A partially selective public high school in Sefton, in Sydney’s west, for boys and girls in Years 7 to 12, with a selective stream alongside a community stream. 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 are decided by a panel in August or September, and often there are none.
What the school says: “The enrolment placement panel meets August / September, and selective positions are offered on the basis of established criteria and vacancies. Frequently there are no vacancies in which case no offers can be made.” The school’s website, read 28 October 2026
Year 7 places go through the Department’s Selective test. Selective places in Years 8 to 11 go through the school and a placement panel, with no test.
The Year 7 dates are the Department’s official dates. June to July is the Department’s usual window for Years 8 to 11; Sefton hasn’t published its own dates. The school says its placement panel meets in August or September.
Source: NSW Department of Education (Year 7; who can apply); Sefton 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 Sefton, 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. For Years 8 to 11 there is no test: a placement panel decides, using the Department’s form and a handwritten student statement.
88 selective places in Year 7: 44 for boys and 44 for girls. From the Department’s list (read 28 October 2026).
No. Only the selective stream is. 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 joining later.
