A fully selective public agricultural high school for boys in Calala, Tamworth, for Years 7 to 12. Day places go through the Selective test; boarding places are chosen by the school. Fully selective means every student was chosen for a selective place. 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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Day places in Year 7 go through the Selective test. Boarding places are applied for directly to Farrer, with the school’s own academic assessment instead of the Selective test. After that, families can apply at any time.
What the school says: “Applications for enrolment in years 8-12, as either a Day or Boarding Student, can be made at any time.” The school’s website, read 28 October 2026
Year 7 day places go through the Department’s Selective test; boarding places and Years 8 to 12 go through Farrer directly, at any time.
Boarding dates are from Farrer’s page for 2028 entry. Day-place dates are the Department’s official dates.
Source: NSW Department of Education (Year 7 places); Farrer’s website, farrer.nsw.edu.au, 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.
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. 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. Farrer takes applications for Years 8 to 12 at any time, through its enrolment enquiry form.
110, all for boys: 50 day places and 60 boarding places, from the Department’s list (read 28 October 2026).
No. Boarding applicants apply directly to Farrer, have an academic assessment and may be interviewed from December.
Yes. All 606 students in 2025 were boys.
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.
