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Hornsby Girls High: Selective Entry & Places
Hornsby Girls High School is a fully academically selective girls high school in Hornsby, Upper North Shore. It offers 120 Year 7 selective places, entered through the Selective High School Placement Test.
A girls-only selective school on the Upper North Shore, founded in 1930, with a large co-curricular music program.
Hornsby Girls High School at a glance
| Type | Fully selective |
|---|---|
| Gender | Girls |
| Suburb | Hornsby, Upper North Shore |
| Year 7 places | 120, 2027 entry — per aggregated Department data (AcePath) |
| Entry routes | Year 7 via the Selective High School Placement Test.Later-year (Years 8–12) vacancies, when available, are filled through the school's own application and assessment process. |
| Boarding | None — day school. |
| Official website | hornsbygir-h.schools.nsw.gov.au |
How entry works
Year 7 entry to Hornsby Girls 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 her 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: Later-year (Years 8–12) vacancies, when available, are filled through the school's own application and assessment process.
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 Hornsby Girls High School that figure was 221/300 (222/300 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 Hornsby Girls 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.
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Families near Hornsby
Many families sitting for Hornsby Girls High come from the surrounding suburbs. We compare the selective coaching options — centre by centre, with published prices — for Hornsby, Epping and Carlingford.
Other nearby areas: Wahroonga, Pennant Hills, Thornleigh, Beecroft, Waitara.