Orange High School, James Sheahan Catholic High School and Kinross Wolaroi School were some of the top-performing government, independent and Catholic high schools in the region according to the NAPLAN results released on Wednesday.
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Results from the 2018 exams were revealed with marks available in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and numeracy for each school.
Students in years three, five, seven and nine undertake the compulsory national testing each year.
Crunching the results from each tested year revealed the top performing government, independent and Catholic high schools in the region.
Topping the list of government schools in the region was Orange High School with a combined student score of 5473 for the five tested areas.
Dubbo School of Distance Education ranked second with 5440 points, followed by Denison College Bathurst Campus (5395), Blayney High School (5363) and Cowra High School (5322).
When it comes to Catholic high schools, students from MacKillop College in Bathurst out-scored similar denomination schools with a score of 5782.
They were followed by St Matthew's Catholic College Mudgee with 5683 points, then James Sheahan Catholic High School in Orange (5641), St Stanislaus' College in Bathurst (5607) and Hennessy Catholic College in Young (5563).
When it comes to independent high schools across the Central West, another Bathurst based school topped the list.
Students at All Saints' College (as it was known before merging with The Scots School) scored a combined 5887 in the NAPLAN results.
Coming in second for independent schools was The Scots School (also in Bathurst) with 5838 points.
Third was Kinross Wolaroi School in Orange (5831), Orange Anglican School (5820) and Dubbo Christian School (5669).
This year's tests in May will see half of the schools do the online version, followed by 100 per cent of schools in 2020.
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