Moving to Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila from Kellyville Ridge (The Ponds area)
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila and Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds, side by side - all from public government data.
Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila has 14,288 people (ABS, June 2025), +0.3% in a year, a median house price of $919,529, 5 schools and 5 childcare services. Full Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila suburb profile.
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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 sales Mar 2026 and rent Jun 2026 (NSW) · RTA Queensland rents (QLD) · NSW BOCSAR (NSW) · CSA Victoria (VIC). How we source this data →
Which school is zoned?
The free government school your child can attend in each area - side by side, never a blended average.
John Palmer Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
See the catchment on the mapWe show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.
Berkeley Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
See the catchment on the mapWe show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.
Honest tradeoff
Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila's government schools have an average ICSEA of 922, compared to 1,090 in Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds. ICSEA reflects the socioeconomic intake of students, not teaching quality - it is not a ranking of school performance.
There are 5 schools in Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila, compared to 3 in Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 5 in Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila vs 12 in Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila at 29.7% (vs 47.5% in Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds).
Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 1, below Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds's Decile 10. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 42% lower in Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila ($919,529 vs $1.59M).
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What is the population of Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila?
14,288 people lived in Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila at June 2025 (ABS Estimated Resident Population), a change of +0.3% over the year. Kellyville Ridge (The Ponds area) had 21,774.
Are houses cheaper in Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila than in Kellyville Ridge (The Ponds area)?
Yes. The median house price is $919,529 in Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila and $1.59M in Kellyville Ridge (The Ponds area), 42% lower in Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila.
How many schools are in Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila?
ACARA lists 5 schools in Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila, against 3 in Kellyville Ridge (The Ponds area). The zoned government school for an address is shown above under "Which school is zoned?".
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Plan the move: Kellyville Ridge - The Ponds → Berkeley - Lake Heights - Cringila