Celebrating our best ever HSC results

St Andrew’s Cathedral School is thrilled to announce our 2025 HSC results.

We’re delighted to announce that our 2025 HSC cohort – one of our largest cohorts ever, with 124 students – achieved the best results in the School’s history, a fabulously fitting ending to our 140^th year.  

The outstanding headlines for this set of students are below.  

Dux of HSC 

Veer Karan Anu Villa Susheel Kumar is the HSC Dux, achieving an ATAR of 99.7, band 6s across all of his subjects, including a final mark of 99 in Mathematics Extension 1, 96 in Mathematics Extension 2 and 96 in Physics.  

NSW Premier’s List all-rounders: (Those with 10 or more units of Band 6) 

• Veer Karan Anu Villa Susheel Kumar  
• Ruby Burton 
• Mia Lloyd Jones 
• Name withheld 

Top all-rounders: (Those with nine or more units of Band 6) 

• Abigail Clark 
• Alannah Carey 
• Maxwell Sharp 
• Ruby Daley 

Top achievers: (Top 10 in the State for an individual subject) 

• Maxwell Sharp – Modern History 
• Arabella Simpson – Engineering  
• Sofia Stevens – Spanish Continuers 

Top Achievers: (99 or 100% in a course) 

• Alannah Carey – English Extension 1 
• Name withheld – Mathematics Extension 1 
• Veer Karan Anu Villa Susheel Kumar – Mathematics Extension 1 
• Joshua Chin – Music Extension 
• Amali Cooray – Music Extension  
• Ryan Sim – Music Extension 

Showcase nominations: 

Drama, Music and Visual Arts and the Design and Industrial Arts attained 35 showcase nominations and three selections.  

Outstanding individual marks HSC (mark of 97+ or 47+ in subjects marked out of 50)  

• William Bootes – Music 2   
• Alannah Carey – History Extension   
• Alannah Carey – English Extension 2   
• Ilia Cambell – Music Extension   
• Joshua Chin – Music 2   
• Natasha Chun – Music 2   
• Abigail Clark – English Extension 1   
• Apolonia Bernard – Polish Continuers   
• Ruby Daley – Visual Arts  
• Alice Eager – Visual Arts  
• Joe Foster – Industrial Technology  
• Name Withheld – Mathematics Extension 2 
• Maxwell Sharp – Modern History 
• Arabella Simpson – Engineering  
• Name withheld – English Extension 1 

Students with ATARs above 90 

• All subjects achieved significantly above State average 
• 55% of the cohort achieved one or more Band 6s 

Congratulations HSC 2025 graduates!  

We are so proud of you. You not only achieved an excellent set of qualifications, you also grew in courage, expertise and wisdom. Behind each set of results are stories of persistence, ingenuity and sheer grit.

These results are testament to our Director of Learning (Senior College) Mrs Eleni Tatsis, who superbly leads and supports our team of expert and caring teachers.  Also Deputy Head of School (Secondary) Mr Brad Swibel, Deputy Head of School (Quality Teaching) Dr Kirsten Macaulay, Head of Senior College, Mr David Lindsay, Deputy Head of Senior College, Mrs Sonia Witheridge and Heads of Department, Heads of House, counsellors, tutors, learning coaches and support and administration staff. We all know that this is a huge team effort that has taken place over many years. Not forgetting the parents and caregivers of these students who walked every step of the journey too – they couldn’t have done it without you.