Moving to Ballarat from East Bendigo - Kennington
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Ballarat and East Bendigo - Kennington, side by side - all from public government data.
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Sources: ABS ERP June 2025 · ABS Census 2021 · ABS SEIFA 2021 · ACARA School Profile 2025 · ACECQA NQS register · Valuer-General Victoria & DFFH (VIC) · DCJ Housing (NSW) · NSW BOCSAR (NSW) · CSA Victoria (VIC). How we source this data →
The free government school your child can attend in each area - side by side, never a blended average.
Kennington Primary School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in East Bendigo - Kennington.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of East Bendigo - Kennington (VIC catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
See the catchment on the mapFee-paying schools can’t be enrolled in by zone - they’re shown for context, not as the area’s school quality.
We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.
Pleasant Street Primary School (Ballarat)
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Ballarat.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Ballarat (VIC catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
See the catchment on the mapFee-paying schools can’t be enrolled in by zone - they’re shown for context, not as the area’s school quality.
We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.
Ballarat's government schools have an average ICSEA of 1,027, compared to 979 in East Bendigo - Kennington. ICSEA reflects the socioeconomic intake of students, not teaching quality - it is not a ranking of school performance.
Catholic/independent schools are separate from the free government catchment - average ICSEA Ballarat 1,099 (4 schools), East Bendigo - Kennington 1,077 (2 schools).
There are 9 schools in Ballarat, compared to 3 in East Bendigo - Kennington.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 11 in Ballarat vs 6 in East Bendigo - Kennington.
Ballarat has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 7, above East Bendigo - Kennington's Decile 5. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 90% higher in Ballarat ($1.25M vs $654,000).
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