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Hurlstone Agricultural High: Selective Entry & Places
Hurlstone Agricultural High School is a fully academically selective co-educational agricultural high school in Glenfield, Macarthur. It offers 180 Year 7 selective places, entered through the Selective High School Placement Test.
The state's oldest agricultural high school (1907) and the only co-educational selective boarding school in NSW, on a working farm at Glenfield.
Hurlstone Agricultural High School at a glance
| Type | Fully selective · agricultural |
|---|---|
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Suburb | Glenfield, Macarthur |
| Year 7 places | 180, 2027 entry — per aggregated Department data (AcePath) |
| Entry routes | Year 7 via the Selective High School Placement Test.Later-year vacancies (Years 8–11) are filled by direct application to the school when places are available. |
| Boarding | Offers both day and boarding places — the only co-educational selective boarding high school in NSW. |
| Official website | hurlstone-h.schools.nsw.gov.au |
How entry works
Year 7 entry to Hurlstone Agricultural 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: Later-year vacancies (Years 8–11) are filled by direct application to the school when places are available.
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 Hurlstone Agricultural High School that figure was 202/300 (200/300 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 Hurlstone Agricultural 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 fully academically selective co-educational agricultural high school (Years 7–12), established in 1907 as the state's oldest agricultural high school.
- The only selective co-educational boarding high school in NSW, offering both day and boarding places.
- Set on a working farm campus of over 100 hectares at Glenfield in the Macarthur region.
Families near Glenfield
Many families sitting for Hurlstone Agricultural High come from the surrounding suburbs. We compare the selective coaching options — centre by centre, with published prices — for Liverpool.
Other nearby areas: Macquarie Fields, Ingleburn, Casula, Minto, Campbelltown.