Moving to Guildford - South Granville from East Maitland - Metford
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Guildford - South Granville and East Maitland - Metford, 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.
Metford Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in East Maitland - Metford.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of East Maitland - Metford (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
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Government schools in Guildford - South Granville
Free government schools your child may attend. We couldn’t confirm the exact zone for this point, so we can’t confirm which one is yours.
A picture of students’ family backgrounds (ICSEA) - not a ranking or a quality score.
Fee-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.
Guildford - South Granville's government schools have an average ICSEA of 917, compared to 957 in East Maitland - Metford. 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 Guildford - South Granville 1,004 (1 school), East Maitland - Metford 1,038 (5 schools).
There are 5 schools in Guildford - South Granville, compared to 9 in East Maitland - Metford.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 24 in Guildford - South Granville vs 20 in East Maitland - Metford.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Guildford - South Granville at 73.7% (vs 7.1% in East Maitland - Metford).
Guildford - South Granville has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 1, below East Maitland - Metford's Decile 4. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 56% higher in Guildford - South Granville ($1.36M vs $871,000).
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