One NSW government school, with its code, name, address and contacts, the level of schooling and the kinds of classes it offers, its latest full-time equivalent enrolment, the share of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and of students from a language background other than English, the areas it falls in and its latitude and longitude.

What does a null percentage mean?

The Department writes np where five or fewer students are counted, so the percentage is not published. Those cells are null here with a suppressed flag.

Are the fields all current?

The file carries the date it was extracted, but the fields come from different collections. Enrolments are as at August of the latest year, language background as at March, and the index of disadvantage as at May, each updated once a year.

Why is the ICSEA value not here?

The Department's file carries each school's ICSEA value, which it sources from ACARA. ACARA's terms for My School allow its content to be reproduced for non-commercial educational use only, so the column is left out until the Department confirms that its CC BY 4.0 licence covers it. Every other column is published.

Datasets / New South Wales / Department of Education

NSW government schools, locations and enrolments

Name: NSW government schools, locations and enrolments
Creator: NSW Department of Education
Published: 2026-10-02
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Publisher NSW Department of EducationUpdated monthlyLicence CC BY 4.0Latest 2026-10-02Rows 2,210Fields 45

The NSW public schools master dataset from the NSW Department of Education, one row per government school. It holds the school code and name, street address, phone, email and website, the level of schooling, selective, opportunity class, speciality and distance education flags, the latest FTE enrolment, the per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and of students with a language background other than English, the family occupation and education index, the date the school opened, and the council area, state and federal electorates, departmental regions, health district, remoteness and latitude and longitude.

Also called: NSW public schools master dataset, NSW government school locations, NSW public school enrolment numbers, Find a NSW public school by suburb.

Before you use it

What is in each row?: One NSW government school, with its code, name, address and contacts, the level of schooling and the kinds of classes it offers, its latest full-time equivalent enrolment, the share of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and of students from a language background other than English, the areas it falls in and its latitude and longitude.
What does a null percentage mean?: The Department writes np where five or fewer students are counted, so the percentage is not published. Those cells are null here with a suppressed flag.
Are the fields all current?: The file carries the date it was extracted, but the fields come from different collections. Enrolments are as at August of the latest year, language background as at March, and the index of disadvantage as at May, each updated once a year.
Why is the ICSEA value not here?: The Department's file carries each school's ICSEA value, which it sources from ACARA. ACARA's terms for My School allow its content to be reproduced for non-commercial educational use only, so the column is left out until the Department confirms that its CC BY 4.0 licence covers it. Every other column is published.

2,209 schools drawn in 932 cells of 0.05 degrees, the fullest with 27. — Schools counted in cells of 0.05 degrees. State outlines from the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2021, CC BY 4.0.

2,210schools

1849 to 2025years drawn

45fields

12formats

1version

Openings of schools still open per year, 1849 to 2025. 2026 is not drawn because the rows run to 27 January 2026. Both figures are counts of rows from version 2026-10-02, worked out in the build. Nothing else is added.

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Then ask it: What does NSW government schools, locations and enrolments hold, and what changed in the newest version?

claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp

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aggregate?group=lga&metric=sum.latest_year_enrolment_fte

Students (FTE) by council area: 48,392 Blacktown, 34,663 Central Coast (NSW), 31,645 Canterbury-Bankstown, 26,835 Parramatta.

Download it as Excel, CSV, JSON and 9 more formats

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Version "Latest" redirects to the newest version and will change when the publisher releases again. A dated version never changes.

https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-public-schools/latest/data.xlsx

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Use it in Excel, R, Python and more

Excel and Power BI read the CSV from its address and refresh from it. The R and Python packages take any dataset on this site by its slug, so a new dataset needs no new release. The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS, and a query reads only the blocks it touches.

