Carlingford. Students with migrant backgrounds

The best performing school in the state, James Ruse Agricultural High School, at Carlingford, is also the selective school with the most students from a migrant background. New figures obtained under FOI laws show that 95.2 per cent of students list a language background other than English in their entry application. Only 41 students from an English-speaking background are studying at the school - an average of seven in each year. Children of migrants fill almost 80 per cent of the places offered at the state's top 10 selective high schools, which are all ranked in the top 20 HSC performers. The dominant cultural group is Chinese, with the most applicants and the highest success rate in the entry test. The second most represented group was Vietnamese followed by Korean.