Primary Schools in New South Wales as Point Features in GDA2020

New South Wales primary school locations are provided as a point feature dataset. The data is part of the NSW Features of Interest Category, managed by Spatial Services, and was initially published on 29/09/2021. It includes both public and private primary schools catering to children aged 5 to 12.

Use Cases

• Map school catchment areas based on point locations within cadastral parcels.
• Analyze spatial equity in primary education access based on school locations.
• Integrate school point data with demographic or land-use datasets for community planning.

Strengths

• Data aligns with the national GDA2020 geodetic standard, improving accuracy and compatibility.
• Positional accuracy is defined per the National Mapping Council of Australia standards, ranging from 1:500 to 1:250,000 scale.
• Explicitly includes both public and private primary schools.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data currency date is listed as 01/01/3000, which is likely a placeholder and obscures actual freshness.

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 using the best available source data.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-23 06:33:46.238822; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia