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Sydney Boys High School has produced numerous prominent alumni, referred to as "Old Boys". Many graduates are active in alumni organisations, such as the Sydney High School Old Boys Union (OBU), the High Club, and High Rugby Friends. Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia (2018–2022), is an alumnus of Sydney Boys High School.
He is memorialized in the dedication of the gymnasium at North Sydney Boys High School in his name [76] [90] Rugby League Internationals Herman Peters [76] (later Coach of Kangaroos 'The Invincibles' on their historic unbeaten tour of England and France in 1982), and Don McKinnon
Of the 130 Rhodes Scholars from 1904 to 2006 and from New South Wales, 85 attended a GPS School and of the 12 Australian Prime Ministers that attended school in Sydney from 1902 to 2023, 6 attended a GPS school specifically Sydney Grammar School, Sydney Boys High, Shore School or St Ignatius College (Riverview). [4]
Many of the oldest selective schools in NSW have always been selective since establishment, including Fort Street (1849), Sydney Boys and Sydney Girls (1883), North Sydney Girls High School (1914), North Sydney Boys High School (1915), Hurlstone Agricultural High School (1959) and James Ruse Agricultural High School (1959). [4] Before World War ...
Hon. Lionel Murphy – Justice of the High Court of Australia (1975–86), 22nd Attorney-General of Australia (1972–75), Federal Senator (1961–72) Hon. Albert Piddington – Justice of the High Court of Australia (teacher at Sydney Boys High School) [12] Hon. Nye Perram – current Justice of the Federal Court of Australia (2008–present)
At Heffron's instigation, the new school would be co-educational, in a period when the vast majority of NSW secondary schools were sex segregated. Prior to 1960, Robert E. Mobbs, a former Second World War army officer who had also helped establish Fairfield Boys' High and Arthur Phillip High, was appointed as the school's first headmaster ...
The school is especially noted for its consistent academic excellence, having ranked 1st out of all New South Wales high schools in the Higher School Certificate for 27 consecutive years from 1996 to 2022, narrowly beaten by North Sydney Boys High School in 2023, as well as 1st in the national government NAPLAN tests across Australia since ...
The Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales (AAGPS, also known as GPS or Great Public Schools) is an association of mostly private boys schools in New South Wales formed in 1892 currently comprising King's School, Sydney Grammar School, Newington College, Saint Ignatius' College, St Joseph's College, Sydney Boys High ...