A fully selective public agricultural high school in Yanco, in the Riverina, for boys and girls in Years 7 to 12. Every student boards at the school. 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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Yanco takes boarders only. Families apply directly to the school, with no Selective test. Later places go by application and interview, and the number varies each year.
What the school says: “The number of vacancies varies from year to year for the different year groups.” The school’s website, read 28 October 2026
Yanco takes boarders only. Year 7 and later places go through the school directly, by application and interview.
Yanco publishes its interview timing, not exact dates. Ask the school.
Source: NSW Department of Education (Year 7 places; who can apply); Yanco Agricultural High School’s website, 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.
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. Yanco takes students by application and interview, and doesn’t use the Selective test either.
60 boarding places: 30 for boys and 30 for girls, from the Department’s list (read 28 October 2026).
Yes. Yanco is fully residential: every student boards at the school.
Yes. In 2025 it had 159 boys and 160 girls.
There’s no test mark: Yanco chooses students by application and interview.
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.
