Teacher Vacancies and Cancelled Classes in New South Wales Public Schools

Data from the NSW Department of Education, last updated on 2026-03-17, provides metrics on teacher workforce and class continuity. It includes the count of vacant permanent teaching positions on the first day of Term 1 and the daily percentage of lessons requiring alternative supervision in NSW public schools. The dataset is released under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling teacher workforce shortages based on vacant position counts.
• Analyzing school operational disruptions based on the percentage of lessons requiring alternative supervision.
• Benchmarking school performance and resource allocation across the NSW public system.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative NSW Department of Education.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Provides two specific, policy-relevant indicators for workforce and operations.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and temporal coverage are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Education

Collection Method

Likely administrative data collected from NSW public schools.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 21:30:42.966131.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia