Ideal Home is an address checker first: nearby schools and Local Enrolment Area (catchment) where official polygons exist. These pages explain coverage, public data, cost recovery, moving-house steps, and the optional institute/researcher view. They are not enrolment advice.
Side-by-side nearby schools and Local Enrolment Area for two places. Same honesty rules: WA/NT stay No data; never an enrolment guarantee.
Practical under-an-hour steps before you inspect a place: nearby schools, Local Enrolment Area, boundary caution, and confirm-with-school. WA/NT stay No data.
Plain-English catchment language and links to every state checker, including WA and NT honesty pages.
Nearby schools work. Government Local Enrolment Area stays No data — not No. Official checker: Schools Online.
Nearby schools work. Government Local Enrolment Area stays No data. Official PEA maps, then confirm with the school.
Address → nearby schools → Local Enrolment Area Yes/No/No data/N/A. First-pass match only — always confirm with the school.
Yes / No / No data / N/A, WA/NT official tools, stay-free notes, and the institute/researcher question.
What public ACARA and catchment fields appear in School Finder — and what we leave out (no NAPLAN tables, no data paywall).
Core Local Enrolment Area stays free. Donations are hosting/geocode cost recovery. No checkout, ads, or selling open data.
Optional nearest-first view of the same public school data. Family catchment check stays the default. Not job hunting.
Licences and attribution, including Tasmania DECYP intake areas via TheLIST.
Tasmania intake areas stay attributed to DECYP via TheLIST. Families should confirm details with the school/DECYP. We never guess Local Enrolment Area Yes for WA or NT.