World's Top Schools, Ranked.

Australia · Victoria

Sends every Year 9 to a remote alpine campus, then blends IB and VCE with the wellbeing model it pioneered.

Australia · Queensland

Overlooking Brisbane's CBD since 1868, a boys' school built on its Latin motto: nothing without hard work.

Australia · Western Australia

Freshwater Bay frontage anchors an Anglican boys' school where rowing tradition and strong ATAR results define the culture

Australia · New South Wales

On a North Sydney hilltop above the harbour, a founding GPS school since 1889 built on boarding houses, rowing and Anglican tradition

Australia · Western Australia

Founded in 1911 as WA's first government high school, this Subiaco campus admits students solely through a competitive entrance exam.

Australia · New South Wales

A Jesuit boys' school on the Lane Cove River, where the boatshed sits on campus and rowing has raced since 1882

Australia · Queensland

Founded in 1875, six years before women could enter Australian universities, and still topping Queensland's academic ladder from Spring Hill.

Australia · New South Wales

In the shadow of the Harbour Bridge, this Jesuit boys' day school pairs Ignatian tradition with a top-15 HSC record.

Australia · New South Wales

On Sydney's Upper North Shore, a century-old boys' school blends HSC rigor with IB breadth across three boarding houses and a 90-strong music program

Australia · New South Wales

On Sydney's upper North Shore, an Anglican day-and-boarding school pairing Year 9 seniors-only boarding with 50 years of coeducation.

Australia · New South Wales

On Sydney's Upper North Shore, the only school pairing HSC and IB choice with a first-in-NSW approach to Positive Education.

Australia · Victoria

First school worldwide to put laptops in every student's hands in 1990, now pairing deep VCE-IB choice with an eight-week Marshmead wilderness term.

Australia · Victoria

Keysborough's parallel classrooms separate boys and girls, yet its students once launched an experiment to the ISS.

Australia · New South Wales

Australia's oldest independent school, where an 1831 foundation still marches in the country's oldest surviving military uniform and cadet corps.

Australia · Victoria

Runs the full IB continuum alongside VCE across three Melbourne campuses, reaching all the way to a studio school in the Kimberley outback.

Australia · South Australia

Founded in 1847 alongside the colony itself, its heritage quadrangles and Finniss outdoor campus anchor an Anglican boarding tradition on the Adelaide Parklands.

Australia · Victoria

Founded by an Anglican parish vestry in 1902, this Kew school pairs single-sex schooling with Ruyton Girls' School co-ed classes.

Australia · New South Wales

Since 1888, this non-selective Croydon campus has grown from a department-store heir's mansion into a Round Square day and boarding school for girls.

Australia · New South Wales

Sydney's first IB Continuum School, pairing Bellevue Hill harbour views with a Blue Mountains bush campus for experiential learning.

Australia · NSW

In Burwood since 1886, founded to ready girls for University of Sydney entrance just as women won degree rights.

Australia · Queensland

On Norman Creek in East Brisbane, this century-old GPS boys' school pairs IB Diploma rigor with Queensland's QCE pathway.

Australia · Victoria

Victoria's only academically selective boys' school, its hilltop South Yarra campus earning the nickname Castle on the Hill.

Australia · New South Wales

Gothic Revival GPS founder in Sydney's inner west, home to Australia's first schoolboy rugby match, now turning fully co-educational by 2033.

Australia · New South Wales

Australia's first state high school, and still the only government member of the elite GPS sporting competition, steps from the Moore Park precinct.

Australia · New South Wales

NSW's oldest state girls' school, built in 1916 on the old Moore Park zoo site, still selective-entry and HSC-strong.

Australia · New South Wales

Where selective-school rigor meets compulsory farm science, on a five-hectare campus in Sydney's north-west.

Australia · Victoria

On Barkers Road since 1878, Jesuit formation and Ignatian pedagogy anchor a VCE program above Studley Park.

Australia · Victoria

A century-old Baptist foundation in Kew runs VCE and IB in parallel, anchored by a campus Centre for Learning and Innovation with its own UN Room.

Australia · Victoria

Selective by exam, housed in a 1934 heritage-listed landmark by Albert Park Lake, with a VCE record built over decades.

Australia · New South Wales

The selective boys' school on the Lower North Shore that ended James Ruse's 27-year grip on the HSC top spot

Australia · Victoria

Where Melbourne classrooms, a Yarra Junction farm, and a Nanjing campus shape an IB-VCE education built on outdoor and overseas immersion.

Australia · New South Wales

Sydney's storied girls' boarding school, pairing the Dalton Plan with a rigorous HSC pathway.

Australia · Western Australia

Beside the Swan River since 1896, a heritage boarding school that has produced more Rhodes Scholars than any other in WA.

Australia · Victoria

A Year 9 campus embedded at La Trobe University anchors a Round Square network across Melbourne's north, offering both VCE and IB pathways.

