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Several Western Sydney and rural schools have made a strong showing in the nations’s top 100 public high schools, proving location is no barrier to academic excellence. FIND OUT WHO THEY ARE
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Inner-city selective schools dominate the nation’s Top 100 but several Western Sydney and rural schools also made a strong showing.

Country champions, suburban stars: NSW’s best regional schools
Several Western Sydney and rural schools have made a strong showing in the nations’s top 100 public high schools, proving location is no barrier to academic excellence. FIND OUT WH...
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