--- title: State school catchment areas, senior secondary, Queensland resource: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/ publisher: Department of Education licence: CC BY 4.0 licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ version: 2026-04-02 rows: 229 fields: 2 source: https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/b01b50fc-b8ab-4c88-bc4a-34d42930fea8/resource/930ba950-9661-4edb-bb04-8cdfb3305d33/download/senior_secondary_catchments_2026.kml source_sha256: c031b347b4ad33fc3a2bedf368bfecc704e4d11c27178f9d9094d761c16ca58d language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # State school catchment areas, senior secondary, Queensland The senior secondary catchment area of each Queensland state school for the current school year, as polygons. Published by Department of Education under CC BY 4.0 and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Department of Education has not endorsed this site. Also called: Queensland state high school catchment boundaries Years 11 and 12, Queensland senior secondary school zones. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/v/2026-04-02/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/latest/data.csv (39 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/latest/data.xlsx (14 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/latest/data.json (46 KB) - geojson: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/latest/data.geojson (11 MB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/latest/data.parquet (3.3 MB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/latest/data.sqlite (66 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/latest/data.duckdb (100 KB) - gpkg: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/latest/data.gpkg (6.8 MB) - pmtiles: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/latest/data.pmtiles (1.0 MB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/latest/data.ndjson (46 KB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/latest/data.arrow (10 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/latest/data.csv.gz (3.8 KB) Pinned version 2026-04-02: `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/v/2026-04-02/data.`. Dated versions never change. ## Query 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. Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/rows?limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/aggregate?metric=count 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`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`. - `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//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets//versions` lists the loaded versions. 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 for this dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `name` | string | Name | | | `description` | string | Description | The publisher's HTML table giving the centre name and centre code, kept as published. | ## Versions - 2026-04-02: 229 rows, 2 fields, sha256 c031b347b4ad. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/v/2026-04-02/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/history.tar.zst ## Part of Queensland schools: locations, enrolments and catchments - [State and non-state school details, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-details/) - [State school enrolments by school and year level, February census, Queensland 2015 to 2019](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-state-school-enrolments-february/) - [State school catchment areas, junior secondary, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-junior-secondary/) - [State school catchment areas, primary, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-primary/) ## Same subject, other publishers - [High school intake zones, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-school-intake-zones-secondary/) (NSW) - [Government high school zones, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-high-school-zones/) (SA) - [Primary school intake zones, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-school-intake-zones-primary/) (NSW) - [Future school intake zones, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-school-intake-zones-future/) (NSW) - [Government primary school zones, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-primary-school-zones/) (SA) - [Full-time equivalent enrolments in government schools by school type, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-school-enrolments-by-type/) (SA) - [NSW government schools, locations and enrolments](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-public-schools/) (NSW) - [Public school term dates, New South Wales, 2019 to 2025](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-school-term-dates/) (NSW) - [Average class sizes in government primary schools by year, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-primary-class-sizes/) (NSW) ## Attribution and citation Department of Education, Queensland Government, Queensland state schools - geographic information, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/queensland-state-schools-geographic-information, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: Department of Education, Queensland Government, Queensland state schools - geographic information, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/queensland-state-schools-geographic-information, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/v/2026-04-02/ Harvard: Department of Education (2026) State school catchment areas, senior secondary, Queensland, version 2026-04-02 [data set], CC BY 4.0, sourced 3 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/v/2026-04-02/ Markdown: Data: [Queensland schools: locations, enrolments and catchments](https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/queensland-state-schools-geographic-information), Department of Education, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/v/2026-04-02/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download State school catchment areas, senior secondary as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/v/2026-04-02/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, GeoJSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, GeoPackage, PMTiles, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open State school catchment areas, senior secondary in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/v/2026-04-02/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 229 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/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary/v/2026-04-02/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### How often is State school catchment areas, senior secondary updated? Education releases it each school year. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use State school catchment areas, senior secondary 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 State school catchment areas, senior secondary? No. The publisher is Department of Education, and its page is https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/queensland-state-schools-geographic-information. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.kml with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### What coordinate system does State school catchment areas, senior secondary use? KML coordinates are WGS84 (EPSG:4326). They are moved to GDA2020 for publication. The GeoJSON file uses GDA2020 as well, which differs from the WGS84 GeoJSON expects by well under a metre. ### What is in each row? Each row is the catchment area of one Queensland state school for senior secondary students (Years 11 and 12), with the school's name, the publisher's description text and the boundary as a polygon. ### Where is the school code? The publisher puts the centre name and centre code in an HTML table inside the description of each area. The text is kept as published in the description field. ### Does living in a catchment guarantee a place? The department's enrolment management rules give students living in a school's catchment an entitlement to enrol there. Check the school's own enrolment management plan for the rules that apply. ## What this site did to the data Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.kml`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/qld-school-catchments-senior-secondary.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.