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Yanco Agricultural High: Selective Entry & Places
Yanco Agricultural High School is a fully academically selective co-educational agricultural high school in Yanco, Riverina. It offers 60 Year 7 selective places (30 boys, 30 girls), entered through the Selective High School Placement Test.
A Riverina agricultural selective school where every student boards; entry is assessed by the school itself, with some priority for rural and remote students.
Boarding only; entry runs partly through the school's own process alongside the placement test.
Yanco Agricultural High School at a glance
| Type | Fully selective · agricultural |
|---|---|
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Suburb | Yanco, Riverina |
| Year 7 places | 60 (30 boys, 30 girls), 2027 entry — per aggregated Department data (AcePath) |
| Entry routes | Year 7 via the Selective High School Placement Test.Year 7 applications are made directly to the school (report cards, NAPLAN results and an interview) rather than solely via the placement test; later-year boarding vacancies are also handled by the school. |
| Boarding | Boarding only — every student from Year 7 to Year 12 is a weekly or full-time boarder. Isolated (rural and remote) students are given some priority for boarding places. |
| Official website | yancoag-h.schools.nsw.gov.au |
How entry works
Year 7 entry to Yanco 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: Year 7 applications are made directly to the school (report cards, NAPLAN results and an interview) rather than solely via the placement test; later-year boarding vacancies are also handled by the school.
The last-published entry score — read this honestly
The Department has never published a per-school minimum entry score for Yanco Agricultural High School. A boarding agricultural school, Yanco was not present in the CESE minimum-entry-score tables — there is no last-published figure to report.
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 fully academically selective co-educational agricultural high school (Years 7–12) in the Riverina, with boarders only and no day students.
- Every student from Year 7 to Year 12 boards; isolated students are given some priority for boarding places.
- Set on a farm campus at Yanco, near Leeton.
Families near Yanco
Other nearby areas: Leeton, Narrandera, Griffith, Wagga Wagga.