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Alexandria Park Community School: Selective Entry & Places
Alexandria Park Community School is a partially selective co-educational community school in Alexandria, Inner Sydney. It offers 30 Year 7 selective places, entered through the Selective High School Placement Test.
A Kindergarten-to-Year-12 community school in inner Sydney that runs a small selective secondary stream alongside its local intake.
Alexandria Park Community School at a glance
| Type | Partially selective |
|---|---|
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Suburb | Alexandria, Inner Sydney |
| Year 7 places | 30, 2027 entry — per aggregated Department data (AcePath) |
| Entry routes | Year 7 via the Selective High School Placement Test.The core selective intake is Year 7 via the Selective High School Placement Test; later-year vacancies are handled by the school. |
| Boarding | None — day school. |
| Official website | alexparkcs-c.schools.nsw.gov.au |
How entry works
Year 7 entry to Alexandria Park Community School runs through the statewide NSW Selective High School Placement Test, sat in Year 6. There is no separate school exam and no catchment for selective places — you nominate the school among your preferences, and offers are made from a single statewide placement score. The steps and deadlines are in our application walkthrough.
About one applicant in four receives a selective place across the state. A miss says very little about a capable child — with roughly four applicants for every place, the maths alone means most well-prepared children miss out, and are fine.
Later years: The core selective intake is Year 7 via the Selective High School Placement Test; later-year vacancies are handled by the school.
The last-published entry score — read this honestly
The last time the Department published a per-school minimum entry score was for 2021 entry, on the retired 300-point scale. For Alexandria Park Community School that figure was 176/300 (174/300 the year before).
That is a historical record, not a current cut-off. The test and its scoring have changed since — four equally-weighted components, computer-based, no school-assessment mark — the Department no longer publishes per-school minimums, and it states plainly that there is no set entry score. Treat any "current" cut-off you see quoted for Alexandria Park Community School as an estimate, not a fact.
Where these figures come from, why the Department stopped publishing them, and how to sanity-check any number you read: our cut-off scores guide.
Known for
- A Kindergarten-to-Year-12 community school in inner-city Sydney.
- Runs a partially selective secondary stream (test-based Year 7 entry) alongside a local comprehensive intake.
- Also offers an Opportunity Class from Year 5.
Families near Alexandria
Other nearby areas: Redfern, Erskineville, Newtown, Waterloo, Zetland.