Middle School Teacher (ANZSCO 241311)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Middle School Teacher on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Middle School Teacher comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

AITSL applies the identical qualification structure it uses for the special-education codes — four years of higher education including a recognised ITE qualification, 45 days of supervised teaching practice with real school students, Academic IELTS at 7.0 reading and writing and 8.0 speaking and listening — for a teacher of students aged 10 to 15. The one structural difference: where that 45-day placement spans two separate school settings rather than one dedicated middle school, AITSL requires a minimum of 10 days teaching upper-primary-aged students (10 to 12) and a minimum of 10 days teaching lower-secondary-aged students (13 to 15) within the total, an age-banding rule none of this family's other checklists carry.

Where these applications come unstuck

An applicant whose middle-years placement happened to concentrate in only one age band — say, 45 days entirely with 10 to 12 year-olds across two settings — risks falling short of this code's specific split requirement even at an adequate total day count. The bigger trap sits outside the checklist itself: because the qualification bar reads identically to the MLTSSL special-education codes, it is easy to assume the visa outcome is the same. It is not, and confirming which code actually fits your specialisation before applying matters more here than the evidence gathering itself.

An honest read on this pathway

Middle School Teacher sits on the STSOL and CSOL only, not the MLTSSL — so despite clearing the same four-year, 45-day, IELTS 7/8 bar as Special Needs Teacher or either sensory-impairment code, it closes off the 189 independent pathway and the 485 graduate visa entirely. Reaching Australia through this code means employer sponsorship, state nomination, or a regional pathway rather than an independent application. Worth checking carefully whether your specialisation genuinely fits one of the MLTSSL special-education codes instead before nominating this one by default.

Whichever authority assesses you, the paperwork is the part applicants underestimate. The Document Vault keeps a single register of every document, what it was needed for, and what is still missing.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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