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Kooringal High: Selective Entry & Places
Kooringal High School is a partially selective co-educational high school in Kooringal, Riverina. It offers 30 Year 7 selective places, entered through the Selective High School Placement Test.
The only partially selective school in the Riverina, with a selective stream established in 2010.
Kooringal High School at a glance
| Type | Partially selective |
|---|---|
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Suburb | Kooringal, Riverina |
| Year 7 places | 30, 2027 entry — NSW Department of Education selective-schools list |
| Entry routes | Year 7 via the Selective High School Placement Test.Applications are made in Year 5 to sit the placement test for Year 7 entry. Where there are more successful candidates than places, a waiting list is created and activated as places open in later years. |
| Boarding | None — day school. |
| Official website | kooringal-h.schools.nsw.gov.au |
How entry works
Year 7 entry to Kooringal 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: Applications are made in Year 5 to sit the placement test for Year 7 entry. Where there are more successful candidates than places, a waiting list is created and activated as places open in later years.
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 Kooringal High School that figure was 160/300 (161/300 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 Kooringal 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
- The only partially selective public high school in the Riverina region.
- Opened in 1973; the academically selective stream was established in 2010.
- Offers combined academic, sporting, creative and vocational pathways across its selective and comprehensive streams.
Families near Kooringal
Other nearby areas: Wagga Wagga, Turvey Park, Lake Albert, Tolland.