Seven schools have tumbled out of the top 10 on this year's higher-level English merit list, while for higher-level maths, a new rising star has leapt an astounding 65 places to storm into the top 10.
In a country town at the edge of the Warrumbungles in NSW's north west, a tiny high school is punching well above its weight in the HSC.
Grace Corr won't have to miss out a year working to fund her studies after receiving a Wakil scholarship.
Find out how your friends, children and students did here, as ATARs are released across the state
Nathalie Teh nearly had a heart attack, twins took home nearly identical marks, and Alana Adamus' cat was as nervous as she was.
Find out how your friends, children and students did here, as we countdown to the top schools in the state.
Selective school James Ruse Agricultural High School has taken out the first spot in the Higher School Certificate for the 21st consecutive year.
This list celebrates the students who scored 90 or above in 10 or more units in the HSC.
NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has warned that Australia should not try to emulate the high-pressure student environments of high-performing countries where private tutoring is endemic.
Type in your school's name to see where it ranked in the 2016 HSC.
At 14-years-old Hicham Jansiz fled Homs, a city the Syrian civil war has burned to rubble, at 16 Hicham waited in a refugee camp thinking only of water and the food he could not eat.
As Year 12 students across the state await their HSC results tomorrow, 124 got the good news early: they had topped the state in a subject.
It's HSC results week. Here's all you need to know about changes to ATAR as a result of a Fairfax Media investigation.
More than half of NSW year 9 students would fail at the first hurdle to get their HSC based on this year's NAPLAN results, released in full today.
He outraged the world by hiking the price of an essential drug by more than 5000 per cent.
Spare a thought for Australia's 15-year-olds. If they don't have enough to contend with, between the immediate demands of Snapchat and a future of robots stealing their jobs, now they have to bear the brunt of a nation's slighted pride.
We assess some of the most common arguments put forward to explain why Australian students are going backwards on key global tests like PISA, released this week.
My peers who took part in this test were unanimous in that they did not, to the best of their ability, attempt the exam.
Try these questions from the 2015 PISA science test.
A leaked proposal shows the university wants to save $51 million a year by cutting back on support services, finance and other operations.
Fifty years after Charlie Perkins became the first Indigenous graduate, Aborigines are still struggling to gain an education.
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