St George Girls High School, Sydney Technical High School and Caringbah High School are again all in the ‘top NSW HSC schools’ for 2018.
St George Girls at Kogarah ranked 19 – a step up from its 2017 ranking of 24. Sydney Tech also improved on its ranking, climbing to 24th position from last year’s 29th.
Caringbah High School, a selective co-educational school, dropped just by one rank to 40th position from 39th last year.
In addition to the first in course awards, the NSW Education Standards Authority also released its Top Achievers in Course lists.
These are the students who achieved one of the highest places in an HSC course or VET exam and also achieved a result in the highest band possible (Band 6 or Band E4).
Girls tipped the boys across the board, many excelling in languages.
“Overall all our language results were well above state average,” Open High School co-ordinator at Blakehurst High, Roula Evangelinos, said. “Of the 54 students who studied a language, 16 received a band 6 and 29 received a band 5.”
Public schools in St George including Blakehurst, Beverly Hills Girls, Kingsgrove North, and St George Girls and Sydney Tech high schools had students on the list. Students from the Catholic sector including Bethany College, Marist College Kogarah and Penshurst, St Ursula’s College and St George Christian School were also listed.
In Sutherland Shire, students from Inaburra, and Caringbah, Engadine, Menai and Woolooware high schools were among the ‘top achievers’. Students from Aquinas, St John Bosco College, St Patrick’s College Sutherland also made up the Catholic school top achievers across a variety of subjects.
But school ranks do not reflect whole student performance, principal of Kogarah High School, Julie Ross, said.
She says it is important to acknowledge that ranking is only one measure of success of the school.
“Kogarah High School is very pleased to have moved up 24 places in the ranking, however, this does not show the true growth,” she said.
“Building the number of students studying for the HSC – from 96 in 2017 to 118 in 2018, is an important measure.”
Mrs Ross says that while many students may not achieve a band 6, their participation in formal learning and ongoing commitment to improvement is key.
“Increasing the length of time students are in formal education is very important for their future success, whether that be further study or employment,” she said.
“I'm really pleased with the breadth of curriculum we have been able to offer to keep our young people engaged in learning; everything from construction to economics, from drama to engineering. This is the measure of success of our school.”
TOP ACHIEVERS – NSW EDUCATION STANDARDS AUTHORITY
ST GEORGE
Blakehurst High School
Chrysanthi Diasinos – Modern Greek Beginners; Society & Culture
Beverly Hills Girls High School
Marwa Hajar, Hanadi Sayadi, Mariam Almajeed – Arabic Extension
Ranya El Chamtieh – Human Services Examination
Kingsgrove North High School
Huong Ly Pham – Chinese Beginners
St George Girls High School
Janet Cao – Japanese Extension
Hae Jung Park – Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
Sasha Bindu Patterson Rajak – Japanese Continuers & Extension
Jacquelyn Donna Harrington – Information Processes and Technology
Sydney Technical High School
Khiem Thien Nguyen – Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
Bethany College
Sarah Gadallah – Business Services Examination
Eve Fernando, Louisa Leone – Mathematics
Marist College Kogarah
Joshua Peter Vigliante – Construction Examination
Marist College Penshurst
Zachary Pitkethley – Studies of Religion 2.
St George Christian School
Emily Stevenson – Modern History; Spanish Beginners
St Ursula’s College
Kerri Gianesi – English Standard
Georgia Spiropoulos – Business Services
Ashley Wake – English Standard
SUTHERLAND SHIRE
Caringbah High School
Aidan Coughloan – Mathematics Extension 1
Rohan Alexander Harrington – Food Technology
Engadine High School
Dale Best – Construction Examination
Inaburra
Isaac Greene – Mathematics Extension 2
Jessica Henley – Earth and Environmental Science
Menai High School
Victoria Jessamine – Business Services
Isabelle Katsiris – Community and Family Studies; Society & Culture
Iman Codmani, Zena Kassir, Jack Carroll, Marcus Zongas – English Standard
Woolooware High School
Angelina Newton – Indonesian Continuers
Aquinas Catholic College
Lauren Agostini – Community & Family Studies
St John Bosco College
Estelle Friedrich – Community and Family Studies
Georgia O’Neill – Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
St Patrick’s College Sutherland
Ze Hong Zhou – Mathematics
Charles O’Bryan – Construction Examination
Saturday School of Community Languages, Kogarah High School
Juliana Velasquez – Spanish Continuers
Laura Vanessa Lopez Zuniga – Spanish Continuers & Extension
Emily Kasovska, Ana-Maria Stevans – Macedonian Continuers
Saturday School of Community Languages, St George Girls High School
Karam Yagan – Arabic Continuers
Evangelia Sakarellou, Irene Katsadima – Modern Greek Continuers & Extension
Eleftheria (Ria) Papadopoulou, Anna Korovesi – Modern Greek Extension
Sydney Institute St George College
Charlotte Grace Kenna – Human Services Examination
