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NSW selective school profiles: every school A–Z

By Yaniv Bernstein · Verified July 2026

A profile for each of the 49 NSW selective schools — where it is, who it takes, how many Year 7 places it offers, and the last minimum entry score the Department actually published. One honest note up front: there is no official current cut-off for any of these schools, and no official ranking — so we give you the verified facts and leave the league tables to the coaching ads.

Looking for the plain Department list with places by school? That lives in our complete selective schools list. This page is the profile index — pick a school for the full picture.

Fully selective high schools · 17

Every student enters through the Selective High School Placement Test.

Partially selective high schools · 27

A selective stream sits inside an otherwise local-enrolment school — the same test, one or two selective classes per year.

Agricultural high schools · 4

Fully selective, with an agricultural curriculum and — uniquely — boarding places at three of the four.

Virtual selective school · 1

Selective classes delivered online to gifted students in rural and remote NSW.

Every one of these schools admits Year 7 students from the same single test, sat on a computer. Our full-length selective practice papers run in a player built to mirror that screen — the first paper in each subject is free, no card required.

Cut-off scores, explainedThe whole test, start to finish