| Source | Share | Links |
|---|---|---|
| haileybury.com.au | 13% | 39 |
| en.wikipedia.org | 10% | 14 |
| wesleycollege.edu.au | 10% | 28 |
| isa.edu.au | 8% | 18 |
| leq.lutheran.edu.au | 7% | 14 |
| lutheran.edu.au | 7% | 17 |
| knox.nsw.edu.au | 5% | 10 |
| vrqa.vic.gov.au | 5% | 9 |
| scotch.vic.edu.au | 5% | 11 |
| isq.qld.edu.au | 5% | 16 |
AI Rankings · Private and independent school groups · Australia
Best private and independent school groups in Australia, according to AI (October 2026)
We asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode 60 questions a buyer in Australia types when looking for private and independent school groups. The engines named 42 companies in Australia. Malek Fahd Islamic School is named most often, in 31% of answers, followed by Sydney Catholic Schools (22%) and Haileybury (16%). 17 are named by all three engines.
The full list is below, ranked by how consistently each company is named.
- 60 buyer questions
- 180 answers read
- 3 engines
All 42 companies AI names in Australia
Click a company to open its full report: every answer that names it, where it stands in each one, and the sites behind every rival. Mentioned is the share of answers that name the company: all 180, one engine’s 60 in the engine columns. Green marks that engine’s 3 most recommended. A crossed circle means it never named the company. Click a heading to sort.
Every company AI named in Australia, ranked by how consistently it is named.
4 most recommended. 38 named. The rest not cited.
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Where AI gets its answers
Before an engine names a company, it reads the web. These are the sites each engine cited most in its 60 answers for Australia, by the share of answers citing them.
| Source | Share | Links |
|---|---|---|
| en.wikipedia.org | 18% | 58 |
| compareprivateschools.com.au | 12% | 20 |
| schools-360.com.au | 10% | 30 |
| australianschoolsdirectory.com.au | 7% | 10 |
| wesleycollege.edu.au | 5% | 11 |
| privateschoolsguide.com | 5% | 16 |
| privateschoolsdirectory.com.au | 5% | 8 |
| isa.edu.au | 5% | 5 |
| mvac.adventist.edu.au | 5% | 6 |
| apssport.org.au | 3% | 26 |
| Source | Share | Links |
|---|---|---|
| en.wikipedia.org | 22% | 34 |
| privateschoolsguide.com | 17% | 20 |
| isa.edu.au | 15% | 18 |
| adventist.edu.au | 10% | 18 |
| haileybury.com.au | 7% | 13 |
| anglischools.edu.au | 7% | 8 |
| lutheran.edu.au | 7% | 14 |
| tasc.nsw.edu.au | 5% | 8 |
| cen.edu.au | 5% | 6 |
| tutero.com | 5% | 6 |
One thing stands out. ChatGPT cites company sites directly: haileybury.com.au tops its list, so a company’s own pages decide whether it is named.
What to do with your row
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MentionedNamed, not recommended
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Not namedMissing from all 180 answers
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What “Top 3 in AI answers” means
A company gets the badge when it is in the top 3 on any single engine, by how many of that engine’s answers recommend it, not just name it. The badge names the engine, so a company can hold it on Gemini and not on ChatGPT. In Australia that is Malek Fahd Islamic School, Sydney Catholic Schools and Haileybury on ChatGPT. Malek Fahd Islamic School, Sydney Catholic Schools and Haileybury on Gemini. Malek Fahd Islamic School, Sydney Catholic Schools and Tyndale Christian School Group on Google AI Mode. 9 badges, 4 companies. A badge holder confirms its website inside the report and puts the badge on its site, and it links back to this page.
The 60 questions we asked
Every company was measured against the same 60 questions, asked the way a buyer types them, with no company name in the question. Grouped by how the question is asked: four kinds.
Use case (the job is named)
3 questions
- Are there fee-paying school networks in New South Wales that give a sibling discount across all their schools?
- We might get posted interstate, so which Canberra private school groups have a sister school in another state?
- If we move interstate, which private school groups in Australia use the same curriculum at every campus?
Alternatives (excluding the well-known)
the question asks for options outside the market leaders21 questions
- Any Sydney independent school groups with a program for gifted kids?
- In Victoria, which independent school groups have both a city school and a country school?
- Looking for Melbourne independent school networks with a strong music program at each campus.
+ 18 more questions in this group.
Criterion (price, reviews, support, integration)
a plain category question with one qualifier2 questions
- Which of Australia's non-government school groups get the best reviews from parents?
- Tell me which private school groups in Australia are best value for money.
Other phrasing
34 questions
- Which Anglican school groups in New South Wales run more than one campus?
- Which Sydney private school groups have both a boys' school and a girls' school under the same banner?
- Tell me which Islamic school networks in Sydney have a few schools under the one umbrella.
+ 31 more questions in this group.
How we measure
Each of the 60 questions was asked once to ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode in October 2026: 180 answers. We read every answer and record which companies it names. A company’s share is the part of answers that name it. Different spellings of one company are merged into one row.
Left out: companies outside Australia, and names that aren’t private and independent school groups. A name AI gave without a website we could find is listed without a profile.
One run per question means a single answer moves a company at the bottom of the table by a point. Treat differences of 1 to 2% as noise and the top 20 as stable.
One email when the next run moves this list: who entered, who left, where you stand. No newsletter.
Questions about this ranking
Why isn’t my company listed?
Either no engine named it in the 180 answers we read, or it was named and we could not match it to a website. Search the list above. If it was named, its full report is ready. If it was never named, Findrix shows what AI says when buyers ask about private and independent school groups, which rivals it names instead, and a ranked list of fixes: the page, the edit, and the next scan ticks it off. It starts with the 7-day trial.
What is in the full report?
Everything we collected about the company: its position on each of ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode, recommended or only mentioned, its average position in the answer and what AI says about it word for word. It is free and open to anyone, no login. The “Top 3 in AI answers” badge goes on the company’s site when any engine puts it in its top 3.
Why would I subscribe if I am already listed?
This page is one snapshot. Findrix is where you control and grow your AI visibility over time: your own question set, 60 to 180 questions by plan, tracked for you and your rivals. On every answer you see recommended, only mentioned, or a rival, and which sites earned that rival the spot. Wrong facts come with the correction email written for you. Your site becomes a numbered plan: which page, what to change, confirmed by the next scan. A PDF report for you and your team. It starts with the 7-day trial.
Can I correct or remove my company’s listing?
Use Request a correction at the bottom of the page: we check the change against the answers and fix the listing. For anything else, write to us there too and we will look at it against your website.
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