A partially selective public high school in Macquarie Fields, in Sydney’s south-west. Its selective stream, for boys and girls in Years 7 to 12, sits alongside comprehensive and special education classes; the school says all students share classes in Years 11 and 12. 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. It takes up to 90 students a year. In Years 8 to 11, places go through HAST (the Higher Ability Selection Test, which several selective schools share for places after Year 7; see our HAST guide) when the stream has a vacancy.
What the school says: “The cap is 90 students per year group. If there are vacancies in the Selective Stream in Years 8 – 11, a testing process will be conducting the Higher Ability Selection Test (HAST) model.” 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.
Source: NSW Department of Education (Year 7; who can apply); Macquarie Fields High School’s website, read 28 October 2026 (Years 8 to 11).
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 Macquarie Fields, 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.
Yes, for selective places in Years 8 to 11 when the stream has a vacancy. 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.
90 selective places: 45 for boys and 45 for girls, from the Department’s list (read 28 October 2026).
No. Only the selective stream is. The school also has comprehensive and special education classes, 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 or for HAST.
