NSW Government schools by school type (2001-2023)

Data Notes:

Primary schools enrol students in Kindergarten to Year 6.
Secondary schools generally enrol students in Years 7 to 12, although some secondary schools only enrol students in the senior years, i.e. Years 11 to 12 or the junior years, i.e. Years 7 to 10.
Central/community schools have primary and secondary departments and may be established where there is an enrolment in secondary classes of 20 or more. Enrolments in primary departments and secondary departments are included with the appropriate student data.
Schools for specific purposes (SSPs) are for students with specific needs. Most SSPs have permanent enrolments and include schools for students with intellectual (mild, moderate and severe) and physical disabilities, visual or hearing impairment, behaviour disorders or emotional disturbance, and students in juvenile justice centres. Some SSPs have no permanent enrolments because the children temporarily attending them are enrolled and counted in their own schools. These are mainly hospital schools.

Data Source:

Schools and Students: Statistical Bulletin. Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation.

Data Source:

Data.NSW

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Access resource data via a web API with powerful query support. Further information in the main CKAN Data API and DataStore documentation.

Code examples:

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Querying

Get 5 results containing "jones" in any field:

curl https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search \
  -H"Authorization:$API_TOKEN" -d '
{
  "resource_id": "8bb71131-966c-4103-9627-1e613fe868b9",
  "limit": 5,
  "q": "jones"
}'

const resp = await fetch(`https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search`, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
        'content-type': 'application/json',
        authorization: API_TOKEN
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
        resource_id: '8bb71131-966c-4103-9627-1e613fe868b9',
        limit: 5,
        q: 'jones'
    })
})
await resp.json()

$json = @'
{
  "resource_id": "8bb71131-966c-4103-9627-1e613fe868b9",
  "limit": 5,
  "q": "jones"
}
'@
$response = Invoke-RestMethod https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search`
  -Method Post -Body $json -Headers @{"Authorization"="$API_TOKEN"}
$response.result.records

(using the ckanapi client library)

from ckanapi import RemoteCKAN

rc = RemoteCKAN('https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/', apikey=API_TOKEN)
result = rc.action.datastore_search(
    resource_id="8bb71131-966c-4103-9627-1e613fe868b9",
    limit=5,
    q="jones",
)
print(result['records'])

library(httr2)

req <- request("https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search")
result <- req %>% 
    req_headers(Authorization = API_TOKEN) %>% 
    req_body_json(list(
        resource_id = '8bb71131-966c-4103-9627-1e613fe868b9',
        limit = 5,
        q = 'jones'))
    req_perform %>% 
    resp_body_json

Get results with either "watershed" or "survey" as subject and "active" as its stage:

curl https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search \
-H"Authorization:$API_TOKEN" -d '
{
"resource_id": "8bb71131-966c-4103-9627-1e613fe868b9",
  "filters": {
    "subject": ["watershed", "survey"],
    "stage": "active"
  }
}'

const resp = await fetch(`https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search`, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
        'content-type': 'application/json',
        authorization: API_TOKEN
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({resource_id: '8bb71131-966c-4103-9627-1e613fe868b9', filters: {
        subject: ['watershed', 'survey'],
        stage: 'active'
    }})})
await resp.json()

$json = @'
{
  "resource_id": "8bb71131-966c-4103-9627-1e613fe868b9",
  "filters": {
    "subject": ["watershed", "survey"],
    "stage": "active"
  }
}
'@
$response = Invoke-RestMethod https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search`
  -Method Post -Body $json -Headers @{"Authorization"="$API_TOKEN"}
$response.result.records

from ckanapi import RemoteCKAN

rc = RemoteCKAN('https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/', apikey=API_TOKEN)
result = rc.action.datastore_search(
    resource_id="8bb71131-966c-4103-9627-1e613fe868b9",
    filters={
      "subject": ["watershed", "survey"],
      "stage": "active",
    },
)
print(result['records'])

library(httr2)

req <- request("https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search")
result <- req %>% 
    req_headers(Authorization = API_TOKEN) %>% 
    req_body_json(list(
        resource_id='8bb71131-966c-4103-9627-1e613fe868b9', 
        filters = list(
            subject = list("watershed", "survey"), 
            stage = "active")))
    req_perform %>% 
    resp_body_json

Using the API with this Web Browser

Some API endpoints may be accessed using a GET query string.

Query example (first 5 results)

https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=8bb71131-966c-4103-9627-1e613fe868b9&limit=5

Query example (results containing 'jones')

https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=8bb71131-966c-4103-9627-1e613fe868b9&q=jones

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Field	Value
Title	NSW Government schools by school type (2001-2023)
Date Published	12/02/2017
Last Updated	14/10/2025
Publisher/Agency	NSW Department of Education
Licence	Creative Commons Attribution
Update Frequency	Annually
Contact Point	NSW Department of Education open.data@det.nsw.edu.au
Temporal Coverage	01/01/2001 - 31/12/2023
Geospatial Coverage
Data Portal	Data.NSW