Compare government, Catholic, and independent schools on Sydney's North Shore.
The North Shore's reputation rests on numbers few regions can match: four academically selective high schools — North Sydney Boys, North Sydney Girls, Hornsby Girls and Normanhurst Boys — all posting results at the very top of the state, plus an independent belt including Abbotsleigh at Wahroonga, Knox, Barker and St Aloysius' College at Kirribilli. The average academic score across all 147 schools here is the highest of any region we track in Australia, and that's with the government sector carrying 86 of them: the public primaries along the North Shore rail line — Chatswood, Lindfield, Killara, Wahroonga — are the engine of the area's results and the reason its school catchments carry property premiums. The Catholic system contributes strong parish primaries like Holy Family at Lindfield. We've drawn this region to include the Ryde–Hunters Hill corridor, where Northcross Christian School posts standout primary results. The honest caveat: with the bar this high, "average for the North Shore" is still well above average for NSW — read the scores in that context.
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