Sydney Boys High School

556 Cleveland Street, Moore Park NSW 2021

PublicHigh schoolYears 7-12Fully selective

1,202students

1,189ICSEA · higher than 97% of NSW high schools

93%language background other than English

0%Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander

#3 of 34 NSW public schools with published HSC results, on HSC Band 6 / E4 results, top 10% list (NESA merit lists)Top 10%See the full list

Attendance and enrolment

94.5%attendance rate, 2024 · -1.1 pts over 3 years

-0%enrolment change over 5 years

5FOEI (Family Occupation and Education Index; higher means more disadvantage, NSW average about 100)

Enrolments by year, 2016–2025. Latest 1,205.

NAPLAN

School-level NAPLAN results are published by ACARA on My School under terms that do not allow them to be reproduced here. See Sydney Boys High School on My School · Why some data is missing

HSC 2025

653Band 6 / E4 results (count)

604Band 6 / E4 results 2024

536Band 6 / E4 results 2023

49All-round achievers 2025

34All-round achievers 2024

Counts are derived from NESA's published merit lists and exclude students who opted out of publication. NSW law does not permit ranking schools by results, so no rank or percentile is shown, apart from the permitted top-10% list, which this school is on.

Selective entry

Sydney Boys High School is a fully selective school. Entry is by the state placement test in the year before starting; applications open early in the year. The department no longer publishes per-school minimum entry scores.

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Location and nearby schools

Straight-line distances. List every school within 5 to 50 km.

School	Suburb	Type	Distance	ICSEA	Students
Sydney Girls High School	Surry Hills	Public high school	0.3 km	1,193	929
Inner Sydney High School	Surry Hills	Public high school	1.2 km	1,104	1,160
Alexandria Park Community School	Alexandria	Public k–12 / combined	2.3 km	1,052	1,312
Sydney Distance Education High School	Woolloomooloo	Public high school	2.4 km	1,032	561
Conservatorium High School	Sydney	Public high school	3.2 km	1,194	153
Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay Campus	Glebe	Public high school	3.4 km	1,094	787
Randwick High School	Randwick	Public high school	3.8 km	1,071	1,460
Newtown High School of Performing Arts	Newtown	Public high school	3.8 km	1,127	1,144

Schools with a similar ICSEA in NSW

Same sector and type, ICSEA within 25 points. This is the comparison that separates teaching from postcode.

School	Suburb	Type	Students	ICSEA
Penrith High SchoolFully	Penrith	Public high school · 7-12	928	1,186
Smiths Hill High SchoolFully	Wollongong	Public high school · 7-12	735	1,186
Sydney Girls High SchoolFully	Surry Hills	Public high school · 7-12	929	1,193
Conservatorium High School	Sydney	Public high school · 7-12	153	1,194
North Sydney Boys High SchoolFully	North Sydney	Public high school · 7-12	933	1,195
Girraween High SchoolFully	Girraween	Public high school · 7-12	782	1,199

About this data

Figures are from the latest published datasets and can lag the school by a year. Confirm enrolment rules and catchment boundaries with the school or department before relying on them.