A fully selective public high school in Girraween, in Sydney’s west, for boys and girls in Years 7 to 12. 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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Most Girraween students start in Year 7. In Years 8, 9 and 11, a place opens up when a student leaves. In Year 10, the school adds an extra class.
What the school says: “In Year 10, an extra class is created. This allows us to create smaller class sizes in Year 10, and also allows the enrolment of a greater number of new students than Years 8, 9 and 11.” 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 HAST (the Higher Ability Selection Test), a test several selective schools share (our HAST guide).
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.
Inside Girraween · once your child is in
Every student here already has a selective place. These are the classes and courses the school chooses students for once they’re in, and any that every student takes.
All of Years 9 and 10 science in one year, then Year 11 Biology or Chemistry in Year 10 and its HSC in Year 11. Head teachers invite students on school reports, outside exam and competition results, and wellbeing records. Up to 30, then about 15 in each course.
In place of a Year 9 and 10 elective, chosen on results and aptitude, in classes of up to 24. The school’s booklet and website name different subjects, so ask which run.
The HSC.
Only one subject can be accelerated. A student for whom it isn’t working goes back to the usual course and can take the subject in Year 11.
Source: NSW Department of Education (Year 7); Girraween 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. Selective schools choose their students by test, so their averages usually sit above the NSW average: the useful part is which subjects are strongest.
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.
Yes, for Years 8 to 11, with a portfolio of school achievements. HAST is the Higher Ability Selection Test. The schools that use it hold it on one shared day in August, and your child sits it once. For Year 7, children sit the Selective test instead.
120: 60 for boys and 60 for girls, from the Department’s list (read 28 October 2026).
Yes. In 2025 it had 449 boys and 333 girls.
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 HAST.