Australia · South Australia

A Duke laid its 1867 foundation stone; today this Adelaide college ships Year 9 boys to riverside and peninsula campuses for a term outdoors.

Australia · Victoria

A bayside Anglican day school where APS sporting pedigree meets a purpose-built 'Positive Masculinity' curriculum for boys.

Australia · New South Wales

On Sydney's Upper North Shore, a fully selective girls' school pairs top-ten HSC results with a Positive Education approach to resilience.

Australia · New South Wales

A fully selective North Shore powerhouse where rigorous HSC results run alongside a music program that tours internationally.

Australia · Victoria

Since 1875, one of Australia's earliest girls' schools, now running VCE alongside an IB Diploma pathway from its Burwood campus.

Australia · New South Wales

On Sydney's Upper North Shore, a non-selective campus of five schools lets girls choose between the IB and HSC pathways.

Australia · New South Wales

Harbourside campus in Rose Bay blends a co-ed junior school with girls-only senior years, rooted in Sacred Heart tradition since 1882.

Australia · Victoria

Founded in 1964 as the national training ground for The Australian Ballet, pairing VCE study with daily classical technique in Southbank.

Australia · South Australia

Forged in 1974 from two century-old rivals, this eastern-suburbs campus became South Australia's first IB World School in 1989.

Australia · New South Wales

On the Tivoli headland above Sydney Harbour, a non-selective girls' school topped the state for pairing IB and HSC results in 2024.

Australia · Victoria

On Toorak's Gardiners Creek, this Christian Brothers day school still trains the choristers of St Patrick's Cathedral.

Australia · Queensland

On the Brisbane River at Toowong, GPS rowing's most decorated program pairs with a pipe band that has played Edinburgh's Tattoo.

Australia · Queensland

Founded in 1891 as Queensland's first purpose-built Catholic boarding college, its Boondall campus still spans working farmland and wetlands.

Australia · New South Wales

In Sydney's Inner West, this Anglican boys' school has let Year 11s choose between the HSC and the IB Diploma since 1998.

Australia · New South Wales

Sandstone towers above Sydney Harbour house Australia's largest all-boys boarding community, blending city and country since 1881.

Australia · Western Australia

Since 1858, Western Australia's oldest independent boys' school blends a 48-hectare coastal campus with a top-five WA ATAR record.

Australia · Western Australia

Since 1896 on the Swan River, pairing an ESSTEAM entrepreneurship curriculum with a Year 9 Wandering Spirit resilience program.

Australia · New South Wales

Presbyterian boys' school since 1893, blending IB and HSC study with a Kangaroo Valley outdoor campus and five heritage boarding houses.

Australia · Queensland

Founded in 1875 by three Irish Christian Brothers, this Spring Hill day school remains a founding pillar of Queensland's GPS competition.

Australia · New South Wales

On Sydney Harbour since 1908, its chapel tower once guided sailors--now it anchors a top-performing Catholic girls' school.

Australia · Victoria

A Canterbury boys' day school since 1886, where VCE cohorts favour the hardest-scaling subjects and still post median ATARs above 90.

Australia · Queensland

Beside the Nerang River, the Gold Coast's only boys' school pairs a storied rowing boatshed with Queensland's largest boarding house.

Australia · Queensland

Pointe work and QCE credits share a timetable, as Kelvin Grove State College classrooms feed straight into Queensland Ballet's own studios

Australia · Western Australia

Tartan ties and a pipe band keep Scottish roots alive on a Swan River campus schooling boys from Pre-Kindergarten to Year 12.

Australia · South Australia

A Round Square campus minutes from Brighton beach, pairing global exchange ethos with Adelaide's southern coast

Australia · New South Wales

A fully selective, co-educational powerhouse in the Hills District that has ranked among NSW's top ten HSC schools for over a decade.

Australia · New South Wales

A non-selective Eastern Suburbs day school whose HSC results have twice outranked selective powerhouse Sydney Grammar.

Australia · New South Wales

On Sydney's upper north shore, a selective cohort climbed to the state's HSC top five, backed by a pioneering robotics team.

Australia · New South Wales

Australia's first dedicated sports high school, pairing HSC study with pathways to NRL squads and Olympic teams in western Sydney.

Australia · Queensland

Brisbane's first vertical high school, embedded in QUT's creative industries precinct for selective-entry artists and designers.

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Australia · Queensland

Brisbane's only Marist day-and-boarding school for boys, where rugby pedigree and faith-led character rise beneath the landmark Tower Block.

Australia · Queensland

Queensland's oldest grammar school, its Gothic Revival Great Hall still anchoring lessons atop Grammar School Hill.

Australia · Victoria

Where VCE study and elite training share a timetable, inside Victoria's only state-funded sports school program.

Australia · New South Wales

Where ballet barres and tennis courts share the timetable with the HSC, in the only K-12 day school of its kind in Australia.

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