Data Notes: Based on school of tuition, NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) developed courses only, and includes subjects studied through distance education, the NSW School of Languages and Aurora College. Data derived from NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Life Skills courses are a commitment to extend the curriculum and reporting arrangements that were established for the School Certificate to HSC students with special education needs. Each Life Skills course comprises a 2 Unit Preliminary course and a 2 Unit HSC course. There are no external examinations for Life Skills courses. In 2023, the Total columns include non-binary students. These students are unable to be reported separately due to system limitations. Data Source: Schools and Students: Statistical Bulletin. Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation.

This dataset shows the student headcount for each individual NSW government school since 2004. Data Notes: National Schools Statistics Collection (NSSC) enrolments collected as at the first Friday in August every year. All NSSC enrolments are headcount figures for NSW government schools only. Where a school had 5 or fewer students, the figure has been suppressed. A null figure indicates no enrolments were collected for NSSC in the given calendar year. Data Source: Statistics Unit. Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation.

These datasets contain information about current and former government schools in NSW since 1848. Data notes: Schools that operated as various types of schools have multiple entries. Schools with more than one name are listed under the most recent name of the school. The name of each school starts with the main part of their name. Words like The, or Upper, or North are treated as subsidiary. Schools with the same name are distinguished by numbers. They are numbered according to the date at which the school first used the name. An entry for a half-time school generally identifies a partner schools under its latest name. This dataset may not include the latest changes in the status of schools. For further information about this dataset, please refer to the glossary of school types and database facts from the history of government schools website. Data source: Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation. NSW Department of Education.

This dataset provides information on the number of international students enrolled in NSW public schools, categorised by operational directorate. Data notes: Data is sourced through the DE International Student Management System. International students must hold a student visa and require an Authority to Enrol (ATE) form, issued by DE International, to enrol in a NSW public school. Enrolment numbers are not representative of the number of students in the International Students Program, as a student may enrol in an Intensive English Centre and then proceed to a high school. Total enrolments include full fee-paying students in the International Students Program who complete their high school education in a NSW government school, and Study Abroad program students who enrol from one term to a maximum of one year. All international students and Study Abroad students are able to commence their study from Term 1 through to Term 4. Data has been confidentialised where necessary to suppress international student enrolments of 15 or fewer students in an operational directorate, indicated by “sp”. An operational directorate oversees groups of principal networks in which schools are organised. For more information, visit the most up-to-date operational directorate list. Data source: DE International, Community Languages and International Programs, Student Support and Specialist Programs, Teaching Learning and Student Wellbeing, NSW Department of Education.

This dataset includes the number of enrolments in NSW government schools from 1848 to 2023. Data Notes: Since 1993, some students have enrolled part-time. All enrolments are reported in full-time equivalent (FTE) units and include full-time and part-time students. Student enrolments are rounded to the nearest whole number. From 1881 to 1907, primary enrolments relate to students undertaking ordinary public school courses. However, post-primary pupils in superior public schools are included in the primary figures. Primary correspondence school (later distance education centres) pupils are also included from 1938, and the school of the air pupils from 1976. From 1938, post-primary enrolments relate to student undertaking post-primary courses in high, intermediate high, district, junior high, central, superior public schools and correspondence school (later distance education centres). Pupils undertaking post- primary courses in small primary schools are also included. Evening continuation school pupils are not included. For the period from 1881 to 1907 it has not been possible to isolate the number of post-primary pupils in superior public schools and consequently they are included under primary enrolments. This is the reason for the large jump in post-primary enrolments in 1908. From 1962 to 1983, all pupils in special schools or classes (except those in some community care schools who were not counted until 1981) are included as appropriate in the primary or post-primary figures and in the total. Since 1984, students in Schools for Special Purposes have been counted separately. Prior to 1962 it was difficult to ascertain if these pupils are included. Children in hospital schools and schools for the physically and intellectually disabled are sometimes included in the primary figures during the late 1950s, but physically and intellectually disabled children in special classes in ordinary schools are included from the late 1940s. The enrolment figures between 1848 to 1918 are for the December quarter, with those for 1848 to 1851 and 1866 being estimates. From 1919 the annual census figures are used resulting in a sharp drop in primary and rise in post-primary enrolments in 1919. Pupils from the ACT are included until 1973, at which date they numbered 30,457. Data source: Schools and Students: Statistical Bulletin. Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation.

This dataset provides the NSW Department of Education’s Heritage Conservation Register, in accordance with s170 of the NSW Heritage Act 1977. Places inscribed on this register are of Local or State heritage significance. Data is current as at 25 May 2025. Data notes: · Many of the state's heritage items are owned or managed by NSW Government agencies. · Under Section 170 of the NSW Heritage Act 1977, all state government agencies must keep and administer a database of heritage assets called a Section 170 Heritage and Conservation Register. This register serves as an essential tool for making decisions about maintaining, conserving and making changes to heritage assets. • The department’s Section 170 Heritage and Conservation Register complies with the requirements outlined in the Heritage Regulation 2012 (401). It is co-hosted on the Heritage Management System managed by Heritage NSW. • This register is constantly being updated, and enquiries should be made to ascertain amended information. • Further details about individual heritage listed places can also be found on the State Heritage Inventory on the Heritage NSW website, which has a searchable database. ** Data source:** Heritage, Planning and Assessments, Operations Group, SINSW, Department of Education.

This mid-year annual statistical publication presents a brief update of tables and charts about NSW schools and students before the release of the major school and students publications. Data is from the census of both government and non-government students, undertaken in August each year. Data source: Statistical publications. Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation.

This data set contains Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4) information on all NSW Government schools, including schools that have received a status of ‘Not operational’ since 2010. Data Notes: List includes schools that are currently open or haven't been operational since 2010. Status "Other" may refer to school who have gone through a merger/demerger process. Not Operational includes schools that: on that year had the last teacher withdrawn. have entered in recess, but may still reopen in the future. Year refers to the year the last teacher was withdrawn, not actual dates that the schools were gazetted as closed following Ministerial decisions. SA4 refers to the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 3 Statistical Area 4 (SA4) - 2021. Data source: Education Statistics and Measurement, Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation.

Data notes Data is collected mid-year (census date: first Friday in August) from NSW government schools as per National Schools Statistics Collection (NSCC). All primary school students are considered to be full-time. From 2020, students in mainstream support classes are reported by their underlying grade of enrolment. Previously, students in support classes in mainstream schools were not included. Students in schools for specific purposes (SSPs) are not included. Students in distance education and Opportunity Classes (OC) are included with their appropriate grade levels. In most scholastic years there are a small number of students in atypical age groups. These have been included in the nearest band. This is indicated with an asterisk. As a result, the sum of each row may not equal the totals reported. See the relevant tables in the Statistical Bulletin for more details. Data source Schools and Students: Statistical Bulletin. Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation.