Best schools in Australia revealed as 2022 NAPLAN results are published
2022’s NAPLAN scores are out, revealing which parts of the country are achieving the greatest academic success. Here is your guide to the results by state.
The 2022 NAPLAN scores are out, revealing which Australian schools are best in class, and which have climbed the rankings since the previous results.
Here is your brief guide to the NAPLAN results by state, including the top five primary and secondary schools, with links to our interactive map to show you how your school performed.
NEW SOUTH WALES
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Sydney’s selective schools have dominated in 2022’s NAPLAN exams, taking out nine of the top 10 spots in the secondary school results.
James Ruse Agricultural High School topped the list with a Year 9 average of 730.8, followed by fellow academic selectives North Sydney Boys High School on 709.4 and Sydney Girls High School on 709.
Meanwhile, in the primary schools, Year 5 students at elite private school Sydney Grammar scored the highest marks – and the only average above 600 points of any primary school.
Fellow inner city school Woollahra Public School came second, while Beecroft PS in Sydney’s north took out third.
Overall, the city schools outperformed their bush counterparts – of the top 20 primary schools, 10 were in Northern Sydney, four in the inner city, and six in Western Sydney. The top non-Sydney school on the list was Gib Gate School in Mittagong, coming in at number 40. The bottom 20 schools meanwhile were all in the regions.
TOP PRIMARY:
Sydney Grammar School, Darlinghurst, NSW
Abbotsleigh, Wahroonga, NSW
John Colet School, Belrose, NSW
St Aloysius’ College, Kirribilli, NSW
Hornsby North Public School, Hornsby, NSW
TOP SECONDARY:
James Ruse Agricultural High School
Sydney Girls High School
North Sydney Girls High School
North Sydney Boys High School
Baulkham Hills High School
VICTORIA
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A comparison of single-sex education shows boys’ schools lagging behind girls’ schools, new NAPLAN data reveals.
A total of 28 in the top 100 are girls’ only schools compared to only 12 boys’ schools.
The latest 2022 NAPLAN results, the first snapshot since Covid, shows the best non-selective secondary girls’ school is Fintona and the best non-selective secondary boys’ school is Camberwell Grammar.
TOP PRIMARY:
Presbyterian Ladies’ College
Harkaway Hills College
Fintona Girls’ School
Camberwell Grammar School
Camberwell Girls Grammar School
TOP SECONDARY:
MacRobertson Girls High School
Melbourne High School
Nossal High School
Suzanne Cory High School
Fintona Girls’ School
QUEENSLAND
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Brisbane’s Sunnybank Hills State School, Rainworth State School and St Aidan’s Anglican Girls School dominated in the primary schools, but all have developed into consistent high performers over the years.
The surprise performers were Brisbane’s Ormiston College and Sunshine Coast’s Coolum Beach Christian College, both of which were outside the top 40 in the five-year NAPLAN comparison, but have come on leaps and bounds to be inside the top six for 2022.
In the secondary sector, Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School, and Queensland Academy for Science Mathematics and Technology in Toowong unsurprisingly lead the way, as they regularly do.
But Whitsunday Anglican School on the central coast showed major improvement in 2022 after being ranked 45 in five-year comparison. Fellow regular high performers St Aidan’s Anglican Girls School in Brisbane’s west and Somerset College on the Gold Coast rounded out the top six for 2022 NAPLAN results.
TOP PRIMARY:
Sunnybank Hills State School
Rainworth State School
Brisbane Grammar School
Ormiston College
Coolum Beach Christian College
TOP SECONDARY:
Queensland Academy for Science Mathematics and Technology
Brisbane Grammar School
Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Whitsunday Anglican School
St Aidan’s Anglican Girls School
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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Several regional public schools with small enrolments have beaten high-fee charging Adelaide private schools in the latest NAPLAN results.
Wudinna Area School achieved higher year 9 literacy and numeracy results than Pulteney Grammar School and Westminster School while tiny Owen Primary School, north of Adelaide, was ranked fifth in the state for year 5.
This was ahead of Walford Anglican School for Girls, Pembroke School, Saint Ignatius’ College and St Peter’s College.
In other positive results for public education, Glenunga International High School was the state’s highest performing secondary school while one of its main feeders, Linden Park Primary School, was the best primary school.
The top-ranking private school across year 5 and year 9 was St Peter’s Girls’ School while St Andrew’s School at Walkerville was the best performing independent primary school.
TOP PRIMARY:
Linden Park Primary School
Dara School
St Peter’s Collegiate Girls’ School
St Andrew’s School
Owen Primary School
TOP SECONDARY:
Glenunga International High School
St Peter’s Collegiate Girls’ School
Walford Anglican School for Girls
Saint Ignatius’ College
Pembroke School
TASMANIA
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Tasmania’s top academic schools have been named, as the full list of every school’s 2022 NAPLAN results are revealed.
Sandy Bay’s Princes Street Primary School topped the table for Year 5 results, with their average results being the best among the nearly 200 primary schools whose results went live via the MySchool website Wednesday morning.
Princes Street Primary also scored ‘above average’ in Year 5 reading, writing and numeracy when compared to students with a similar background.
TOP PRIMARY:
Princes Street Primary School
Fahan School
The Launceston Preparatory School
South Hobart Primary School
Calvin Christian School
TOP SECONDARY:
Fahan School
The Friends’ School
OneSchool Global – Hobart Campus
John Calvin School
St Michael’s Collegiate School
NORTHERN TERRITORY
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Territory schools have proved distance should pose no challenge with many of the NT’s remote and online schools among the best NAPLAN performers.
The Essington School and Haileybury Rendall School are Darwin’s top performing NAPLAN schools across both year levels, and just south of the capital Durack Primary School had better primary results than any other Palmerston school.
Alice Springs School of the Air was the second best for the Central Australia region,
while Nhulunbuy Christian College in East Arnhem land took out a top gong in the NT’s rural and regional schools list.
TOP PRIMARY:
Haileybury Rendall School
The Essington School
Alice Springs Steiner School
Stuart Park Primary School
Larrakeyah Primary School
TOP SECONDARY:
The Essington School
Nhulunbuy Christian College
Haileybury Rendall School
Darwin Middle School
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic College
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