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Baulkham Hills High: Selective Entry & Places
Baulkham Hills High School is a fully academically selective co-educational high school in Baulkham Hills, Hills District. It offers 180 Year 7 selective places (90 boys, 90 girls), entered through the Selective High School Placement Test.
Founded in 1971 on a former orange orchard — the reason an orange still sits on the school crest — it runs one of the larger selective cohorts in the state.
Baulkham Hills High School at a glance
| Type | Fully selective |
|---|---|
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Suburb | Baulkham Hills, Hills District |
| Year 7 places | 180 (90 boys, 90 girls), 2027 entry — NSW Department of Education selective-schools list |
| Entry routes | Year 7 via the Selective High School Placement Test.Places for Years 8–11 are filled when vacancies arise, through the Department's statewide Selective High School Years 8 to 11 application process — not a school-run test. |
| Boarding | None — day school. |
| Official website | baulkham-h.schools.nsw.gov.au |
How entry works
Year 7 entry to Baulkham Hills High 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: Places for Years 8–11 are filled when vacancies arise, through the Department's statewide Selective High School Years 8 to 11 application process — not a school-run test.
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 Baulkham Hills High School that figure was 233/300 (234/300 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 Baulkham Hills High 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 government-funded, fully academically selective, co-educational secondary school for Years 7 to 12. source
- Opened in 1974 on a former orange orchard; the crest features an orange in acknowledgement of that agricultural heritage. School motto: "Persevere". source
- One of the larger selective streams in NSW, with an enrolment of around 1,223 students (2025). source
Families near Baulkham Hills
Many families sitting for Baulkham Hills High come from the surrounding suburbs. We compare the selective coaching options — centre by centre, with published prices — for Baulkham Hills, Castle Hill, Bella Vista, Carlingford and Parramatta.
Other nearby areas: Winston Hills, Kellyville, Northmead, Norwest.