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Leppington High: Selective Entry & Places

Leppington High School is a partially selective co-educational high school in Leppington, South-western Sydney. It offers 30 Year 7 selective places, entered through the Selective High School Placement Test.

A new south-west Sydney school joining the selective network from its first Year 7 cohort, co-located with Leppington Public School in a K–12 precinct.

Opens for its first Year 7 cohort in Term 1 2027 — a provisional selective listing. The school is not yet operating and does not have its own website; the link points to the Department's project page.


Leppington High School at a glance

TypePartially selective
GenderCo-educational
SuburbLeppington, South-western Sydney
Year 7 places30, 2027 entry NSW Department of Education selective-schools list
Entry routesYear 7 via the Selective High School Placement Test.The school opens with its first Year 7 cohort; later-year selective entry arrangements are not yet published, as the school is not yet operating.
BoardingNone — day school.
Official websitewww.schoolinfrastructure.nsw.gov.au/news/2023/12/new-high-school-in-leppington.html

How entry works

Year 7 entry to Leppington 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: The school opens with its first Year 7 cohort; later-year selective entry arrangements are not yet published, as the school is not yet operating.


The last-published entry score — read this honestly

The Department has never published a per-school minimum entry score for Leppington High School. A new school that opens after the last published-score year, so it has no historical minimum entry score.

So any "cut-off" quoted for it is an estimate, not an official figure — and under the current test, no official per-school cut-offs exist for any school at all.

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 new public high school for the Leppington / Denham Court growth area (announced December 2023).
  • Included in the NSW selective schools network from its first Year 7 intake, as a partially selective school.
  • Being built on Rickard Road, Leppington, co-located with Leppington Public School to form a K–12 education precinct.

Families near Leppington

Many families sitting for Leppington High come from the surrounding suburbs. We compare the selective coaching options — centre by centre, with published prices — for Oran Park and Liverpool.

Other nearby areas: Denham Court, Austral, Edmondson Park, Catherine Field, Rossmore.


Whichever schools end up on your application, it is one test, sat on a computer. The single advantage every family can control is screen familiarity — hours on the real on-screen format before the day. Our full-length selective practice papers run in a player built to mirror that screen, and the first paper in each subject is free, no card required.