A more useful Educational League Table?
By: John Collier
Posted 07 April 2008
Each December, the Sydney media publish a Higher School Certificate (HSC) league table of schools. This is based only on partial information, representing what the newspapers can obtain through a freedom of information request from the Board of Studies. The league table says nothing about how many students are in each school, but simply presents the number of individual scores above 90% in individual subjects. The table does not say whether the courses undertaken were easy or more difficult. Following below is a more comprehensive league table from St Paul’s Grammar School.
- Over 70% of Year 12, 2007 at St Paul’s, obtained their first choice course at their first choice university.
- Combining HSC Band 6 and comparable International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Grade 7 and Grade 6, and ‘As’ in 4000 word IB Extended Essays, St Paul’s had 128 results of distinction.
- Thirty nine University Admissions Index (UAI) scores above 85 were attained from a student group of 125 students.