The dated URL in the code never changes. https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-public-schools/latest/ redirects to the newest version.

https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-public-schools/latest/data.csv

In Excel choose Data, then From Web, and paste this address. Excel keeps it, so Refresh All reads the newest version. A sheet holds about a million rows; past that, load the query to the Data Model.

https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-public-schools/latest/data.csv

In Power BI Desktop choose Get data, then Web, paste this address and choose Anonymous when asked how to sign in. A scheduled refresh reads the same address, so the report follows each new version.

library(publicdataau)
df <- pd_read("nsw-public-schools")
pd_attribution(df)

install.packages("publicdataau"). pd_read() fetches the version's Parquet file; pd_rows() and pd_aggregate() ask the query API instead, and pd_connect() attaches the DuckDB file.

import publicdata_au as pd_au
df = pd_au.read("nsw-public-schools")
df.attrs["publicdata"]["attribution"]

pip install "publicdata-au[pandas]". read() fetches the version's Parquet file; rows() and aggregate() ask the query API, and connect() attaches the DuckDB file.

INSTALL httpfs; LOAD httpfs;
ATTACH 'https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-public-schools/v/2026-10-02/data.duckdb' AS nsw_public_schools (READ_ONLY);
SELECT school_code, count(*) FROM nsw_public_schools.records GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 2 DESC;

The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS and only the blocks a query touches are read. Parquet works the same way: FROM read_parquet(url).

const res = await fetch("https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/nsw-public-schools/aggregate?group=lga&metric=sum.latest_year_enrolment_fte");
const { rows, publicdata } = await res.json();
console.log(rows, publicdata.attribution);

The query API answers a page on any site as well as Node, with no key. It returns the rows and the attribution the licence asks for.

What is in it

Column names are made snake_case and the publisher's original header is kept beside each one. Blank cells are null. Nothing is added, removed, ranked or summarised.

Field	Type	Publisher's header	Note
school_code	integer	School_code
ageid	integer	AgeID
school_name	string	School_name
street	string	Street
town_suburb	string	Town_suburb
postcode	string	Postcode
phone	string	Phone
school_email	string	School_Email
website	string	Website
fax	string	Fax
latest_year_enrolment_fte	number	latest_year_enrolment_FTE	Full-time equivalent enrolments as reported to the ABS National Schools Statistics Collection, as at August.
indigenous_pct	integer	Indigenous_pct	Per cent of FTE students who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The Department writes np where the student number is five or fewer; it is null here with a suppressed flag.
lbote_pct	integer	LBOTE_pct	Per cent of students, by headcount, from a language background other than English, as at March. np where the student number is five or fewer.
level_of_schooling	string	Level_of_schooling
selective_school	string	Selective_school
opportunity_class	boolean	Opportunity_class
school_specialty_type	string	School_specialty_type
school_subtype	string	School_subtype
preschool_ind	boolean	Preschool_ind
distance_education	string	Distance_education
intensive_english_centre	boolean	Intensive_english_centre
school_gender	string	School_gender
late_opening_school	boolean	Late_opening_school
date_1st_teacher	date	Date_1st_teacher	The date the first teacher was on duty, which the Department treats as the date the school opened.
lga	string	LGA
electorate_from_2023	string	electorate_from_2023
electorate_2015_2022	string	electorate_2015_2022
fed_electorate_from_2025	string	fed_electorate_from_2025
fed_electorate_2016_2024	string	fed_electorate_2016_2024
operational_directorate	string	Operational_directorate
principal_network	string	Principal_network
operational_directorate_office	string	Operational_directorate_office
operational_directorate_office_phone	string	Operational_directorate_office_phone
operational_directorate_office_address	string	Operational_directorate_office_address
facs_district	string	FACS_district
local_health_district	string	Local_health_district
aecg_region	string	AECG_region
asgs_remoteness	string	ASGS_remoteness
latitude	number	Latitude	As published. The Department's data dictionary does not state the datum.
longitude	number	Longitude	As published. The Department's data dictionary does not state the datum.
assets_unit	string	Assets unit
sa4	string	SA4
foei_value	number	FOEI_Value	Family Occupation and Education Index, the Department's school-level index of educational disadvantage. A higher value means more disadvantage.
date_extracted	date	Date_extracted	The night the file was extracted. Fields come from different update cycles, so not every field was refreshed on this date.
support_classes	string	Support_classes
suppressed	array		Names of the fields the publisher suppressed in this row. The cells are null.

Download this table as a data dictionary (Excel), or read it as a Frictionless Table Schema at schema.json. The key is school_code.

