top 250 schools 2012 (1 Viewer)

[Chimelle]

does anyone know when the hsc school ranking comes out?

 

[someth1ng]

Very soon after HSC results are released.

 

[Trebla]

The day that the ATAR is released.

 

[theind1996]

I think they can only release top 100 (due to legal issues with publishing more than that?).

 

[D94]

There has never been an official/authoritative list of school rankings.

Unless the Principal has permitted such a ranking, it's illegal to publicly publish a set of school rankings.

 

[Trebla]

There has never been an official/authoritative list of school rankings.

Unless the Principal has permitted such a ranking, it's illegal to publicly publish a set of school rankings.

Not sure if this is true, but even if it was it hasn't stopped the SMH and Daily Telegraph.

 

[Absolutezero]

I think they can only release top 100 (due to legal issues with publishing more than that?).

There has never been an official/authoritative list of school rankings.

Unless the Principal has permitted such a ranking, it's illegal to publicly publish a set of school rankings.

Not sure if this is true, but even if it was it hasn't stopped the SMH and Daily Telegraph.

http://community.boredofstudies.org/showthread.php?t=213391

 

[D94]

Not sure if this is true, but even if it was it hasn't stopped the SMH and Daily Telegraph.

It's up for interpretation: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ea1990104/s18a.html (EDIT: yes, just saw Absolutezero's post)

But my first point still stands. There has never been an official list of school rankings; basing school rankings off Band 6's is meaningless. It doesn't differentiate between a school full of 90 scores and a school full of 99 scores. Nor does it take into account the relative difficulties of each course (which is what UAC does); a school with a larger percentage of 90 scores in say Dance, Aboriginal Studies, etc. (no offense), is apparently better than a school full of 89's in say MX2, Physics, Latin etc.

The first 10-20 schools might be accurate, but after that, it can be taken one way or another.