NSW Opportunity Class (OC) Schools

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According to the NSW Department of Education's May 2026 list, 87 schools host Opportunity Classes for the 2027 Year 5 intake — 86 host primary schools across metropolitan Sydney, the Central Coast, the Blue Mountains, the Illawarra, and rural and regional NSW, plus Aurora College's online provision delivered through approximately 600 host primaries.

Approximately 1,810 Year 5 Opportunity Class places are offered across NSW for the 2027 intake. The largest single OC stream is at Hurstville Public School (60 places); most metropolitan sites offer 15 or 30 places, and Aurora College's online program offers 100 places to students in rural and remote areas.

Glenbrook Public School and Blaxland East Public School operate alternating Year 5 OC intakes — each takes a new cohort every second year. The 2027 cohort is at Blaxland East; Glenbrook's next intake begins in 2028.

Yes. Aurora College delivers a Year 5–6 Opportunity Class entirely online via approximately 600 host primary schools across rural and remote NSW. Students remain enrolled at their local school while attending live, scheduled OC lessons through Aurora's virtual classrooms.

Students sit the NSW Opportunity Class Placement Test in Year 4, the year before they enter Year 5 OC. The test covers Reading, Mathematical Reasoning, and Thinking Skills using Cambridge-style multiple-choice questions, and offers placement into a Year 5 OC class for the following calendar year.

Yes. Opportunity Classes are part of NSW public education and are tuition-free. Standard school contributions (e.g. excursions, voluntary contributions) apply at the host primary school in the same way they do for any public-school enrolment.

NSW Department of Education policy reserves 7 boys + 7 girls + 1 academic-merit place per 15-place stream, scaled linearly to 30-, 60-, and 100-place streams. Across the 2027 cohort of 1,810 Year 5 OC places this works out to approximately 845 boys' seats, 845 girls' seats, and 120 merit-only seats filled by raw test rank regardless of gender.

The Equity Placement Model (EPM) reserves up to 20% of seats at every NSW Opportunity Class for high-potential students from under-represented groups: 10% low socio-educational advantage, 5% Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander, 2.5% rural & remote, and 2.5% students with disability. For the 2027 cohort this is approximately 362 of the 1,810 Year 5 OC places. EPM seats sit inside the gender allocation — equity-eligible students take priority within their gender's reserved seats.