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Public schools in NSW will welcome back students from next week as lockdown further lifts, but some elite Sydney private schools are making their own rules.
A few prestigious colleges are so concerned about Covid clusters during Year 12 exams they are offering remote learning to some students until next year.
Trinity Grammar at Summer Hill has barred senior students from returning to class until January, despite the government's roadmap specifically opening schools before the HSC period begins on November 9.
Sydney's Trinity Grammar School (pictured) said they would not allow Year 12s back on campus until 2022 in case a Covid case disrupted the Year 12 exams
The school said the importance of students completing International Baccalaureate exams - a globally recognised alternative to the HSC - unhindered was more important than resuming in-person classes.
'If one of the boys was infected because of that return, it would prevent many members of the cohort from attempting their examinations … we deemed this risk was not worth taking,' headmaster Tim Bowden told The Daily Telegraph.
The college prides itself on the performance of students in IB exams with five students last year attaining a perfect score of 45 - equivalent to an ATAR rank of 99.95, according to a press release from the school.
'There were 35 perfect scores in Australia – and Trinity students had five of them,' the $37,030-a-year school wrote.
High school students have dealt with more than 18 months of intermittent lockdowns and
