Top 500 Private Schools in Australia (2025)

School Rankings

Explore Australia’s top-performing private schools with the definitive 2025 Schools360 Top 500. This national list is powered by Australia’s most comprehensive school assessment framework, built around 60 scoring elements across five building blocks:

  1. Academic Excellence

  2. Student Wellbeing

  3. Learning Programs

  4. Learning Environment, and

  5. Institutional Excellence

From academically elite schools to those excelling in student wellbeing, co-curricular depth, or future-focused learning, this ranking provides families with a clear, evidence-based view of school performance, all in one place. This year’s Top 500 includes schools from New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, and the ACT, providing the broadest-ever coverage of Australia’s independent school sector.

What’s new in our 2025 rankings?

We’ve rolled out an AI-Enabled school scoring engine to bring even greater consistency, transparency, and depth to our rankings. Key features include:

  • Unbiased, consistent scoring using the same criteria across every school

  • Manual training on 150+ human-scored schools to align with expert judgment

  • Web-enabled assessments that capture the most current, publicly available data

  • Human review to ensure accuracy, context, and quality assurance

This hybrid approach, combining artificial intelligence with expert human validation, ensures our assessments remain both rigorous and reliable.

Why Schools360?

With 60 individual scoring elements, Schools360 provides more in-depth assessment than any other ranking platform globally.

Schools360 gives parents and educators a detailed, balanced view of what truly matters in school performance. Whether you’re comparing academic outcomes, student wellbeing, university pathways, or co-curricular programs, our rankings are designed to support informed, confident decision-making.

Browse the full table below to explore the top 500 private schools in Australia, expand the view to see a detailed breakdown of the building block scores.