Principal's Message

Principal's Message

Cammeraygal High School is an evolving and dynamic 7–12 comprehensive, coeducational multi–campus high school with the two campuses being located at Pacific Highway and West Street Crows Nest. The school commenced with an initial enrolment of up to 120 Year 7 students in 2015 and has continued to enrol other cohorts with each ensuing year. From 2021 the years 7, 8 and 9 cohorts are enrolled on the Pacific Highway site with years 10, 11 and 12 on the West Street site with an enrolment of approximately 910 students in 2024. The student population will exceed our capacity in 2025 limiting local enrolments entering our school. 

The school is a coherent dual campus school catering to all students from Years 7-12. Cammeraygal High School has a highly engaged parent community that has continued to support the school's initiatives, priorities and innovative programs which includes personalised education practices, creative and performing arts, and student leadership programs. The school continues to develop a collaboratively built school culture that provides learning opportunities for all students. Cammeraygal has an emphasis on academic excellence and differentiation with a strong reputation for delivering quality teaching and learning experiences in an inclusive learning environment. The school develops the whole student by offering a range of experiences to extend their skills, confidence and overall wellbeing. The 2023 HSC delivered outstanding results across the school with the highest ATAR score being 99.9! The 2024 HSC results were also impressive Cammeraygal is committed to continually improving effective classroom practices with staff professional learning being the key to ensuring this. Effective differentiation to ensure the learning needs of all students are being met has been a focus of professional learning at the school since 2015 to ensure diverse mixed ability classes where all students thrive.

When surveyed in 2024, 89% of Year 12 students indicated that university was their preferred post-school destination.

Cammeraygal is committed to continually improving effective classroom practices with staff professional learning being the key to ensuring this. Effective differentiation to ensure the learning needs of all students are being met has been a focus of professional learning at the school since 2015 to ensure diverse mixed ability classes where all students thrive.

A continued focus on the explicit teaching of literacy skills, specifically writing, will allow our students to demonstrate higher levels of growth on external measures such as NAPLAN and the HSC. This will be enhanced by a shared, whole-school approach to the teaching of literacy that will be evident in all classrooms from Stages 4 to 6.

Cammeraygal will also, as a two-site school, continue to focus on cultural cohesion and transition to ensure that a consistent and unifying approach is evident in wellbeing and learning programs. Maintaining a cohesive school culture is vital to ensure that all students feel a sense of belonging to the school and this will be achieved through the development of the Cammeraygal Code and the inclusion of a mentoring program to ensure that every student feels known, valued, and cared for.

I am delighted to bring you Cammeraygal High School's HSC and ATAR highlights for 2023 and 2024.

Please see a summary of the results the 2023 HSC:

SMH Leagues table for NSW schools

• Overall rank 85th - last year was 87
• 7th top comprehensive public high school
• 3rd top comprehensive coeducational public high school
• Band 6/E4 - 18.53% - up from 17.78% in 2022
• 55.4% of students got Band 5 or 6 compared with 52.3% in 2022
• 4 all rounders - students achieving band 6 or E4 in 10 units

ATAR Highlights

• 39 students with an ATAR over 90 (out of 105) - only 17.5% of students in the state get over 90. 37% of our students achieved this.
• 60 students with an ATAR over 80. Only 35% of the state receive an ATAR over 80, 57% of our students achieved this.
• 17 students with ATARS over 95.
• Josh H - 99.9 (DUX)
• Noah R and Alexia R - 99.35
• Sam P - 99.3
• Liv W - 99
• Henry S - 98.65
• Matthew C - 97.55
• Angelique M - 97.45
• Sumi I - 97.4
• James T - 96.55
• Mia B- 96

Congratulations again to the class of 2023!!

 

Cammeraygal High School HSC Snapshot 2024

Achievements

• 32/105 students achieved an ATAR over 90
• 15.8% of Band 6 / E4
• 51% Band 5 and 6/E3-4

 SMH leagues tables based only on Band 6/E4 results:

• 121st in state, 17th in comprehensive public schools
• 9th in co-ed comprehensive high school

Highlights

• Strong results in comparison to state mean in Legal Studies, Society and Culture, Music 1, Maths Extension 2, Modern History, English Extension 2, Maths Extension 1
• Percentage of students achieving a Band 6/E4 above state percentage: Ancient History, Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Studies, Economics, English Extension 1, English Extension 2, Legal Studies, Maths Extension 1, Maths Extension 2, Modern History, History Extension, Music 1, Society and Culture, Studies of Religion
• Impressive z scores for Music 1, Society and Culture, English Extension 2, Studies of Religion, Legal Studies, History Extension, Modern History, English Extension 1,    Economics
• 2 unit courses with an examination mean of over 80: Maths Extension 2, Legal Studies, Mathematics Extension 1, Visual Arts, Economics, English Advanced, Drama, Modern History
• 1 unit courses with an examination mean of over 40: English Extension 2, History Extension, English Extension 1, Studies of Religion
• Courses with all students gaining results in the top 2 bands: English Extension 1, English Extension 2, Mathematics Extension 1, Mathematics Extension 2, History Extension, Music 1, Studies of Religion
• Legal Studies and Visual Arts saw over 80% of students achieve in the top two bands, whilst Society and Culture saw 79% of students achieve in top two bands. Modern History and Physics saw 50% of students achieve in the top two bands
• Allrounders – 4

ATAR Highlights

• 32 students with an ATAR over 90 (out of 105), equating to 30% of our ATAR cohort
• 49 students with an ATAR over 80
• 12 students with an ATAR over 95

 

Congratulations to all of our students on reaching this huge milestone in their lives. We congratulate parents and caregivers on supporting your child through this challenging year of their schooling.

All of our students have made us very proud individually and as a group of delightful young people!! Congratulations as well to our teachers on their huge efforts in supporting our students to achieve this milestone. The HSC results are our best ever which is a tribute to our students and their teachers working so productively and positively together.