Enter a South Australian address to see which government school catchment (enrolment zone) it falls inside. We match the address against the official Department for Education primary and secondary school zone boundaries, so you know which schools a child at that address is guaranteed enrolment at before you buy or rent. It also lists the nearest non-government (Catholic and independent) schools, which enrol by application rather than by zone.
Enter a SA address to see which government school catchments it falls inside
The SA Department for Education publishes catchment polygons for all 125 metro government schools (73 primary, 34 secondary, 18 R-12) as ESRI shapefiles. We convert those to GeoJSON and serve point-in-polygon lookups locally in your browser.
Yes, if you live in a school's catchment, you have a guaranteed right of enrolment at that government school. Out-of-zone enrolment is at the school's discretion and usually waitlist-only.
Yes, we list the nearest non-government (Catholic and independent) schools by distance. They don't have geographic catchments, they enrol by application, often with sibling and family-tied priority, so we can only show proximity, not a guaranteed zone. The list comes from the SA Education Standards Board register of registered schools.
The Department for Education redraws catchments when population shifts (e.g. new estates open) or when a school approaches capacity. We re-fetch the shapefiles when a redraw is announced.