Sources & licences
Everything here is built from free, openly-licensed data. Each dataset below is used under the terms shown, with attribution. We publish our own derived indicators (clearly labelled as estimates) but never republish restricted data.
What we never publish: ACARA My School performance data — NAPLAN results and ICSEA comparison/league tables. ICSEA is held only for private validation of our open-data Community Advantage Index and never appears on any page. Our indices are not ICSEA and not official figures.
Schools
| Dataset | Publisher | Licence | |
|---|---|---|---|
| NSW Public Schools Master Dataset | NSW Department of Education | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| VIC School Locations 2025 (all sectors) | Victorian Department of Education | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| ACARA Australian Schools List (ASL) — national, all sectors | Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| NSW Registered Non-Government Schools (NESA) | NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| QLD State School Catchment Areas 2026 (KML) | Queensland Department of Education | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| QLD State and Non-State School Details (all sectors) | Queensland Department of Education | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| SA Government Preschool and School Sites (2023) | South Australian Department for Education | CC BY 3.0 AU | source ▸ |
| ACT School Location 2026 (all sectors) | ACT Government | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| NT School List (all sectors) | NT Department of Education | CC BY 3.0 AU | source ▸ |
| Western Australian Schools List (all sectors) | WA Department of Education | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| TAS DECYP Schools (theLIST) | Tasmanian Department for Education, Children and Young People / Land Tasmania | CC BY 3.0 AU | source ▸ |
| NSW School Intake Zones (catchment areas) | NSW Department of Education | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| SA Government Primary School Zones (2023 EY) | Department for Education (South Australia) | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| SA Government High School Zones (2023 EY) | Department for Education (South Australia) | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| ACT Priority Enrolment Areas 2026 | ACT Government (ACTmapi) | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| DoE School Intake Areas 2024 (Tasmania) | Department for Education, Children and Young People (Tasmania) / Land Tasmania | CC BY 3.0 AU | source ▸ |
| Victorian Government School Zones 2026 | Department of Education (Victoria) — Infrastructure and Planning Branch, via DataVic | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
Community Advantage (SEIFA)
| Dataset | Publisher | Licence | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABS Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) 2021 — Suburbs & Localities | Australian Bureau of Statistics | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
Outcomes (Census, attendance, destinations)
| Dataset | Publisher | Licence | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABS Census 2021 General Community Profile (G16 Highest Year of School Completed), Suburbs & Localities | Australian Bureau of Statistics | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| SA Enrolments by School (time series 2009–2024) | South Australian Department for Education | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| VIC All Schools FTE Enrolments — February 2025 census (all sectors) | Department of Education (Victoria) — Performance and Evaluation Division, via DataVic | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| VIC All Schools FTE Enrolments — February 2020 census (all sectors) | Department of Education (Victoria), via DataVic | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| QLD state school full-time enrolments by school and year level — February census 2015–2019 | Queensland Department of Education | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| QLD non-state school full-time enrolments by year level — February census (2022–2026) | Queensland Department of Education (data compiled by the Non-State Schools Accreditation Board) | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| VIC On Track Survey — Year-12 completer destinations (by school) | Victorian Department of Education | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| NSW Student attendance rate by individual government school (2011–2024) | NSW Department of Education | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| SA Attendance rate by school — Semester 1, government schools (2014–2023) | Department for Education (South Australia) | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
Kids activities
| Dataset | Publisher | Licence | |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenStreetMap via Overpass API | OpenStreetMap contributors | ODbL 1.0 | source ▸ |
Universities & TAFE
| Dataset | Publisher | Licence | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS) — locations | Australian Government Department of Education | CC BY 2.5 AU | source ▸ |
Careers & occupations
| Dataset | Publisher | Licence | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jobs and Skills Australia — Occupation profiles data | Jobs and Skills Australia (Commonwealth) | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| Jobs and Skills Australia — Employment Projections (May 2025 to May 2035) | Jobs and Skills Australia (Commonwealth) | CC BY 4.0 | source ▸ |
| CRICOS — courses (field of education per course) | Australian Government Department of Education | CC BY 2.5 AU | source ▸ |
What we deliberately exclude
- ACARA My School (NAPLAN, ICSEA, enrolments) — ACARA Terms of Use prohibit republishing My School content on any public website, prohibit commercial use, and specifically prohibit building comparative school-performance lists. NAPLAN/ICSEA comparison — the most monetisable layer — is legally unavailable. Only ICSEA values already redistributed under state CC BY datasets are touched, and only for local analysis (see field_sensitivity above).
- Google Places API — Places policy forbids pre-fetching/caching/storing place content except place_id. Usable for live lookups + mandatory Google attribution, but you cannot own/republish the dataset. Not a graph backbone.
- ActiveActivities / Kidspot / commercial directories — Terms prohibit copying/commercial reuse; compilation copyright + Privacy Act exposure under AU law. Build the activities dataset from open sources + owner-submitted listings instead.
Our derived indicators
- Community Advantage Index (CAI) — our estimate of an area's socio-educational advantage from ABS SEIFA (education + occupation). It is a national percentile over 14,490 suburbs, not a mark out of 100: a suburb on 90 sits in the top 10% of Australian suburbs, and one on 10 in the bottom 9% of Australian suburbs. A legal, open-data analogue to school context, describing the suburb and not the school. Not ICSEA. Method ▸
- School score — a transparent, re-weightable blend of Advantage, area Year-12 attainment, attendance and (VIC) university destinations. Not a quality ranking.
- Value-add — attendance relative to what an area's advantage predicts ("punching above its postcode").
- Job outlook — derived from JSA's 5-year projected employment growth.
- Study pathways — indicative occupation → field-of-education → provider matches from the CRICOS course register.