macarthur Anglican School | Cobbitty |
| 432 | Indonesian Continuers | Sakinah, Misykah | 4 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 433 | Indonesian Continuers | Ong, Jason | 5 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 434 | Indonesian Extension | Azizah, Hanun Shabrina | 1 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 435 | Indonesian Extension | Sakinah, Misykah | 2 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 436 | Indonesian Extension | Gunawan, Fellisa | 3 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 437 | Indonesian Extension | Kaur, Pearllyn | 4 | Macarthur Anglican School | Cobbitty |
| 438 | Indonesian Extension | Gonesco, Luna | 5 | NSW School of Languages | Petersham |
| 439 | Industrial Technology | Smith, Catherine | 1 | Bethany College | Hurstville |
| 440 | Industrial Technology | Platt, Thomas | 2 | Denison College of Secondary Education Kelso | Kelso |
| 441 | Industrial Technology | Rudas, Marcel | 3 | Knox Grammar School | Wahroonga |
| 442 | Industrial Technology | Yardley, Noah | 3 | Coffs Harbour Christian Community School | Bonville |
| 443 | Industrial Technology | Manwaring, Charles | 5 | Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay Campus | Glebe |
| 444 | Industrial Technology | Forsyth, Torin | 6 | Mullumbimby High School | Mullumbimby |
| 445 | Industrial Technology | Macher, Nicholas James | 6 | St Patricks College Strathfield | Strathfield |
| 446 | Industrial Technology | Mackey, Jackson | 8 | Northern Beaches Secondary College Balgowlah Boys Campus | Balgowlah |
| 447 | Industrial Technology | D'Arcy, Charlotte | 9 | Bethany College | Hurstville |
| 448 | Industrial Technology | San Juan, Francesca | 10 | Mercy Catholic College | Chatswood |
| 449 | Industrial Technology | Wu, Jaiden | 10 | Tempe High School | Tempe |
| 450 | Information and Digital Technology Examination | Voudouris, Emmanouel | 1 | Redeemer Baptist School | North Parramatta |
Source: NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA).
Supplementary data from school publications.
Supplementary data from school publications.
Last Updated: 1 May 2026