Recent St Narsai HSC graduates Stavro Ablaha and Mary Sada said the school was close-knit, helping them achieve strong results. In 2024, St George Christian School in south-west Sydney took a gamble. Caroline Lee, the head of its senior school, noticed her students were overly stressed and were submitting an increasing number of requests for disability provisions due to anxiety. The school took a "pretty scary leap", she admits, and overhauled its assessment structure.