Full-time apparent retention rate in NSW government schools by level of schooling and gender (2001-2023)

The full-time apparent retention rate (ARR) measures the proportion of a cohort of full-time students that moves from one grade to the next, based on an expected rate of progression of one grade per year. It does not track individual students through their final years of secondary schooling.

Data Notes:

The ARR is the ratio of the total number of full-time school students in a designated year (e.g. Year 12 in 2014) divided by the total number of full-time students in a previous year (e.g. Year 7 in 2009). This would be the Year 7 to 12 apparent retention rate in 2014.
From 2020, students in mainstream support classes (previously excluded from this table) are reported by their underlying grade of enrolment. This has resulted in an increase in apparent retention rates across all years. As a result, data from 2020 onwards is not directly comparable to previous years.
With the New School Leaving Age legislation coming into effect in January 2010, the Year 12 cohort in 2012 is the first group of students who were required to complete Year 10. This means that the Year 10 enrolment figure was higher than in previous years, resulting in a relative decline in Year 10 to Year 12 apparent retention in 2012, despite the Year 7 to Year 12 apparent retention rate increasing slightly.
All enrolments are reported in full-time equivalent units, and include full-time and part-time students. Students enrolled in distance education classes are included with their appropriate grade levels.
ARRs can exceed 100 per cent due to factors including student migration from interstate and overseas and between school sectors.
Retention Rates are ‘apparent’ as they do not track individual students through their final years of secondary schooling.

Data Source:

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

Data Source:

Data.NSW

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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": "faa3ecd2-a90c-4919-8bff-1c143f89b905",
  "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: 'faa3ecd2-a90c-4919-8bff-1c143f89b905',
        limit: 5,
        q: 'jones'
    })
})
await resp.json()

$json = @'
{
  "resource_id": "faa3ecd2-a90c-4919-8bff-1c143f89b905",
  "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="faa3ecd2-a90c-4919-8bff-1c143f89b905",
    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 = 'faa3ecd2-a90c-4919-8bff-1c143f89b905',
        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": "faa3ecd2-a90c-4919-8bff-1c143f89b905",
  "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: 'faa3ecd2-a90c-4919-8bff-1c143f89b905', filters: {
        subject: ['watershed', 'survey'],
        stage: 'active'
    }})})
await resp.json()

$json = @'
{
  "resource_id": "faa3ecd2-a90c-4919-8bff-1c143f89b905",
  "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="faa3ecd2-a90c-4919-8bff-1c143f89b905",
    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='faa3ecd2-a90c-4919-8bff-1c143f89b905', 
        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=faa3ecd2-a90c-4919-8bff-1c143f89b905&limit=5

Query example (results containing 'jones')

https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=faa3ecd2-a90c-4919-8bff-1c143f89b905&q=jones

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Field	Value
Title	Full-time apparent retention rate in NSW government schools by level of schooling and gender (2001-2023)
Date Published	12/02/2017
Last Updated	06/11/2024
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