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Revealed: The state’s most improved schools in the HSC

The NSW Education Department has identified 24 schools as the most improved in lifting band 4, 5 and 6 results over the past eight years.

  • Lucy Carroll

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Elly and Imogen Wagener enjoy the ride to school on the metro, thanks to their parents’ foresight.

Elly and Imogen’s parents made a clever decision 15 years ago. Now it’s paying off

The Sydney Metro is having a huge impact on schools in North Sydney – and the Wageners were ahead of the curve.

  • Christopher Harris
Matt Dopierala stepped into the role of principal of James Ruse Agricultural High School in Carlingford late last year.

‘I’m sure it will happen’: James Ruse High’s plan to return to No.1 revealed

For 27 years, the selective school reigned at the top of HSC league tables until 2023, when it was dethroned by North Sydney Boys.

  • Christopher Harris
Finn Bernstone Harris, Maxina Spence, Anthony Douaihy and Oscar Hartley are among the 50 school-leavers selected for the 2025 ArtExpress exhibition.

Relative values: Young artists focus on family as ArtExpress returns

The 42nd iteration of ArtExpress has opened at the Art Gallery of NSW, featuring the major works of 50 HSC graduates.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo
**AFR FIRST USE** Generic gen23 exam test high school certificate education students testing hsc. Photographed at Northern Beaches Secondary College Freshwater Snr Campus in Sydney on June 20, 2024. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer

Better oversight of HSC top achievers’ private coaching needed

Sydney’s estimated multimillion-dollar private tutoring industry is continuing to grow but a lack of regulation means its impact on the education system is difficult to assess. 

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Top HSC students share their university choices.

The hardest university degrees to get into, and the ones where ATARs are falling

Top HSC students share their university choices – including one for whom it’s just a back-up until he can get into an American institution.

  • Daniella White and Nicholas Osiowy
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HSC science dux Yeshaya Ram, Chinese and French dux Thomas Collins, English ace Grace Costigan and Warren Song, first in extension 2 maths.

The HSC subjects in which more students get better marks

The HSC scaling report belies the notion that doing easier courses is the path to success. See how every course scales in our searchable list.

  • Cindy Yin
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HSC students receive university offers: Search our database for cut-off scores

Use our interactive database to search for university and college courses throughout Australia in 2025 and their minimum entry requirements.

  • Craig Butt, Christopher Harris and Cindy Yin
Epping Boys High students receiving their HSC results. The school was a top-performing comprehensive school in mathematics.

The state’s top schools for HSC mathematics revealed

Epping Boys High had its highest share of maths students achieving marks above 90 on record, while Abbotsleigh and Meriden were among the top private all-girls schools.

  • Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone
St Clare’s College in Waverley achieved a higher HSC success rate than Kincoppal Rose Bay.

The low-fee Sydney schools that outrank expensive rivals in the HSC

Schools including St Clare’s in Waverley and Parramatta Marist High are outperforming high-fee private schools.

  • Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone

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