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Richmond Agricultural College: Selective Entry & Places
Richmond Agricultural College is a partially selective co-educational agricultural college in Richmond, Hawkesbury. Its Year 7 selective place count is not separately published; entry is through the Selective High School Placement Test.
Listed by the Department as Richmond Agricultural College, it runs an "AgSTEM" selective stream in partnership with a Centre of Excellence at the Western Sydney University Hawkesbury campus; selective-stream students must study agriculture.
Officially listed as "Richmond Agricultural College". Day placements only — no residential or distance-education enrolments. The Year 7 selective place count is not separately published.
Richmond Agricultural College at a glance
| Type | Partially selective · agricultural |
|---|---|
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Suburb | Richmond, Hawkesbury |
| Year 7 places | Not separately published |
| Entry routes | Year 7 via the Selective High School Placement Test.The college accepts applications for Years 8–10 selective-stream entry (the 2027 round was advertised opening 17 June 2026, closing 24 July 2026). |
| Boarding | None — day school. |
| Official website | richmondagcollege-h.schools.nsw.gov.au |
How entry works
Year 7 entry to Richmond Agricultural College 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 college accepts applications for Years 8–10 selective-stream entry (the 2027 round was advertised opening 17 June 2026, closing 24 July 2026).
The last-published entry score — read this honestly
The Department has never published a per-school minimum entry score for Richmond Agricultural College. Richmond became partially selective in 2022 — after the last published-score year (2021) — so it has no historical minimum entry score on the old scale.
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
- Selective-stream students must study agriculture (NSW DoE selective-schools directory).
- AgSTEM programs are delivered through a Centre of Excellence in Agricultural Education, co-located at the Western Sydney University Hawkesbury campus.
- A dual-campus model pairing Richmond High School with the agricultural Centre of Excellence, offering both an AgSTEM Selective stream and an AgSTEM Specialty stream.
Families near Richmond
Many families sitting for Richmond Agricultural College come from the surrounding suburbs. We compare the selective coaching options — centre by centre, with published prices — for Penrith.
Other nearby areas: Windsor, North Richmond, Clarendon, Hobartville, Agnes Banks.