Moving to Ermington - Rydalmere from Asquith - Mount Colah
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Ermington - Rydalmere and Asquith - Mount Colah, 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.
Mt Colah PS
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Asquith - Mount Colah.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Asquith - Mount Colah (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
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Rydalmere Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Ermington - Rydalmere.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Ermington - Rydalmere (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
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We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.
Ermington - Rydalmere's government schools have an average ICSEA of 1,041, compared to 1,086 in Asquith - Mount Colah. 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 Ermington - Rydalmere 1,084 (2 schools), Asquith - Mount Colah 1,124 (1 school).
There are 7 schools in Ermington - Rydalmere, compared to 8 in Asquith - Mount Colah.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 26 in Ermington - Rydalmere vs 17 in Asquith - Mount Colah.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Ermington - Rydalmere at 50.3% (vs 30.1% in Asquith - Mount Colah).
Ermington - Rydalmere has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 7, below Asquith - Mount Colah's Decile 9. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 9% higher in Ermington - Rydalmere ($2.1M vs $1.93M).
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Plan the move: Asquith - Mount Colah → Ermington - Rydalmere