Two of Perth’s most prestigious private boys’ schools have shot up in the annual secondary education ranking, taking over exclusive all-girls’ schools that usually hold the top spots in the statewide system.

Boys only Hale School and Christ Church Grammar School placed second and third respectively in the top-50 list based on 2019 median Australian Tertiary Admission Rank scores compiled by the School Curriculum and Standards Authority.

For comparison purposes, the graph above shows the top 20 schools ranked from 2012 to 2015 based on the previous Western Australian Certificate of Education ranking system compared to the 2016 to 2019 scoreboards based on the new ATAR ranking.

The graph shows how well schools performed in accordance to how SCSA results have ranked them over the past seven years to give a snapshot of how they placed during that time.