A sample of 10 rows

From the latest version, newest first by date first teacher on duty, then in the publisher's order, with every field. A blank cell is shown as null.

school_code	ageid	school_name	street	town_suburb	postcode	phone	school_email	website	fax	latest_year_enrolment_fte	indigenous_pct	lbote_pct	level_of_schooling	selective_school	opportunity_class	school_specialty_type	school_subtype	preschool_ind	distance_education	intensive_english_centre	school_gender	late_opening_school	date_1st_teacher	lga	electorate_from_2023	electorate_2015_2022	fed_electorate_from_2025	fed_electorate_2016_2024	operational_directorate	principal_network	operational_directorate_office	operational_directorate_office_phone	operational_directorate_office_address	facs_district	local_health_district	aecg_region	asgs_remoteness	latitude	longitude	assets_unit	sa4	foei_value	date_extracted	support_classes
8933	89905	Bayside High School	Princes Highway	Kogarah	2217	02 8566 2200	bayside-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au	https://bayside-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/	null	null	null	null	Secondary School	Not Selective	false	Comprehensive	Year 7 to Year 12	false	N	false	Coed	false	2026-01-27	Bayside (NSW)	Rockdale	Rockdale	Barton	Cook	Metropolitan South	Kogarah	Arncliffe	131 536	Arncliffe Education Office, Corner Segenhoe and Avenal Streets	null	null	null	Major Cities of Australia	-33.9673955	151.1374145	null	Sydney - Inner South West	82	2026-10-02	null
8935	89907	Box Hill High School	George Street	Box Hill	2765	02 9421 1200	BoxHill-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au	https://boxhill-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/	null	null	null	null	Secondary School	Not Selective	false	Comprehensive	Year 7 to Year 9	false	N	false	Coed	false	2026-01-27	The Hills	Hawkesbury	null	Greenway	null	Metropolitan North	South Creek	Quakers Hill	131 536	Building T3C, Nirimba Education Precinct, Eastern Road	null	null	null	Major Cities of Australia	-33.6457	150.898968	null	Sydney - Baulkham Hills and Hawkesbury	33	2026-10-02	null
4681	89440	Green Square Public School	Joynton Avenue	Zetlands	2017	8344 7100	greensquare-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au	https://greensquare-p.schools.nsw.gov.au	null	107	null	75	Primary School	Not Selective	false	Comprehensive	Kindergarten to Year 6	false	N	false	Coed	false	2025-01-31	Sydney	Heffron	Heffron	Sydney	Sydney	Metropolitan South	Kamay	St Peters	131 536	St Peters Education Office, 93 Church Street	null	null	Metropolitan East	Major Cities of Australia	-33.908383	151.20668	null	Sydney - City and Inner South	0	2026-10-02	null
4689	89442	Melonba Public School	10 SWALLOWTAIL ST	MELONBA	2765	02 8808 4800	melonba-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au	https://melonba-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/	null	776	null	92	Primary School	Not Selective	false	Comprehensive	Kindergarten to Year 6	false	N	false	Coed	false	2025-01-31	Blacktown	Londonderry	Londonderry	Chifley	Chifley	Metropolitan North	South Creek	Quakers Hill	131 536	Building T3C, Nirimba Education Precinct, Eastern Road	null	null	Metropolitan West	Major Cities of Australia	-33.699759	150.803617	null	Sydney - Blacktown	18	2026-10-02	null
4694	89444	Box Hill Public School	George St	Box Hill	2765	02 9852 6900	boxhill-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au	https://boxhill-p.schools.nsw.gov.au	null	271	null	91	Primary School	Not Selective	false	Comprehensive	Kindergarten to Year 6	false	N	false	Coed	false	2025-01-31	The Hills	Hawkesbury	Castle Hill	Greenway	Mitchell	Metropolitan North	South Creek	Quakers Hill	131 536	Building T3C, Nirimba Education Precinct, Eastern Road	null	null	Metropolitan West	Major Cities of Australia	-33.64227	150.892123	null	Sydney - Baulkham Hills and Hawkesbury	2	2026-10-02	null
8918	89446	Wentworth Point High School	7 Burroway Rd	WENTWORTH POINT	2127	8737 7000	WentworthPoint-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au	https://wentworthpoint-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/	null	188	null	88	Secondary School	Not Selective	false	Comprehensive	Year 7 to Year 12	false	N	false	Coed	false	2025-01-31	Parramatta	Parramatta	Auburn	Reid	Reid	Metropolitan South	Auburn	St Peters	131 536	St Peters Education Office, 93 Church Street	null	null	Metropolitan South West	Major Cities of Australia	-33.82399	151.08074	null	Sydney - Parramatta	49	2026-10-02	null
8926	46463	Randwick High School	Avoca Street	Randwick	2031	02 9314 9800	randwick-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au	https://randwick-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/	null	1460	2	54	Secondary School	Not Selective	false	Comprehensive	Year 7 to Year 12	false	N	false	Coed	false	2025-01-31	Randwick	Coogee	Coogee	Kingsford Smith	Kingsford Smith	Metropolitan South	Bondi	St Peters	131 536	St Peters Education Office, 93 Church Street	null	null	Metropolitan East	Major Cities of Australia	-33.921832	151.23944	null	Sydney - Eastern Suburbs	50	2026-10-02	null
8927	89458	Gledswood Hills High School	9 GREGORY HILLS DR	GLEDSWOOD HILLS	2557	02 4645 2800	gledswoodhill-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au	https://gledswoodhills-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/	null	87	null	60	Secondary School	Not Selective	false	Comprehensive	Year 7 to Year 9	false	N	false	Coed	false	2025-01-31	Camden	Camden	Camden	Macarthur	Macarthur	Regional South and Connected Communities	Macarthur	Campbelltown	131 536	Corner Lindesay and Lithgow Streets	null	null	Metropolitan South West	Major Cities of Australia	-34.022494	150.769597	null	Sydney - South West	84	2026-10-02	null
4687	88922	Gulyangarri Public School	18 Forbes Street	Liverpool	2170	02 8777 6500	gulyan-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au	https://gulyangarri-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/	null	267	null	86	Primary School	Not Selective	false	Comprehensive	Preschool to Year 6	true	N	false	Coed	false	2024-01-31	Liverpool	Liverpool	Liverpool	Fowler	Fowler	Metropolitan South and West	Liverpool	Glenfield	131 536	Glenfield Education Office, Roy Watts Road	null	null	Metropolitan South West	Major Cities of Australia	-33.917848	150.932241	null	Sydney - South West	118	2026-10-02	null
4686	88920	Tallawong Public School	24 Macquarie Road	Rouse Hill	2155	02 9627 0900	tallawong-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au	https://tallawong-p.schools.nsw.gov.au	null	121	null	76	Primary School	Not Selective	false	Comprehensive	Kindergarten to Year 6	false	N	false	Coed	false	2024-01-30	Blacktown	Riverstone	Riverstone	Greenway	Greenway	Metropolitan North	South Creek	Quakers Hill	131 536	Building T3C, Nirimba Education Precinct, Eastern Road	null	null	Metropolitan West	Major Cities of Australia	-33.6868	150.8991	null	Sydney - Blacktown	35	2026-10-02	null

