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Explore NSW government schools, locations and enrolments

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The explorer needs JavaScript and a browser from the last few years. The dataset page has every file and the query API.

Data: 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. Licence terms.

How it works

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Download what you see

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What the fields mean

The explorer names each field in words. The files and the query API use the field name beside it.

In the explorer	Field name	Type	Note
School code	school_code	integer
Commonwealth location ID (AGE ID)	ageid	integer
School name	school_name	string
Street	street	string
Town suburb	town_suburb	string
Postcode	postcode	string
Phone	phone	string
School email	school_email	string
Website	website	string
Fax	fax	string
Enrolments (FTE, latest year)	latest_year_enrolment_fte	number	Full-time equivalent enrolments as reported to the ABS National Schools Statistics Collection, as at August.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students (%)	indigenous_pct	integer	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.
Language background other than English (%)	lbote_pct	integer	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	level_of_schooling	string
Selective school	selective_school	string
Opportunity class	opportunity_class	boolean
School specialty type	school_specialty_type	string
School subtype	school_subtype	string
Preschool ind	preschool_ind	boolean
Distance education	distance_education	string
Intensive english centre	intensive_english_centre	boolean
School gender	school_gender	string
Late opening school	late_opening_school	boolean
Date first teacher on duty	date_1st_teacher	date	The date the first teacher was on duty, which the Department treats as the date the school opened.
Council area	lga	string
State electorate from 2023	electorate_from_2023	string
State electorate 2015 to 2022	electorate_2015_2022	string
Federal electorate from 2025	fed_electorate_from_2025	string
Federal electorate 2016 to 2024	fed_electorate_2016_2024	string
Operational directorate	operational_directorate	string
Principal network	principal_network	string
Operational directorate office	operational_directorate_office	string
Operational directorate office phone	operational_directorate_office_phone	string
Operational directorate office address	operational_directorate_office_address	string
FACS district	facs_district	string
Local health district	local_health_district	string
AECG region	aecg_region	string
Remoteness (ASGS 2016)	asgs_remoteness	string
Latitude	latitude	number	As published. The Department's data dictionary does not state the datum.
Longitude	longitude	number	As published. The Department's data dictionary does not state the datum.
Assets unit	assets_unit	string
SA4	sa4	string
FOEI value	foei_value	number	Family Occupation and Education Index, the Department's school-level index of educational disadvantage. A higher value means more disadvantage.
Date extracted	date_extracted	date	The night the file was extracted. Fields come from different update cycles, so not every field was refreshed on this date.
Support classes	support_classes	string

How it runs

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