North Sydney Boys High School Overview | High School Guide

Want to know how North Sydney Boys maintains its consistently high HSC rankings? In this overview, we look at its history, famous alumni, and the experience of past students.

What’s in the North Sydney Boys High School Guide?

We’ve created this Guide to provide information to parents and students so they can make an informed decision about applying for North Sydney Boys High School.

This guide includes additional articles discussing:

• Admission requirements and process
• Applying to North Sydney Boys for Year 7 admission
• How to enrol at North Sydney Boys in Years 8-11
• Student Life at North Sydney Boys
• Success Secrets from North Sydney Boys Students and Alumni

In this overview article, we will discuss:

• • Overview
  • History
  • Famous alumni
  • Key statistics
  • HSC subjects offered

Overview

North Sydney Boys High School is an academically selective public school situated in Crows Nest. The school is built on the land of the Cammeraygal people of the Eora Nation, who are its Traditional Custodians.

Up to 150 students are admitted into year 7 through the Selective High Schools Test, while a smaller portion of students gain entrance in years 8 to 11 by directly applying to the school.

History

In 1912, North Sydney Public School established an intermediate high school section enrolling both males and females. Then, it was located on Blue Street where Greenwood Plaza currently stands.

In order to better facilitate its high school students, the school was expanded onto two separate sites as North Sydney Girls High School and North Sydney Boys High School in 1914 and 1915 respectively. The boys’ school was relocated to its current site on Falcon Street, which is what inspired the falcon on its logo.

The first headmaster was Nimrod Greenwood and was succeeded by Charles Rattray Smith in 1915, who went to go head Sydney High School in 1918. Over the past 5 years, as of 2021, North Sydney Boys High School has ranked in the top 3 of NSW high schools for HSC performance.

Famous Alumni

Inspired by the street that the school is located on, Falcon Street, the alumni of North Sydney Boys High School are known as “Old Falconians”.

North Sydney Boys High School is responsible for producing some significant public figures in public service, academia, science, business and sport.

Law

Politics

Academia

Science and medicine

Arts and media

Sport

Key statistics

How many students go to North Sydney Boys? What’s the student diversity like? How does it perform? Let’s take a look.

Student Profile

The total number of students enrolled had stayed relatively consistent over the years.

HSC Performance

North Sydney Boys High School has ranked in the top 3 over the past five years. The full list of school rankings can be found here.

Note: If you want to learn more about what high school rankings, including what Unique B6/E4 students and success rates mean, check out our Beginner’s Guide to High School Rankings.

HSC subjects offered

Accelerated by two years

• Business Studies
• Information Processes and Technology

Non-accelerated

What’s next?

Now that you know a little bit about North Sydney Boys, do you want to attend it? Well, in the next article, we go through the entrance requirements for North Sydney Boys High School! Read now.

Source:

All of our information is sourced from the NSW Department of Education website: North Sydney Boys High School.