A fully selective public high school for boys in Normanhurst, in Sydney’s north, for 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 Normanhurst Boys students start in Year 7. Years 8 and 10 usually have no more than five places each, and Years 9 and 11 usually have 10 to 15.
What the school says: “The number of places offered in each of Years 8-10 usually does not exceed five. However, there are usually 10 to 15 places available for entry into Year 9 and into Year 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 its own literacy and numeracy test.
The Year 7 dates are the Department’s official dates. The other dates show last round’s timing. The school hasn’t announced its 2028 dates yet.
Inside Normanhurst Boys · 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.
A small number of invited students take the Year 11 course in Year 9 and finish the HSC course in Year 10.
For students identified as gifted in science.
For students who finished Compacted Science.
The HSC.
Maths enrichment and acceleration is for the whole year group; extra acceleration only in exceptional cases.
Source: NSW Department of Education (Year 7; who can apply); Normanhurst Boys 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.
No. It runs its own literacy and numeracy test at the school, then a selection committee decides, sometimes after an interview.
120, all for boys, from the Department’s list (read 28 October 2026).
Yes. All 752 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.
