The 2012 HSC ranking tables are worthy of some comment:
High - 8th
Grammar - 10th
Shore - 19th
Kings - 38th
Riverview - 49th
Newington - 64th
Scots - 80th
Joeys - 107th
I cannot fathom how Joeys have dropped so far down the academic ladder?
And Scots have dropped a long way as well, many staff have left in the last 4 years. Rugby has improved but...at the same time academic results have gone down. I think upwards of 30 full time teaching staff left in 2009-10, which is huge in any school and unheard of in a GPS school.
Newington a bit harder to compare as many of their brighter students do the IB, so I imagine they'd be a lot higher if they only did HSC.
Excellent results at Shore, maybe there's a lesson here about where sport and academic fit into the structure.
Interestingly, if you go to the websites of Shore, Newington and Scots, you find Shore rightly boasting of their best HSC results in years, Newington boasting of their results with the rider of IB results to follow, and no mention at all of the HSC even taking place on the Scots website.
It wasn't that long ago that New, Shore and Scots were quite close with their academic results.