Master dataset: NSW government school locations and student enrolment numbers

Published by NSW Department of Education

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Summary

New South Wales school locations and enrolments data.

Description

The master dataset contains comprehensive information for all government schools in NSW. Data items include school locations, latitude and longitude coordinates, school type, student enrolment numbers, electorate information, contact details and more. This dataset is publicly available through the Data NSW website, and is used to support the School Finder tool. Data Notes: * Data relating to healthy canteen is no longer up to date as it is no longer updated by the Department, this data can be sourced through NSW health. * Student enrolment numbers are based on the census of government school students undertaken on the first Friday of August; and LBOTE numbers are based on data collected in March. * School information, such as addresses and contact details, are updated regularly as required, and are the most current source of information. * Data is suppressed for indigenous and LBOTE percentages where student numbers are equal to, or less than five indicated by "np". * NSSC out of scope schools will not have an enrolment figure. * NSSC and LBOTE figures are updated annually in December. * ICSEA values are updated every February with the previous year's ICSEA values. Small schools, SSPs and Senior Secondary schools do not have their ICSEA values published by ACARA. * Family Occupation and Educational Index (FOEI) is a school-level index of educational disadvantage. Data is extracted in May and values are updated annually in December. * Following the introduction of part-time study in secondary schools in 1993, student enrolments are generally reported in full-time equivalent units (FTE). The FTE for students studying less than 10 units, the minimum workload, is determined by the formula: 0.1 x the number of units studied and represented as a proportion of the full-time enrolment of 1.0 FTE. Data Source: * Education Statistics and Measurement. Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation.

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NSW public schools master dataset

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NSW public schools master dataset (JSON)

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Data dictionary

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Metadata

Last Updated
10 Mar 2026
Created
12 Feb 2017
Source Portal
Nsw

Dublin Core Metadata

Publisher
NSW Department of Education
Creator
NSW Department of Education
Type
Dataset
Language
eng
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution
Spatial Coverage
New South Wales, Australia
Temporal Coverage
12 Feb 2017 – 10 Mar 2026
Related Resources
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/78c10ea3-8d04-4c9c-b255-bbf8547e37e7/resource/3e6d5f6a-055c-440d-a690-fc0537c31095/download/master_dataset.csv, https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/78c10ea3-8d04-4c9c-b255-bbf8547e37e7/resource/b0026f18-2f23-4837-968c-959e5fb3311d/download/collections.json, https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/78c10ea3-8d04-4c9c-b255-bbf8547e37e7/resource/2464b669-1d48-439e-9e7c-cb8a229f5462/download/master-dataset-data-dictionary.csv
Subjects
aboriginal-education, disability-education, educational-leadership, government-schools, language-background-other-than-english, level-school

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