um no they aren't crazy and doing topics early doesn't align with the pace of baulko/nsg/a lot of private schools that accelerate even further. but it is true that penrith's maths is good ig. i think penrith's maths is good and girra's sciences are good, i would not call either school crazy good tho
all other subjects are not average, penrith arguably has a really strong humanities cohort with one guy in the past few years getting a 99+ atar doing no maths (pretty sure i saw them on hsc ninja) and state ranks in humanities are pretty acheivable for penrith cohorts historically, and they did come first in the state for ancient last year. there are a few really high achieving maths extension students over the past few years but that trend is dying out slowly. advanced maths, adv eng is average (still objectively good considering the rest of the state), bio and chem are alr, phys is cooked, social sciences is decent and tech and pdhpe is ok
the complaint abt penrith is not the academics per se (its not like its the kind of school that you have to rank like top 10 if you want to band 6) its that they make up dumbass rules to manufacture a competitive environment e.g. restrictions to cohort sizes for subjects, mandatory pre and post exam buffers, pressure to do easier subjects to band 6 in order to increase the schools band 6 number, in some cases out right shaming in class settings if you do badly etc. only complaint is that its a toxic environment academically
