Current Active Schools in Western Australia for Semester 1, 2026

Western Australian public school locations active for the first semester of the 2026 school year. The dataset is provided by the Government of Western Australia's Department of Education and was last updated in May 2026. It includes shapefile and Excel formats for geospatial and tabular analysis.

Use Cases

• Map school catchment areas based on the provided geospatial location data.
• Analyze the density of active public schools across Western Australia.
• Plan community infrastructure projects based on the distribution of educational facilities.

Strengths

• Data is current for the 2026 school year, as stated in the description.
• Includes both geospatial (SHP) and tabular (XLS) formats for different analysis needs.
• Provided by the authoritative government source, the Department of Education.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, focusing solely on Western Australia.

Provenance

Source

Department of Education, Government of Western Australia

Time Range

Semester 1, 2026

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 21:31:47.409057; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Western Australia, Australia