Ranking highly is a huge source of pride for some schools - especially public selective ones, where students who study furiously often relish trouncing their counterparts at expensive private schools. Consistently, in NSW, these rankings are topped by the most competitive public selective schools, as well as some of the most expensive private schools (which are of course, selective in their own way – charging $30,000 a year is a pretty selective barrier to entry).
The problem with how we value schools of course isn’t the fault of these rankings, and our obsession with them doesn’t come from a bad place. NSW schools are ranked according to their ‘success rate’ which is the ratio of Band 6 (or E4) to student entries. I understand the appeal of the exercise - I remember poring over them as a high school kid to compare my school to others in the state. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. She pointed out the obvious limitations in the success rate formula – how it could reflect students doing really well, but it could also signify students taking easier subjects, or fewer subjects, in an attempt to maximise their chances of getting above 90. Wenona School in North Sydney leap up the rankings this year. There are concerns too that school rankings are one small factor feeding into a broader trend in Australian education: the drift away from comprehensive public high schools.
They don’t necessarily show you how good a particular school is at teaching students and improving their educational outcomes.
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“I said all that’s important is the effort you make.”. After Jihad Dib became principal of Punchbowl Boys High in Sydney’s south-west, he was widely celebrated for helping to transform a once-notoriously unruly public school into a source of pride for students and the local community.
The concern is that some parents, who tend to come from more advantaged backgrounds, respond to school rankings by shopping around for a higher ranking school – often a private or a selective one – abandoning their local comprehensive. It can’t always be an easy line to sell when contrary messages are everywhere.
But it’s not only a selective school, but frequently the most selective school in the state. They get to choose. Below are the 2017 high school rankings across NSW based on HSC results. But the focus on rankings, and the emphasis on education as a competitive exercise between schools, contradicts more important messages about striving for excellence – wherever a student might start from – and the broader role of education in becoming a healthy, well-rounded person. The minimum entry test score to get into the school in the first place is usually higher than for any other selective school. • Josephine Tovey is associate news editor at Guardian Australia, Available for everyone, funded by readers.
“[Those schools] become difficult schools to manage, they’re less attractive for staff.”.
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Tony George The School remained in the Top 50 based on the State Rankings (as published by The Sydney Morning Herald). The annual rankings of year 12 results, which are published by major newspapers at this time every year, powerfully shape how students and parents think about schools.
English Department has achieved two state rankings, the first since 2005.
NSW schools are ranked according to their ‘success rate’ which is the ratio of Band 6 (or E4) to student entries. Results lower than a band six – or 90 – don’t count. But there’s no denying it’s a hugely simplistic exercise - and one from which the wrong conclusions are often drawn. But that nuance is naturally often lost – not only on students, but on the wider community. Even small shifts in a school’s rank over time – rising 10 places one year, sliding back another – is often interpreted as a sign of whether the school itself is getting better or worse. “It was just this collapse.”. On behalf of the School community, I would like to wish our Year 12 Kingsmen the very best for their future endeavours and we look forward to hearing about their successes in the coming years. Australia’s education system is riddled with inequality, and attempts to make resourcing more fair are frequently stymied.
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