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School intake zones (catchment areas) for NSW government schools

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Publisher NSW Department of EducationLicence CC BY 4.0Tables 3Latest 2026-10-02

The local enrolment areas of NSW government schools from the NSW Department of Education, as polygon layers. Every child is entitled to enrol at the school whose zone covers their home address. The Department publishes one layer for primary schools, one for high schools and one for zones set to start in a coming year.

NSW Department of Education releases these 3 tables as one dataset on its portal, so every table here shares the version date 2026-10-02. Each table has its own page with a format picker, a field list, a sample record and its version history.

Also called: Local enrolment areas for NSW primary schools, Local enrolment areas for NSW secondary schools, NSW future school catchment areas, NSW high school catchment areas, NSW primary school catchment areas, NSW school zone changes, NSW school zones by address, high school, NSW school zones by address, primary, New and changed NSW school intake zones.

TableDownload latestRowsFields
Primary school intake zones, New South WalesThe intake zone polygons for NSW government schools in the primary layer, with the school, catchment type and the school years each zone covers. 1,65718
High school intake zones, New South WalesThe intake zone polygons for NSW government schools in the secondary layer, with the school, catchment type and the school years each zone covers. 44318
Future school intake zones, New South WalesThe intake zone polygons the NSW Department of Education has set for a coming enrolment year, with the school, catchment type and the year each zone applies from for each school year. 10418

What this site did to the data. Cells were typed, headers were renamed and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. The publisher's file sits beside every version so the change can be checked.