{"id":45,"date":"2021-12-02T10:04:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T23:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sacs.nsw.edu.au\/junior\/about-us\/our-facilities\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:45:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:45:39","slug":"our-results","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sacs.nsw.edu.au\/senior\/about-us\/our-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding results"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Congratulations Class of 2025<\/em><\/h2>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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14%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Achieved an ATAR of 97 or higher
(Top 3% of ATARs available in NSW)<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Students achieved an ATAR of 95 or higher
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Students achieved an ATAR of 90 or higher
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In our 2025 edition of Academic Excellence, we introduce you to a broad range of 2025 Year 12 students, examples of how the cohort as a whole showed determination to excel in a broad range of different subjects, projects and arts.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2025, in our cohort of 52 IB Diploma Programme students:<\/em><\/h2>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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65%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IBDP scores that were 6’s and 7’s<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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71%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Achieved an ATAR
over 90<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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99.17<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Average ATAR for the
top 10% of students<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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37.5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Median IBDP score<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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In 2025, in our cohort of 124 HSC students<\/em> we achieved the best results in our history:<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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HSC scores that were 5s and 6’s (top two performance bands)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

70%<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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The average ATAR for the top
10% of students was<\/p>\n\n\n\n

97.8<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Median HSC ATAR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

84<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Subjects with 100% of students in the top two performance bands:
Music Extension, Music 1, Music 2, Korean Continuers, Polish Continuers, Chinese Continuers, Chinese Extension, German Extension, French Continuers, German Continuers, Italian Beginners, Italian Continuers, Spanish Extension, Italian Extension, English Extension 1, Science Extension<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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In 2025, 42 per cent of the graduating cohort across HSC and IBDP achieved an ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank) over 90 (that is, in the top 10 per cent in NSW). Our students across both credentials have managed to achieve at very high levels in a large variety of subjects, which points to the excellence of our passionate and dedicated teaching staff, who go to extraordinary lengths to ensure students have every opportunity to excel and reach their potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also in 2025, our Year 12 HSC cohort broke St Andrew\u2019s Cathedral School\u2019s record for the number of students to be nominated for HSC Showcases! Thirty-five<\/strong> of our students\u2019 major projects have been recognised by the NSW Education Standards Authority, with three <\/strong>of those selected for inclusion in the Showcases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s nominations were for a diverse range of work across the arts. Nominations include seven for SHAPE (Design and Technology and Industrial Technology), three for ARTEXPRESS (Visual Arts), ten for ENCORE (Music) and thirteen for OnSTAGE (Drama Group and Individual).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discover more about St Andrew’s 2025 HSC<\/a> and IBDP<\/a> outstanding results in our News posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read about our 2025 Spotlight students here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IB Diploma Programme <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The School introduced the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) for Senior College students in 2009 and the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IB MYP) to Year 7 students in 2016. Since 2016, all Year 7-10 students undertake the MYP. In 2025, the average ATAR of the top 10 per cent of our IB Diploma students was 99.17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Higher School Certificate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Each year, around 60-70 per cent of our Year 11 students choose to study the NSW Higher School Certificate as their graduate credential in Year 12. Our students are fortunate to have a large breadth of subject choices offered when undertaking the HSC. The 2025 Year 12 HSC cohort performed the best in our history: the average ATAR for the top 10 per cent of HSC students was 97.8 and 70 per cent of HSC scores were 5s and 6s (top two performance bands).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reporting <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

St Andrew\u2019s Cathedral School has three formal methods of reporting on student progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n