Applications for Opportunity Classes and Aurora 2026 are now open!
Selective high school and Opportunity Class applications are open from 7 November 2024 to 21 February 2025.
Where are selective high schools (Year 7-12) located?
There are 4 types of selective high schools:
• fully selective high schools, where all students attending the school have high potential or are gifted
• partially selective high schools, where there is a mix of students who have high potential or are gifted and local area students
• 4 agricultural selective high schools, including 3 boarding schools
• Aurora College, which provides online selective classes for rural and remote students in their local host schools.
Search for a selective high school near you at Find a selective high school.
Where are opportunity classes (Year 5-6) located?
There are 2 types of opportunity classes:
• full-time opportunity classes in selected primary schools
• Aurora College, which provides online opportunity classes for rural and remote students in their local authorised host schools.
Our closest opportunity class is Moss Vale Public School. Students successfully placed attend the opportunity class full-time in Years 5 and 6. In most cases, students who have accepted a place in an opportunity class will leave their current school to attend the school with the opportunity class.
Aurora College offers Years 7–10 rural and remote students an opportunity to study English, maths and science selective classes at a virtual high school as part of the Rural and Remote Education: Blueprint for action. Students must be enrolled in a NSW public school that is classified as rural and remote to apply to Aurora through the Selective High Schools Placement Test.
Further information about the structure and curriculum offered is available at the Aurora CollegeExternal link website.
Find more information about the process and applications here.