A fully selective public high school for boys at Moore Park, in Sydney’s inner east, 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 Sydney Boys students start in Year 7. Year 9 can take up to 30 new students and Year 11 up to 6. Years 8 and 10 have historically had very few places, if any.
What the school says: “For Year 9, up to 30 places and vacancies, if any, may be offered, subject to applicants satisfying the selection criteria. For Year 11, up to 6 places and vacancies, if any, may be offered, subject to applicants satisfying the selection criteria.” 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 placement tests.
The Year 7 dates are the Department’s official dates. The mid-June opening is announced by the school. The school sets its test and interview dates.
Inside Sydney 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.
Formed each year from incoming boys with the highest Selective test scores. There’s no separate test.
Music Proficiency classFormed if 30 boys hold formal music qualifications, usually AMEB. The top 20 are offered acceleration to finish HSC Music by Year 11.
Two classes, about 60 boys, re-formed every year by teachers on tests, a portfolio and class work. If more than 60 qualify, the yearly exam rank decides.
Graded mathsClasses graded by results; boys move between them.
One class, chosen on the previous year’s results.
Year 9 boys can apply: a Distinction or better in that subject, the principal’s ranking requirement, an individual learning plan and head teacher approval. Subjects that may run for 2027: Business Studies, Geography, Modern History, Music 2, Health and Movement Science, and Chinese or Japanese Continuers. The information meeting was at 6 pm on Monday 7 September 2026.
Up to 80 boys in four classes, graded on Year 10 exams.
The HSC.
Source: NSW Department of Education (Year 7; who can apply); Sydney 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 entry: shortlisted applicants sit the school’s literacy and numeracy placement tests (plus science for Year 11), then interviews.
150, all for boys, from the Department’s list (read 28 October 2026).
Yes. All 1,202 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.
