National-Digital/nsw-primary-class-sizes

Average class sizes in government primary schools by year, New South Wales

The average class size in NSW government primary schools for each grade from Kindergarten to Year 6, for each year the Department has reported since 1997.

This is a copy of the 2024-06-13 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, where it has 26 rows and 9 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-primary-class-sizes/v/2024-06-13/ in 9 formats, with every earlier version and a query API.

Attribution

The data is published by NSW Department of Education under CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The licence requires this attribution:

NSW Department of Education, NSW Government, Average government primary school class sizes by year, sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-education-average-government-primary-school-class-sizes-by-year, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

To cite this version, including where it was serialised:

NSW Department of Education, NSW Government, Average government primary school class sizes by year, sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-education-average-government-primary-school-class-sizes-by-year, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-primary-class-sizes/v/2024-06-13/

This is an independent republication. The publisher has not endorsed this site.

Versions

publicdata.au keeps a new version each time the publisher changes the source file, and lists them all at https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-primary-class-sizes/versions.json. This repository tags each version it holds as v<date>, so load_dataset("National-Digital/nsw-primary-class-sizes", revision="v2024-06-13") always returns these rows.

Query it without downloading

The publicdata.au query API filters and totals the newest version of this dataset and needs no key:

https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/nsw-primary-class-sizes/rows?limit=10

Fields

Field	Type	Description
year	integer	Year
kindergarten	number	K
year_1	number	Year 1
year_2	number	Year 2
year_3	number	Year 3
year_4	number	Year 4
year_5	number	Year 5
year_6	number	Year 6
k_to_6	number	K-6

publicdata.json beside the data names the version, licence, attribution and the SHA-256 of the publisher's file it was built from.