# SchoolAtlas

> Factual information about New South Wales (Australia) public schools, for parents choosing a
> school. Every figure traces back to an official source. SchoolAtlas will never rank schools and
> carries no scores, ratings, or parent reviews.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://schoolatlas.com.au/): school search.
- [Search](https://schoolatlas.com.au/search): paginated results. Query params: `q` (keyword),
  `age[]` (`early`/`primary`/`secondary`), `gender[]` (`M`/`F`/`C`); repeated params are OR-combined.
- [Subject specialties](https://schoolatlas.com.au/nsw/subjects): schools by specialty (languages, performing arts, sport, ...).
- [Year levels](https://schoolatlas.com.au/nsw/years): schools by year level offered.
- [Schools for Specific Purposes](https://schoolatlas.com.au/nsw/ssp): specialist SSP settings.
- [Support classes](https://schoolatlas.com.au/nsw/support-classes): mainstream schools running support classes.
- [Data sources](https://schoolatlas.com.au/data-sources): where every figure comes from.

## Schools

Each school lives at `https://schoolatlas.com.au/schools/{ageId}-{slug}` (the ACARA AGE ID plus a name slug);
`https://schoolatlas.com.au/s/{ageId}` is a stable short form that redirects there. **Every school page has a
Markdown version at the canonical URL plus `.md`**, e.g.
`https://schoolatlas.com.au/schools/41001-abbotsford-public-school.md`. The complete URL list is in the
[sitemap](https://schoolatlas.com.au/sitemap.xml).

## Data sources

Figures come from the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) and the
NSW Department of Education; descriptive prose is compiled from each school's own website and its
NSW School Infrastructure page. English pages are canonical; Traditional Chinese lives under
`/zh-hk` and Simplified Chinese under `/zh-hans`. SchoolAtlas never ranks schools and excludes
parent reviews by design.