Education - Locations & Insights - Australia

# Australian Education Data: Locations, Schools, and Insights

Education - Locations & Insights - Australia data listing includes data sets from several Australian organisations that have made their data freely available under Creative Commons licencing.

The following details the data providers and their data sets.

## Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)

The Australian Schools List is provided by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. It can be used to search for a particular school, or browse the full list of schools throughout Australia.

In order to operate, schools must be registered with the respective school registration authority in each state or territory. ACARA has obtained the list from all 14 school registration authorities in Australia in order to create the Australian Schools List. This list provides an update of all schools and campuses in Australia. It also includes school location, school type and school sector attributes.

**Schemas available:**

- EDUCATION_AUS_FREE contains all tables for the Education - Locations & Insights - Australia listing

**Tables available:**

- ACARA_AUSTRALIAN_SCHOOLS_LIST

**The table contains:**

- SCHOOL_NAME - the registered name of the school
- GEOM- the geometry field for the latitude and longitude
- LATITUDE
- LONGITUDE
- Address fields (SUBURB, STATE, POSTCODE)
- SECTOR - Government or Non-Government
- STATUS - Open or not
- GEOLOCATION - Indicator whether the school is metro or regional
- PARENT_SCHOOL_ID - a link to a parent school. If not parent, it links to itself

## Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS)

CRICOS is the official list of all Australian education providers that offer courses to people studying in Australia on student visas and the courses offered. This listing is a snapshot of the CRICOS.

See: https://cricos.education.gov.au/default.aspx

**Schemas available:**

- EDUCATION_AUS_FREE contains all tables for the Education - Locations & Insights - Australia listing

**Tables available:**

- CRICOS_INSTITUTIONS - A distinct list of institutions
- CRICOS_LOCATION - All locations for each institution

The tables contain name, type and address information. No geospatial representations are available on these tables