The first row as JSON

As it appears in data.json.

GET https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-public-schools/latest/data.json
{
  "school_code": 1001,
  "ageid": 44402,
  "school_name": "Abbotsford Public School",
  "street": "350 Great North Rd",
  "town_suburb": "Abbotsford",
  "postcode": "2046",
  "phone": "9713 6220",
  "school_email": "abbotsford-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au",
  "website": "https://abbotsford-p.schools.nsw.gov.au",
  "fax": "9712 1825",
  "latest_year_enrolment_fte": 368.0,
  "indigenous_pct": 2,
  "lbote_pct": 37,
  "level_of_schooling": "Primary School",
  "selective_school": "Not Selective",
  "opportunity_class": false,
  "school_specialty_type": "Comprehensive",
  "school_subtype": "Kindergarten to Year 6",
  "preschool_ind": false,
  "distance_education": "N",
  "intensive_english_centre": false,
  "school_gender": "Coed",
  "late_opening_school": false,
  "date_1st_teacher": "1925-04-01",
  "lga": "Canada Bay",
  "electorate_from_2023": "Drummoyne",
  "electorate_2015_2022": "Drummoyne",
  "fed_electorate_from_2025": "Reid",
  "fed_electorate_2016_2024": "Reid",
  "operational_directorate": "Metropolitan South",
  "principal_network": "Iron Cove",
  "operational_directorate_office": "St Peters",
  "operational_directorate_office_phone": "131 536",
  "operational_directorate_office_address": "St Peters Education Office, 93 Church Street",
  "facs_district": "South Eastern Sydney, Northern Sydney & Sydney",
  "local_health_district": "Sydney",
  "aecg_region": "Metropolitan East",
  "asgs_remoteness": "Major Cities of Australia",
  "latitude": -33.852728,
  "longitude": 151.131206,
  "assets_unit": "Sydney",
  "sa4": "Sydney - Inner West",
  "foei_value": 27.0,
  "date_extracted": "2026-10-02",
  "support_classes": null,
  "suppressed": []
}

