37 students got the top ATAR. Which Queensland schools did they go to?

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As high schools across Brisbane celebrate their graduating class of 2025, one elite boys’ school in the inner city may have the most to be proud of.

While not all schools give a detailed breakdown of student marks, many of those that educated the 37 students who earned the state’s top mark – an ATAR of 99.95 – are promoting their success.

Brisbane Girls Grammar, Brisbane Grammar School and Mansfield State High School.

Here’s our list of schools that the top students attended, with names of students where the schools have shared them publicly.

Brisbane Grammar School in Spring Hill has seven students who achieved an ATAR of 99.95, including the dux, Benjamin Li.

In an article on the school’s website, Li said that at BGS he had learned the value of discipline and hard work. “It feels good to have that hard work recognised,” he said.

Its neighbour, Brisbane Girls Grammar, has four students who scored 99.95: Saathvika Maturu, Zara Walsh, Mei Mei Zhang and Grace Gong.

Over in East Brisbane, the Anglican Church Grammar School, known as Churchie, has three boys with the top mark.

Another school with three top achievers is Mansfield State High School, a large public school on Brisbane’s southside. Students Nevindie Botheju, Doris Wei and Andrea Wang all achieved an ATAR of 99.95, with their school praising their “quiet determination, resilience and integrity”.

Somerville House, the private girls’ school in South Brisbane, has two – Rachel Chen and Ee Lin Saw – with the school posting that they were “incredibly proud of their hard work and dedication”.

Inner-city Catholic girls’ school All Hallows’ had one student with a 99.95 ATAR: Eliza Lee.

St Joseph’s Nudgee College at Boondall had one also, Lucian De Wet, as did their Spring Hill rivals St Joseph’s Gregory Terrace, with Cooper Dooley.

Co-ed private school John Paul College had one student with the top rank, Chanu Jung, while Indooroopilly’s Ambrose Treacy College celebrated the same result with its dux Lachlan Kunde.

On Thursday evening, the selective Queensland Academy for Science Mathematics and Technology (QASMT) had not shared its students results publicly. But graduate Katherine Lu was called out by the state’s tertiary admissions centre earlier in the day as one of the state’s top achievers.

On the Gold Coast, Somerset College at Mudgeeraba had what it called its “best results ever”, with three students achieving 99.95. St Hilda’s student Sarah Bigg and AB Paterson College’s Matilda Grant also got top marks.

Sunshine Coast Grammar School celebrated the 99.95 ATAR of student Nicholas Heeks, who in turn paid tribute to his supportive friends and passionate teachers.

Outside of the state’s south-east corner, Townsville Grammar School praised two girls, Harini Ramesh and Winnie Shaw, for their top achievement.

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