A partially selective public high school in Chatswood, on Sydney’s north shore. Its selective stream, for boys and girls in Years 7 to 12, sits 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 open only when a selective student leaves, and some years have none.
What the school says: “A small number of vacancies at Chatswood High School in Years 8 to 11 may become available. This depends on the number of selective students who leave the school.” The school’s website, read 28 October 2026
Year 7 places go through the Department’s Selective test. Places in Years 8 to 11 go through the school’s own application and a test called the Edutest, run by an outside provider.
The Year 7 application and test dates are official. The other dates are typical, based on the 2026 round: the school hasn’t announced its own dates for 2028 entry yet.
| Question | Selective stream | High Potential and Gifted class |
|---|---|---|
| Who chooses | For Year 7, the Department, by the Selective test | Chatswood |
| Test | Yes: the Selective test, on a computer in Year 6 | Yes: every applicant sits an entrance test at the school, from 9.30 am to about 1.30 pm. The school doesn’t say who sets it or what it covers. Families get an individual test report with the result. |
| Who can apply | Families living in NSW | Only families living in the school’s local intake area. The school is full, and enrols only students who live in its intake zone in its local classes; selective places are open to families anywhere in NSW. |
| How to apply | Apply online to the Department | Local families are sent an invitation and an application form. The form goes back with a fee (the amount isn’t published). |
| When | 5 November 2026 to 15 February 2027, for Year 7 in 2028 (official) | Last round, for Year 7 in 2027: applications from 10 August to 2 pm on 7 September 2026, the test on Wednesday 23 September, and results in early November. |
The dates for the classes are last round’s; the next round isn’t announced yet.
Source: NSW Department of Education (Year 7); Chatswood High School’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 Chatswood, 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.
No. It uses the Edutest for Years 8 to 11, for selective places. The Edutest is held on one day shared by six selective schools. We don’t tutor for the Edutest at the moment. For Year 7, children sit the Selective test.
60 selective places: 30 for boys and 30 for girls, from the Department’s list (read 28 October 2026).
No. Only the selective stream is. The school also has classes for local students, and 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. We don’t tutor for the Edutest at the moment.