{
  "school_code": 1001,
  "ageid": 44402,
  "school_name": "Abbotsford Public School",
  "street": "350 Great North Rd",
  "town_suburb": "Abbotsford",
  "postcode": "2046",
  "phone": "9713 6220",
  "school_email": "abbotsford-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au",
  "website": "https://abbotsford-p.schools.nsw.gov.au",
  "fax": "9712 1825",
  "latest_year_enrolment_fte": 368.0,
  "indigenous_pct": 2,
  "lbote_pct": 37,
  "level_of_schooling": "Primary School",
  "selective_school": "Not Selective",
  "opportunity_class": false,
  "school_specialty_type": "Comprehensive",
  "school_subtype": "Kindergarten to Year 6",
  "preschool_ind": false,
  "distance_education": "N",
  "intensive_english_centre": false,
  "school_gender": "Coed",
  "late_opening_school": false,
  "date_1st_teacher": "1925-04-01",
  "lga": "Canada Bay",
  "electorate_from_2023": "Drummoyne",
  "electorate_2015_2022": "Drummoyne",
  "fed_electorate_from_2025": "Reid",
  "fed_electorate_2016_2024": "Reid",
  "operational_directorate": "Metropolitan South",
  "principal_network": "Iron Cove",
  "operational_directorate_office": "St Peters",
  "operational_directorate_office_phone": "131 536",
  "operational_directorate_office_address": "St Peters Education Office, 93 Church Street",
  "facs_district": "South Eastern Sydney, Northern Sydney & Sydney",
  "local_health_district": "Sydney",
  "aecg_region": "Metropolitan East",
  "asgs_remoteness": "Major Cities of Australia",
  "latitude": -33.852728,
  "longitude": 151.131206,
  "assets_unit": "Sydney",
  "sa4": "Sydney - Inner West",
  "foei_value": 27.0,
  "date_extracted": "2026-10-02",
  "support_classes": null,
  "suppressed": []
}

Query it without downloading

The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Build a query here and run it, then copy the URL or the code into your own work.

Try rows or aggregate for this dataset. The query builder needs JavaScript.

How filters work

Each filter is field=operator.value in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with ilike. Prefix not. to negate a filter, as not.eq.value.

Operator	What it matches
eq.value	Equal to the value.
neq.value	Not equal to the value. A blank cell does not match.
gt.value	Greater than the value.
gte.value	Greater than or equal to the value.
lt.value	Less than the value.
lte.value	Less than or equal to the value.
like.text	Matches a pattern where * stands for any run of characters. Case-sensitive.
ilike.text	The same as like, ignoring case.
in.(a,b,c)	Equal to any value in the list. A value cannot contain a comma.
is.null	Blank in the source, or suppressed by the publisher.

Parameter	What it does
select	Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent.
order	field.asc or field.desc, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent.
limit	Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent.
offset	Rows to skip. The next URL in each answer sets it for you.
group	On aggregate, fields to group by, comma-separated.
metric	On aggregate, count, sum.field, avg.field, min.field or max.field, comma-separated. count when absent.
format	json, ndjson or csv. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers.

Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put versions/<date>/ before rows or aggregate for an answer that never changes. /api/v1/datasets/<slug>/versions lists the loaded versions. The 1 newest version is loaded; versions lists them.

