Full-time equivalent (FTE) enrolments in NSW government and non-government schools (1901-2022)

The data shows the change in enrolments of government and non-government schools in each year since 2011, and selected years from 1901.

** Data Notes**

Government and non-government school data for 1901-1961 include students in ACT schools.
From 1993 the table includes full-time and part-time students, reported in full-time equivalent units (FTE). FTE 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.
For further information visit Schools: InBrief Mid-Year Census produced by the Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation.

** Data Source:**

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Schools Australia.

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": "2d998d85-924b-4ace-847f-dc08693afddb",
  "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: '2d998d85-924b-4ace-847f-dc08693afddb',
        limit: 5,
        q: 'jones'
    })
})
await resp.json()

$json = @'
{
  "resource_id": "2d998d85-924b-4ace-847f-dc08693afddb",
  "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="2d998d85-924b-4ace-847f-dc08693afddb",
    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 = '2d998d85-924b-4ace-847f-dc08693afddb',
        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": "2d998d85-924b-4ace-847f-dc08693afddb",
  "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: '2d998d85-924b-4ace-847f-dc08693afddb', filters: {
        subject: ['watershed', 'survey'],
        stage: 'active'
    }})})
await resp.json()

$json = @'
{
  "resource_id": "2d998d85-924b-4ace-847f-dc08693afddb",
  "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="2d998d85-924b-4ace-847f-dc08693afddb",
    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='2d998d85-924b-4ace-847f-dc08693afddb', 
        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=2d998d85-924b-4ace-847f-dc08693afddb&limit=5

Query example (results containing 'jones')

https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=2d998d85-924b-4ace-847f-dc08693afddb&q=jones

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Field	Value
Title	Full-time equivalent (FTE) enrolments in NSW government and non-government schools (1901-2022)
Date Published	11/02/2017
Last Updated	14/10/2025
Publisher/Agency	NSW Department of Education
Licence	Creative Commons Attribution
Contact Point	NSW Department of Education open.data@det.nsw.edu.au
Temporal Coverage	01/01/1901 - 31/12/2022
Geospatial Coverage
Data Portal	Data.NSW