From school to career — the whole path, one place
Every Australian school, the specialist programs and catchment zone it sits in, the universities & TAFEs beyond it, and the careers they lead to — pay, job growth and how to get there. Built entirely from open government data.
Specialist & excellence schools
Specialist and excellence programs run in schools most families never hear about. We hold a tag for 185 of them — 184 government and 1 independent — and they are nothing like evenly spread, so we lead with what we actually hold. 138 — 75% — are in Academic (Selective): 133 in NSW, 4 in VIC and 1 in QLD. The NSW rows are two flags from one feed — 48 it labels selective and 87 it flags as running an Opportunity Class, which no other state publishes. The other 5 are select-entry schools we recorded by hand in VIC & QLD. After that the numbers fall away fast: 14 in Sport Excellence, 11 in Creative & Performing Arts and 11 in STEM & Technology, then Languages & Immersion, Agriculture and Marine & Environmental, down to Aviation & Aerospace, Music and Health & Medical Sciences — one school each.
School → Uni & TAFE → Career
The whole pathway in one place: 10,059 schools, 1,539 universities, TAFEs & colleges, and 358 careers with pay, job growth and the study route to each.
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Wagga Wagga NSW
25 schools · 6 activities
CAI 60 · top 41% of suburbsSouthport QLD
9 schools · 20 activities
CAI 56 · top 45% of suburbsFerntree Gully VIC
9 schools · 17 activities
CAI 60 · top 41% of suburbsToowoomba QLD
21 schools · 5 activities
Werribee VIC
18 schools · 6 activities
CAI 34 · bottom 33% of suburbsRingwood VIC
7 schools · 16 activities
CAI 79 · top 21% of suburbsAdelaide SA
15 schools · 8 activities
CAI 93 · top 7% of suburbsBlacktown NSW
19 schools · 3 activities
CAI 44 · bottom 44% of suburbsMelbourne VIC
7 schools · 15 activities
CAI 97 · top 4% of suburbsCoburg VIC
10 schools · 11 activities
CAI 92 · top 8% of suburbsCaringbah NSW
9 schools · 11 activities
CAI 81 · top 19% of suburbsMosman NSW
9 schools · 11 activities
CAI 100 · top 1% of suburbsCAI = Community Advantage Index. "CAI 88 · top 12% of suburbs" means this suburb sits in the top 12% of Australian suburbs we hold a figure for (14,490 of them) on our ABS-SEIFA measure. Below the halfway mark we say so plainly: a CAI of 12 reads "bottom 11% of suburbs", never the flattering-sounding "top 90%" that the same count produces read the other way round. It describes the area, never a school. How it is calculated ▸
What is this?
A research prototype over a local-first knowledge graph connecting schools, universities & TAFEs, and careers — built only from free, openly-licensed government data with a transparent, published method and no paid placement. See Sources & licences for every dataset and its terms, and How our numbers work for what each figure can and cannot tell you.
What the Community Advantage Index actually is
The Community Advantage Index (CAI) is our own estimate, derived from ABS SEIFA 2021. It is a percentile, not a mark out of 100: we rank every one of the 14,490 Australian suburbs the ABS scores, and a suburb's CAI is where it lands in that queue. A CAI of 90 means the suburb sits in the top 10% of Australian suburbs; a CAI of 10 sits in the bottom 9% of Australian suburbs; a CAI of 50 means about half the country's suburbs are above it. It describes the suburb a school sits in — its residents' education and occupations — and says nothing about the school, its teaching or its results. It is not ICSEA and not an official figure. Read the method ▸