Enrolments (FTE) in NSW government schools from 2014 to 2024, aggregated by Socio-Educational Advantage (SEA) quarters and Statistical Area 4 (SA4) groupings. The data is sourced from April system extracts by the NSW Department of Education's Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation. It replaces previous reporting based on discontinued Department of Education regions with a new geography based on the Australian Statistical Geography Standard.
Use Cases
- Analyzing enrolment trends over time based on the 2014-2024 time series.
- Mapping the distribution of student enrolments across NSW based on SA4 geographical groupings.
- Investigating correlations between socioeconomic advantage (SEA quarters) and school enrolment figures.
- Benchmarking enrolment statistics across different regions and socioeconomic cohorts.
Strengths
- Data covers a 10-year period from 2014 to 2024.
- Uses a standardized geographical structure (ASGS SA4 groupings) for consistent reporting.
- Clarifies and corrects the terminology from 'FOEI quarters' to the accurate 'SEA quarters'.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Enrolments are from April system extracts, not the mid-year census taken in August.
Provenance
- Source
- NSW Department of Education, Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation
- Collection Method
- System extracts taken in April each year.
- Time Range
- 2014-2024
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-22 20:04:06.522297; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- New South Wales, Australia, aggregated into 11 SA4 groups