NSW Government School Student Headcounts from 2004 to 2025

Annual headcount figures for individual New South Wales government schools, collected each year on the first Friday in August since 2004. The data is published by the NSW Department of Education's Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation. Figures for schools with five or fewer students are suppressed for privacy.

Use Cases

• Analyzing long-term enrolment trends based on the annual time-series data from 2004
• Comparing enrolment changes across individual NSW government schools
• Modeling the impact of demographic shifts on school populations based on headcount figures
• Identifying schools with significant growth or decline in student numbers over the two-decade period

Strengths

• Covers a 22-year time range from 2004 to 2025
• Data is collected annually on a consistent date (first Friday in August)
• Includes a documented suppression rule for privacy (schools with ≤5 students)

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 and institutional bias inherent to NSW government schools only

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Education, Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation

Collection Method

Collected via the National Schools Statistics Collection (NSSC)

Time Range

2004 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-15 19:59:57.606805

Geography

New South Wales, Australia