High School Locations in New South Wales, Australia

Spatial Services provides a point dataset of high schools across New South Wales, Australia, updated to the GDA2020 geodetic standard. The data includes both public and private institutions catering to students aged 12 to 18. Feature positions are mapped within cadastral parcels and were captured from sources at scales ranging from 1:500 to 1:250,000.

Use Cases

• Map the distribution of high schools based on the point feature data.
• Analyze public service accessibility based on the location of education facilities.
• Integrate school locations into broader community infrastructure planning based on the 'Features of Interest' category.

Strengths

• Updated to the GDA2020 geodetic standard, improving positional accuracy and compatibility.
• Explicitly includes both public and private high schools.
• Data capture accuracy is defined by the National Mapping Council of Australia standards.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW.

Collection Method

Captured historically as part of the NSW topographic mapping program from provider files.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 19:44:53.065286; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.