Recommendations - Northern Beaches Schools

[ClaireKilbane]

We are going to be moving to Sydney and bringing our daughter who is currently in her 1st year of A levels in the UK, we have been told that the Northern Beaches area has a good family demographic. Can anyone recommend any good schools in this area?

 

Any advice would be great :-)

[BooBooBear]

We are going to be moving to Sydney and bringing our daughter who is currently in her 1st year of A levels in the UK, we have been told that the Northern Beaches area has a good family demographic. Can anyone recommend any good schools in this area?

 

Most kids I know from The Northern Beaches go to school outside the area. They travel about 30 - 45 minutes to school by bus or mummy's car.

 

Hornsby Girls High School has a brilliant academic record. I know of several girls who travel there daily from the Northern Beaches (Avalon)

 

Otherwise just search on something like this: http://www.australianschoolsdirectory.com.au/1845/nbsc-mackellar-girls-campus-manly-vale

 

Yes The Northern Beaches is a fantastic place for families.

[Collaroy7]

Hi Claire

Lots of kids go to state schools (or public as they call them here) or private on Northern Beaches. If looking at local private schools, St Luke's Grammar school is excellent & had highest HSC results outside selective school on Northern Beaches (my son is there in Year 12 currently). Northern Beaches Christian School also has good results. There are the uber pricey private schools all over the city which take longer to get to. Freshwater Campus also seems quite good for state High school, a lot of kids move there in Year 11 & really like it. For other state schools, bear in mind lots of them are single sex, not co-ed apart from Cromer, Mater Maria & Narrabeen Sports High. The catholic schools are mainly single sex. There are more private girls schools on Upper North Shore which are also good.

So depends on state route or private - would definitely look at HSC results to draw up shortlist & bear in mind different curriculum to UK schools as well as age for year. Here kids can start a year later than UK so we re-aligned our son when he moved schools so he was in with kids of his age rather than up to a year younger. He will be 18 when he goes to Uni after school, if we'd left him in line with his UK year, he'd have been 17.

Hope that helps!