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Each year, over 200 Sydney Boys High School students sit the Higher School Certificate (HSC). Since the new HSC commenced on average 76% of students score an ATAR/UAI of 90 or greater, and 19% score 99 or greater. In 2025, 170 students scored an ATAR of 90 or greater and 47 students scored an ATAR of 99 or greater. Students ATAR values are obtained from the NSW Universities Admission Centre or via survey at the annual school brunch in the last week of term 4 following the release of the ATARs. Students whose ATAR could not be collated are instead estimated from their actual HSC results, using a reliable estimator program. Each year the Principal, Dr K Jaggar, gives a presentation on the results of the previous year. In 2026 this took place on 9 February. The slideshow documents for this presentation is provided below: A z-score calculation, which measures the standardised difference between the school's mean results and the state mean, is available for each course. In small candidature courses, the z-score can be very high. In some small courses it may vary significantly from year to year. This analysis shows particularly strong results in 2025 for Software Engineering, Geography, Ancient History, Business Studies, PDHPE, Modern History, Business Studies, Physics, Classical Greek and Mathematics Advanced with z-scores of greater than 1 standard deviation: Overall, the school's strength continues to be Mathematics. In 2025, Students achieved, on average, a score 12.56 marks above the state average in Mathematics Advanced, 12.71 marks above the state in Mathematics Extension 1 and 8.10 marks above the state in Mathematics Extension 2. The school is similarly strong in sciences, social sciences, history and industrial arts/technology. The school's English results in 2025 continued to improved to an average result 4.30 marks above the state mean in English Advanced.
From the introduction of the "New HSC" in 2001, the number of "Band 6" results - scores of over 90 in a subject, also known as the "Distinguished Achievers List" - increased steadily before levelling off. This has been reflected in the school with an initial increase of in excess of 80% in the number of Band 6/E4 scores since the introduction of the New HSC, but a subsequent plateau in line with the state results. In 2025, results saw a substantial comparative improvement, with the school attaining 698 Band 6/E4 results, at 13% increase. The 208 Sydney Boys High School students received 1.61% of the state's total Band 6 awards.
Broken down subject by subject, in numerical terms Sydney Boys High sees the majority of its Band 6 results in Mathematics and the Maths Extension subjects followed by English, Chemistry and Physics. Smaller candidature subjects can achieve high percentage band 6 results - languages, Music, History, Engineering Studies, and Software Engineering.
Each year students who score 90 or above in 10 or more units of study are placed on the HSC All-Round Achievers list. In the 2025 HSC 49 students placed on All-Round Achievers list: Afnan Ahmed, Aayan Azhar, Arin Bhargava, Thomas Cao, Xavier Chalise, Clinton Chau, Jerry Chen, Andrew Ding, Dylan Dutt, Matthias Elgawly, Rayan Foiz, Nicholas Fung, Eric Gao, Pranav Gupta, Shafayat Hossain, Ric Hou, Nathan Hu, Alex Huang, Daksh Joshi, Jordan Komonen, Matthew Kuskoff, Joshua Leung, Harry Liu, Maxwell Ma, Mahdin Mamun, James McLoughlin, Aiden McManus, Rupantar Nirvor, Liam Nottage, Akith Perera, Xavier Perry, Declan Pham, Andrew Pye, Arthur Qiu, Jeffrey Qiu, Tanish Sarathy, Jin Shim, Alif Siddiqui, Samuel Tanama, Jeff Tse, Dimitri Tsovolos, Zarif Uddin, Sirapak Wateesatogkij, Maurice Wong, Brendan Woo, Nicky Wu, Alasdair Yong, Ryan Yu and Jonathan Zhang. The following students placed on the state Order of Merit with top 20 results in a subject: Brendan Woo (2nd Classical Greek, 15th English Advanced), Andrew Pye (2nd Software Engineering), Xavier Perry (4th Mathematics Extension 2), Arnav Agrawal (6th Mathematics Advanced), Arin Bhargava (9th Business Studies), Liwen Deng (9th Geography), Lucas Chan (18th aeq Mathematics Advanced), Mark Sharp (18th aeq Mathematics Advanced). No student earned a maximum ATAR of 99.95. Forty-seven students received an ATAR of 99 or above. Over 99% of Sydney High students go on to university education once they complete their HSC. In the 2025 entry, 99.5% students received an Australian university offer. Popular courses for students include business and commerce courses, various combined law degrees, medical sciences and engineering. The breakdown of degree programs for the Class of 2025 (entering university in 2026) follows: The general trend is for at least one half (and up to two-thirds) of students to attend the University of New South Wales, another third attend the University of Sydney and the remainder are spread primarily to the University of Technology, Sydney and Macquarie University, but some attending other universities around the state, interstate and overseas. In 2025/2026 a majority of Sydney Boys High School students chose to attend the University of New South Wales, followed by the University of Sydney then the other metropolitan universities.
The full table of student destinations between 1995 and 2025 (entering university between 1996 and 2026) is also available:
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Sydney Boys High School
ATAR/UAI Breakdown 2001-2025