ACARA Data Access Program
About the program
We collect, analyse and report statistical and related information about schools and the outcomes of schooling, as required by the Education Council under ACARA’s Charter.Our work in this area is undertaken under the Council’s Principles and protocols for reporting on schooling in Australia (2009), which guide and inform the use and publication of data generated in the process of measuring the performance of schooling in Australia.We provide access to the data collected for third parties under the Data Access Protocols – 2015 revision (PDF 218 kb). Please review the Protocols before submitting a data access application.
Data for download
The following data is available to download under the MySchool terms of use.
Please note the 2024 standard products that can be downloaded will be published below on Monday 17 February after the ABS NSSC Schools Australia is released.
- School Profile 2023 (xlsx, 2 MB) List of all Australian schools, enrolments, ICSEA, LBOTE, SEA
- School Profile 2008-2023 (xlsx, 25 MB)
- School Location 2023 (xlsx, 2 MB) List of all Australian schools, Long/Lat, LGA (Users interested in the product may also find the ASL site useful)
- Enrolments by Grade 2023 (xlsx, 2 MB)
- Enrolments by Grade 2008-2023 (xlsx, 28 MB)
Data under application
Please note the 2024 standard products will be available 29 January 2025. Applications for 2024 products can be submitted from 22 January 2025.
The following standard data are available subject to completion of the application form below.
NB: Aggregating school, staff and student counts in the My School School Profile standard products does not always equal values as reported on the National Report on Schooling in Australia data portal, which is sourced from the National Schools Statistics Collection (NSSC). For the My School census collection, some jurisdictions choose to provide education environment centres, multi-campus schools individually, and kindergarten student counts which are out of scope in the NSSC.
Data request application
When submitting a data request, the signatory listed must be authorised to sign a legal document on behalf of your organisation.
The intended purpose of the Data Access Program as per the Data Access Protocols is to facilitate quality research to maximise benefits to students, schools and the Australian community. ACARA will not provide school contact details for the purposes of marketing to, or contacting schools.
Click here to make a data request.
Requesting student NAPLAN reports
ACARA collects de-identified NAPLAN results from the test administration authorities (TAAs) responsible for the administration of NAPLAN in their respective state or territory.
ACARA does not collect individual NAPLAN student reports and are therefore unable to provide them.
If you are a student or parent wanting to obtain NAPLAN reports, please contact your local TAA.
National Report on Schooling data portal
ACARA has an interactive resource, called the National Report on Schooling data portal.
The portal is updated with the most recently available data, providing access to a number of national data sets for schooling relevant to the annual national report on schooling in Australia.
This includes key performance measure data and data on schools and schooling, such as:
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school numbers, student numbers and staff numbers
- student–teacher ratios
- school funding
- teacher education
- Year 12 certification rates.
Visit the National Report on Schooling data portal on the ACARA website.
Enquiries
Queries regarding the Data Access Program can be submitted via the form https://www.acara.edu.au/online-enquiry