The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a Retry-After header, a RateLimit-Policy header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same RateLimit-Policy. A client should wait the Retry-After seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. openapi.json describes this dataset's query paths for client generators and agents.

https://publicdata.au/mcp is a remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP with the same tools, defined in the same place, so a tool added to the pages is added here too. It needs no key and no account. The row tools are held to the query API's limit of 60 queries in 10 seconds from one address, and each call is two queries because it also counts the matching rows. Add it to Claude Code with claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp, add the URL in Claude as a custom connector, or give it to any client that connects to remote MCP servers. Each queryable dataset is also a resource at https://publicdata.au/d/<slug>/fields.json, which lists its fields with their types, the publisher's descriptions, their ranges and the values they hold, so an agent can read a dataset's shape before it writes a query.

What changed

One version for every release the publisher has made since this site started following the dataset. The date is the day the file changed on the portal.

2026-10-02
2,210 rows45 fieldsutf-8-sig2bc63daaf71d

versions.json · changes.json · history.tar.zst (214 KB, every version's Parquet and manifest)

Questions

How do I download NSW government schools as a CSV file?

Open https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-public-schools/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-public-schools/v/2026-10-02/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, GeoJSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, GeoPackage, GeoParquet, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same.

Can I open NSW government schools in Excel?

Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-public-schools/v/2026-10-02/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 2,210 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-public-schools/v/2026-10-02/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size.

What years does NSW government schools cover?

The current version covers 1849 to 2025. Each release from Department of Education becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online.

How often is NSW government schools updated?

Department of Education releases it monthly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes.

Can I use NSW government schools commercially?

Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file.

Is this the official source for NSW government schools?

No. The publisher is NSW Department of Education, and its page is https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-education-nsw-public-schools-master-dataset. This site republishes the publisher's file with one change. The ICSEA value column is left out because ACARA licenses ICSEA for non-commercial educational use only, and the Department has been asked whether its CC BY 4.0 licence covers it. The publisher's own file includes that column, so it is not kept beside each version.

What coordinate system does NSW government schools use?

Latitude and longitude in decimal degrees as published. The Department's data dictionary does not state the datum; GDA94 is the NSW Government's standard and differs from GDA2020 and WGS84 by under 2 metres. The GeoJSON file uses the same coordinates, which is what GeoJSON expects.

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 ICSEA value column is left out because ACARA licenses ICSEA for non-commercial educational use only, and the Department has been asked whether its CC BY 4.0 licence covers it. The publisher's own file includes that column, so it is not kept beside each version.

Attribution and citation

The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used.

NSW Department of Education, NSW Government, Master dataset: NSW government school locations and student enrolment numbers, sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-education-nsw-public-schools-master-dataset, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-public-schools/v/2026-10-02/

The attribution alone is inside every file. Harvard is the author-date form a report or a brief asks for. Paste the HTML on a web page so the links carry.

Licence record

NSW Department of Education states the licence, CC BY 4.0, on its own page, which was read and recorded here on 1 October 2026.

Every fetch reads the licence again and stops when it has changed. The fetch that made version 2026-10-02 read it from data.nsw.gov.au on 3 October 2026.

Also published on

Hugging Faceload_dataset("National-Digital/nsw-public-schools")
Kagglewith a starter notebook
ZenodoDOI 10.5281/zenodo.23123061

Each copy carries the same attribution and links back to this page.

For agents and tools

datapackage.jsonFrictionless data package pointing at the latest version
schema.jsonTable Schema for every field
schema.xlsxthe same field list as an Excel data dictionary
versions.jsonevery version with date, rows, fields and hash
changes.jsondiff for every consecutive pair
manifest.jsonwhere the bytes came from and when
Query APIfiltered rows and counts without a download
openapi.jsonOpenAPI 3.1 for this dataset's query paths
explore/charts and dashboards in the browser, shareable and embeddable
index.mdthis page as Markdown

This page carries a schema.org Dataset record and is listed in /.well-known/ard.json and /catalog.json.

Source

NSW Department of Education publishes this table on data.nsw.gov.au. Questions about the content go to the publisher. Questions about the files here go to corrections.

Fetched 3 October 2026. Source SHA-256 2bc63daaf71d056e…

Improve this dataset

This page is built from register/nsw-public-schools.yaml on GitHub. Anyone can propose a fix to it, such as a clearer description or a field the publisher renamed, as a pull request.

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