Moving to East Bendigo - Kennington from Rockbank - Mount Cottrell
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for East Bendigo - Kennington and Rockbank - Mount Cottrell, 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.
Aintree Primary School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Rockbank - Mount Cottrell (VIC 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.
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.
East Bendigo - Kennington's government schools have an average ICSEA of 979, compared to 1,030 in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell. 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 East Bendigo - Kennington 1,077 (2 schools), Rockbank - Mount Cottrell none in this SA2.
There are 3 schools in East Bendigo - Kennington, compared to 5 in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 6 in East Bendigo - Kennington vs 58 in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in East Bendigo - Kennington at 8.5% (vs 62.6% in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell).
East Bendigo - Kennington has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 5, below Rockbank - Mount Cottrell's Decile 7. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
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