Find and Compare the Best Schools in Australia.
Search schools near you, compare profiles, and shortlist the right fit faster.
Find the Best School for Your Child
Explore school profiles, compare key details and use free planning tools to build a shortlist that reflects what matters to your family.
Start with our flagship assessments
Each assessment takes around five minutes and ends with personalised guidance, practical next steps, and a clearer way to explore your options.
School Choice Assessment
Public School vs. Private School?
Torn between public and private school? Take our free 5-minute School Choice Assessment. Get personalised recommendations, local options, and expert insights. Make the best decision for your child's future - start now!
School Readiness Assessment
Is Your 4-5 Year Old Child Ready For School?
Unsure if your 4-5 Year Old is ready for school? Take our free 5-minute School Readiness Assessment. Get a personalised overview, action plan, and local school recommendations. Start your child's education journey with confidence!
Scholarship Eligibility Assessment
Is Your Child Ready for a Scholarship?
Curious if your child is ready to apply for a scholarship? Take our free 5-minute Scholarship Eligibility Assessment. Get a personalised readiness profile, action plan, and expert tips to maximise your child's chances. Start your scholarship journey today!
What Matters to Our Family?
A Personalised School Decision Framework
Clarify your family’s priorities, practical boundaries and questions to ask every school. Receive a personalised framework by email for consistent decisions — not a school ranking or match score.
Your School Search Journey
Whether you're just starting to think about schools or ready to apply, BestSchools supports you at every phase of your education journey.
Step 1
Understand Your Needs
Use assessments to understand your child's readiness, determine the best school type, and explore scholarship opportunities
Step 2
Explore Your Options
Explore schools with our interactive map, browse the directory, and compare shortlisted options side-by-side
Step 3
Prepare & Apply
Download essential checklists for school tours, starting school, and supporting your child throughout their educational journey
Featured Schools
Everything You Need to Know About Finding Schools
Get clear answers about using BestSchools to research and compare school options.
Start with the school directory to explore by location and filters. Add up to 3 schools to the comparison tool, then confirm important details directly with each school.
No. Families can search for schools, compare options and use our planning tools without paying BestSchools. Schools can pay for profile upgrades, promotional visibility and other services.
Enrolment timelines vary by school, sector, year level and location. Starting early gives you more time to compare options, attend open days and understand each school's process. Check application dates and entry requirements directly with the schools you are considering.
Available school directory filters include location, school type, sector, gender, boarding, CRICOS registration, scholarship availability and indicative fee bands. Some filters depend on the data available for each school, so use them as a starting point and confirm requirements with the school.
You can compare up to 3 schools side by side. The comparison helps you review consistently structured information, but it is not a ranking and does not decide which school is the best fit for your family.
Profiles combine publicly available government data with content supplied by schools. Sources and update cycles differ, and time-sensitive details such as fees, events and contact information can change. Confirm important information directly with the school and report anything that looks incorrect.
Your search and selected filters determine which schools are eligible. Within that set, active paid plan level and available school imagery can influence the order. Free listings and trials receive no plan-based ordering benefit. The first result is not necessarily an independent recommendation or the best school for your family.
Featured Schools is a promotional placement for published schools with active Starter, Growth or Premium subscriptions, ordered by most recent activation. Free listings, trials, pilot access and complimentary access are excluded. It is not a rating, award or independent endorsement from BestSchools.
BestSchools does not currently publish school star ratings or parent reviews. Use school profiles as a research starting point, visit schools where possible and check important details directly with each school.
When you submit an enquiry, booking request or similar form, the details you provide are shared with the selected school so it can respond. Read our Terms & Policies for more information about personal information.
A claimed profile means an authorised school representative has been approved to manage eligible profile content. It does not mean BestSchools independently verifies every statement the school publishes or endorses the school.
Use our Contact Us page and include the school name, profile link and the detail that needs attention so the team can investigate.
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