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Our verified data on Australian private schools, available as CSV downloads. Use freely for media, research + analysis with attribution. CC BY 4.0 licensed.
Datasets
4 datasets, all CSV, all free
Australian private schools master directory 2026
215 rows
Complete directory of 215 Australian private + independent schools with verified 2026 fees + cohort data. Sourced from each school's published fee schedule + ACARA MySchool ICSEA register.
Fields
name · slug · city · suburb · sector · gender · year levels · ICSEA · founded year · Year 7 + Year 12 + boarding fees 2026 (AUD) · religion
Suggested citation
Compare Private Schools, "Australian private schools master directory 2026", https://compareprivateschools.com.au/, 2026.
Australian private school fee history 2018-2026
207 rows
Year 12 tuition fee history for 207 Australian private schools across 9 years. 10 schools have full verified chains from school annual reports; remainder are ABS Cat 6401.0 secondary-education sub-index applied backwards from each school's verified 2026 fee.
Fields
school slug · school name · city · sector · Year 12 fee for each year 2018-2026 (AUD) · verified flag (true if fully verified, false if ABS-indexed estimate)
Suggested citation
Compare Private Schools, "Australian private school fee inflation 2018–2026", https://compareprivateschools.com.au/fee-inflation/, 2026. Verified data from school annual reports + published fee schedules; estimates derived from ABS Cat 6401.0.
Australian private school Year 12 ATAR outcomes
46 rows
Year 12 ATAR outcomes for 46 Australian private schools where Better Education publishes data. Sourced from Better Education's state ATAR rankings, joined to our school directory by city + name with confidence threshold.
Fields
school slug · school name · city · state credential (HSC/VCE/QCE/SACE/WACE) · median ATAR · % ATAR 99+ · % ATAR 95+ · % ATAR 90+ · % ATAR 80+
Suggested citation
Compare Private Schools, "Australian private school Year 12 ATAR outcomes", https://compareprivateschools.com.au/outcomes/, 2026. Source data: bettereducation.com.au state ATAR rankings.
Australian NAPLAN national means 2025
20 rows
2025 NAPLAN national means by year level and domain. Direct from ACARA's annual NAPLAN national results dataset (48MB official Excel release).
Fields
year level (3/5/7/9) · domain (Reading/Writing/Numeracy/Spelling/Grammar) · 2025 national mean score · % Strong or above · % Exceeding · % Developing
Suggested citation
ACARA, NAPLAN national results dataset 2025, https://www.acara.edu.au/naplanresults. Restructured + republished by Compare Private Schools.
Story angles + headline data
If you're writing about Australian private schools, here's the headline-ready data points pulled from these CSVs:
- Median Year 12 fee in 2026: approximately $26,000–28,000 across 207 tracked private schools. Median fee in 2018: ~$18,500. 9-year increase: ~42%.
- Most expensive Year 12 fee in 2026: Geelong Grammar at $58,170 (tuition only).
- Top by % ATAR 99+: Sydney Grammar (33.7%) — top non-selective HSC school nationally.
- Top by median ATAR: Wilderness School Adelaide (96.7), Brisbane Girls Grammar (96.45).
- 2025 NAPLAN Year 9 Reading national mean: 567.7. Up 2.7 points from 2024.
- Parental-education premium: Year 9 Reading mean for kids of bachelor-degree parents is ~80 points higher than for kids of Year 11-educated parents — the strongest demographic signal in NAPLAN data + the underlying explanation for private-school NAPLAN advantage.
- Boarding count: 99 of our 215 schools (46%) offer boarding. Median total annual cost (Y12 tuition + boarding): approximately $70,000.
Direct quote attribution: "Compare Private Schools" or "compareprivateschools.com.au".
Use of our data
All datasets above are released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You may:
- Republish in articles, papers, blog posts, podcasts
- Build derivative datasets + analyses
- Use for commercial purposes
- Embed in research outputs
Required: attribution to "Compare Private Schools" with link back to compareprivateschools.com.au + the relevant page (e.g. /fee-inflation/, /outcomes/).
Where source data is from third parties (ACARA NAPLAN, Better Education ATAR), please cite the original source as well — full citation provided per dataset above.