Good Schools List/FAQ?

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In the US there are apparently dedicated Aspie schools.
In the UK, I've heard, most teachers get ASD or at least have some kind of training.
In Australian schools, Aspies are troublesome, naughty children with horrible parents that need to be publically taught a lesson.

I'm generalising, of course. Expressing my frustration at the neverending war between the advocate and the army of the clueless. My boy is having increasing trouble at school. I think the school's been pretty good so far, but I feel welcome being worn out and patience being worn thin.
So I did some googling on good Australian schools for Aspies and saw example after example of people packing up and moving overseas over this issue!

Surely there are some diamonds in the rough, and surely this is a common question. Is there a FAQ or list of (preferably Australian) schools that have Aspie units or otherwise get it?

If there is, I haven't found it....

My experience of UK schools is not as you state, OP. The teachers might have heard of ASDs, but that doesn't mean they know how to deal with kids with ASDs. In my part of Scotland, we tend to have primary aged kids with ASDs either in mainstream or in specialist autism bases, within mainstream schools. At secondary, they will either be in mainstream or in a special needs high school (not specifically for autism). The autism bases have a very good reputation, but are not suitable for children like my daughter, who is too high functioning and emotionally stable to be considered to attend one. So, she's in mainstream, which is not really suitable either. The teachers don't appear to get her and have seen her difficulties as being lazy/ not trying, even though she has a diagnosis. She needs something kind of in-between, which does not appear to be available.

I seem to recall not to long ago that some of our Australian members were discussing good schools, in the Melbourne area I think?