A partially selective public high school in Armidale, on the Northern Tablelands, for boys and girls in Years 7 to 12. Partially selective means it has selective classes alongside classes for local students. Here’s how to get in, how its students do in the HSC (the exams at the end of Year 12), and what the school is like.
Bing’s Academy is independent of the school. Every figure here is from a public source, named under each section.
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The selective stream is a set of classes for students offered a selective place, most of them through the Selective test in Year 6. Later places go through the school: its page says families apply directly, usually between June and July.
What the school says: “For entry in Years 8 to 11, you apply directly to our school – usually between June and July.” The school’s website, read 28 October 2026
Year 7 places go through the Department’s Selective test. Selective places in Years 8 to 11 go through the school directly, usually between June and July.
The Year 7 dates are the Department’s official dates. The June to July window comes from the school’s page, which uses the Department’s standard wording. The school hasn’t published its own dates or test.
| Question | Selective stream | Academic Enrichment Class |
|---|---|---|
| Who chooses | For Year 7, the Department, by the Selective test | Armidale |
| Test | Yes: the Selective test, on a computer in Year 6 | None mentioned. |
| Who can apply | Families living in NSW | The school describes it as an internal program, for students at the school. |
| How to apply | Apply online to the Department | An application to the school. Places depend on the application, results, learning behaviours and teacher feedback. |
| When | 5 November 2026 to 15 February 2027, for Year 7 in 2028 (official) | Last round, for places from Semester 2, 2026 (vacant and waiting-list places), applications closed at 3.10 pm on Friday 5 June 2026. The school says applications open “biannually”. |
The dates for the classes are last round’s; the next round isn’t announced yet.
Source: NSW Department of Education (Year 7; who can apply); Armidale Secondary College’s website and enrolment documents (Years 8 to 11; other classes), read 28 October 2026.
The HSC is the set of exams at the end of Year 12. Each HSC subject is marked out of 100. The school’s yearly report lists the average mark of its Year 12 students in each subject, next to the NSW average. Subjects with fewer than 10 students are not listed. The marks cover every Year 12 student at Armidale, whichever classes they were in.
Source: the school’s 2025 annual report, NSW Department of Education (CC BY 4.0). These results are shown on their own. We don’t rank or compare schools by results.
A Band 6 is the top result in an HSC subject. Here is what the count tells you, and what it doesn’t.
Source: NESA’s HSC merit lists, 2021 to 2025, counted by Bing’s Academy. The counts cover the whole school, not only the selective stream. These counts are shown on their own. We don’t rank or compare schools by results.
Source: the school’s 2025 annual report; NSW Department of Education school data, 2 October 2026 (CC BY 4.0); Google Maps and Transport for NSW.
Its page doesn’t name a test for Years 8 to 11. Ask the school how it chooses students.
30 selective places in Year 7: 15 for boys and 15 for girls. From the Department’s list (read 28 October 2026).
No. Only the selective stream is. The figures on this page cover the whole school.
The Department doesn’t publish one. It changes every year, depending on who applies.
Of the 22 students we taught who sat the Selective test in 2026, 17 received an offer of a selective place (not always at this school). We will never promise a place: the Department marks the exam and the cut-offs move every year. What we can promise is that you will know where your child stands, for Year 7 or for joining later.
