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Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay: Senior Campus

Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Bay Campus is a partially selective co-educational senior campus in Glebe, Inner West. It has no Year 7 selective entry of its own — its selective students arrive from the college's junior campuses (see below).

The Years 11–12 senior campus of Sydney Secondary College: it has no Year 7 selective entry of its own — its selective students arrive from the Balmain and Leichhardt junior campuses.

No Year 7 selective entry: this is the senior campus. The college's selective Year 7 intake runs through the Balmain and Leichhardt junior campuses.


Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Bay Campus at a glance

TypePartially selective
GenderCo-educational
SuburbGlebe, Inner West
Year 7 placesNot separately published
Entry routesNo Year 7 selective entry (senior campus).Entry is at Year 11 (senior campus only). The selective cohort arrives from the Balmain and Leichhardt junior campuses after Year 10; there is no Year 7 selective test entry to this campus.
BoardingNone — day school.
Official websitesscbwattle-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

How entry works

Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Bay is a senior campus, so there is no Year 7 selective test entry here. Entry is at Year 11 (senior campus only). The selective cohort arrives from the Balmain and Leichhardt junior campuses after Year 10; there is no Year 7 selective test entry to this campus. If you are preparing a Year 6 child for the selective test, the relevant entry points are the college's junior campuses — see the cross-links below — and the process is covered in our NSW Selective Test guide.


The last-published entry score — read this honestly

The Department has never published a per-school minimum entry score for Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Bay Campus. A senior (Years 11–12) campus with no Year 7 selective intake, so it was never listed in the minimum-entry-score tables.

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

  • The senior campus (Years 11–12) of Sydney Secondary College, where students from the Balmain and Leichhardt junior campuses come together.
  • Originally opened as Glebe High School in 1979; became the college's senior campus in 2005.
  • Offers one of the largest ranges of HSC courses in Sydney — more than 65 academic and VET courses — with a waterfront location supporting rowing and kayaking.

Families near Glebe

Other nearby areas: Glebe, Ultimo, Pyrmont, Forest Lodge, Annandale.


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