Students from James Ruse have a proud record of academic achievement.  The school has consistently obtained outstanding results in public examinations while excellent performances have been recorded in State, Australian and International competitions in a variety of intellectual pursuits.  The majority of James Ruse students proceed to university with considerable success in a broad range of tertiary studies in which students are well represented in Agricultural Science, Law, Veterinary Science, Medicine, Science, Engineering, Economics, Information Technology, Computing and via a range of urban and rural occupations.

Higher School Certificate Results - 2006
Our school regularly has students who obtain a 100 UAI. In 2006 Alexander Zhang, Dominic Balasuriya, May Wong and Margit Shah all obtained 100.

Three of our students came first in NSW in Agriculture, Mathematics Extension 2 and Music 2. Lillian So topped Music as an accelerant and even now is only in Year 11.  Our students do the name of Agriculture proud,last year taking out all places in the top 10 except 4th position.  24 of our students were placed in the top 10 in NSW in various subjects with 11 of these students as accelerants.

In 2006, 68 of our students were considered top all rounders making the Premier's List by achieving a mark over 90 in 10 or more units.  In fact, our Year 12 obtained 790 marks of 90 or above and our median UAI was above 99.

All of our students proceeded to university in a large cross section of faculties, with half of our 2006 cohort accepting positions in medicine and law courses.

Click here  to download the highlights of achievements in 2006.