Moving to Dapto - Avondale from Quakers Hill
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Dapto - Avondale and Quakers Hill, 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.
Barnier Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Quakers Hill.
This is the zoned in-area government school for Quakers Hill (NSW catchment data).
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Koonawarra Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Dapto - Avondale.
This is the zoned in-area government school for Dapto - Avondale (NSW catchment data).
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We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.
Dapto - Avondale has weaker government school academic context than Quakers Hill, with an average ICSEA of 936 compared to 1,045. ICSEA reflects the academic and socioeconomic intake of students — a higher score signals a higher-resourced school community.
Catholic/independent schools are separate from the free government catchment — average ICSEA Dapto - Avondale 1,038 (1 school), Quakers Hill 1,098 (1 school).
There are 7 schools in Dapto - Avondale, compared to 5 in Quakers Hill.
Childcare services matched by postcode: 27 in Dapto - Avondale vs 26 in Quakers Hill.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Dapto - Avondale at 7.6% (vs 45.8% in Quakers Hill).
Dapto - Avondale has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 3, below Quakers Hill's Decile 8. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 36% lower in Dapto - Avondale ($905,000 vs $1.43M).
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