About HSC, NAPLAN and coverage
“NSW rank” is the unofficial TopScores 2025 HSC Distinguished Achiever rank, updated 1 May 2026. It divides Band 6/E4 results by HSC course completions; only the top 200 receive a rank. It is one academic measure, not an overall school-quality score.
A missing rank is not a zero result. Cards distinguish schools outside the published Top 200, junior campuses with no HSC cohort, shared multi-campus results, new schools without a 2025 cohort, results not yet researched for this explorer, and unavailable data.
Local rank is calculated by this site from the unweighted average of the five 2025 Year 9 domains among reporting schools within the selected radius. It is not an official ACARA or NSW rank. Shared campuses use the same reporting-school score and rank; ownership, selectivity and search filters do not alter the radius ranking.
A missing NAPLAN result is not a zero. It means 2025 Year 9 scores are not published for that reporting school, which may reflect cohort size, participation, campus year range or consolidated reporting. Use the published means alongside Year 7→9 progress and similar-background comparisons on My School.
The 50 km catalogue contains 464 current secondary or combined campuses: 200 mainstream government schools from NSW Government data, plus 264 non-government campuses from the Australian Schools List. Distance-education, standalone intensive-English, environmental-education and special-school settings are outside this map’s public-school scope. Selective status comes from the NSW public-school dataset and refers to the official academic selective program.
“Selective” means the NSW public academic selective program. A private school shown as outside that program may still use its own enrolment criteria.
Private-school fees use the latest official school or system schedule available. Figures are annual domestic day-student amounts for the first or eldest child before sibling discounts. “Known total” adds published compulsory per-student and family charges where they can be calculated; application, enrolment, voluntary contributions and optional activities are excluded. Always confirm the payable amount with the school.
2025 Year 9 NAPLAN school results © ACARA; reproduced with permission. Averages and local ranks are calculated by this site. ACARA does not endorse this site or its derived rankings.
© Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) 2009 to present. Australian Schools List material was accessed 15 August 2026 and modified to select open secondary and combined campuses within 50 km. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. ACARA does not endorse this site.
Australian Schools List updated 31 July 2026 · NSW public schools extracted 3 August 2026 · Map © OpenStreetMap contributors