Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay Campus

Taylor St, Glebe NSW 2037

PublicHigh schoolYears 11-12Partially selective

787students

1,094ICSEA · higher than 87% of NSW high schools

40%language background other than English

3%Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander

#20 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

-1%enrolment change over 5 years

31FOEI (Family Occupation and Education Index; higher means more disadvantage, NSW average about 100)

3support classes

Enrolments by year, 2016–2025. Latest 798.

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 Secondary College Blackwattle Bay Campus on My School · Why some data is missing

HSC 2025

265Band 6 / E4 results (count)

229Band 6 / E4 results 2024

183Band 6 / E4 results 2023

6All-round achievers 2025

2All-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 Secondary College Blackwattle Bay Campus is a partially 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
Inner Sydney High School	Surry Hills	Public high school	2.3 km	1,104	1,160
Sydney Secondary College Balmain Campus	Rozelle	Public high school	2.5 km	1,112	854
Conservatorium High School	Sydney	Public high school	2.7 km	1,194	153
Sydney Secondary College Leichhardt Campus	Leichhardt	Public high school	2.7 km	1,104	784
Newtown High School of Performing Arts	Newtown	Public high school	2.9 km	1,127	1,144
Alexandria Park Community School	Alexandria	Public k–12 / combined	3.0 km	1,052	1,312
Sydney Distance Education High School	Woolloomooloo	Public high school	3.0 km	1,032	561
Sydney Boys High School	Moore Park	Public high school	3.4 km	1,189	1,202

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
Dulwich High School of Visual Arts and Design	Dulwich Hill	Public high school · 7-12	804	1,092
Kirrawee High School	Kirrawee	Public high school · 7-12	1,185	1,092
Tempe High SchoolPartially	Tempe	Public high school · 7-12	984	1,096
Glenwood High School	Glenwood	Public high school · 7-12	1,506	1,090
Northern Beaches Secondary College Freshwater Senior Campus	Freshwater	Public high school · 11-12	646	1,098
Richmond Agricultural Centre	Richmond	Public high school · 7-12	11	1,098

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.