Moving to Kangaroo Flat - Golden Square from Bendigo Surrounds - South
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Kangaroo Flat - Golden Square and Bendigo Surrounds - South, 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.
Kangaroo Flat Primary School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Bendigo Surrounds - South.
The government catchment school for parts of Bendigo Surrounds - South is Kangaroo Flat Primary School — just outside the suburb boundary (VIC catchment data).
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Kangaroo Flat Primary School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Kangaroo Flat - Golden Square.
This is the zoned in-area government school for Kangaroo Flat - Golden Square (VIC catchment data).
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We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.
Kangaroo Flat - Golden Square has weaker government school academic context than Bendigo Surrounds - South, with an average ICSEA of 949 compared to 1,012. 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 Kangaroo Flat - Golden Square 1,032 (1 school), Bendigo Surrounds - South none in this SA2.
There are 7 schools in Kangaroo Flat - Golden Square, compared to 4 in Bendigo Surrounds - South.
Childcare services matched by postcode: 16 in Kangaroo Flat - Golden Square vs 3 in Bendigo Surrounds - South.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Kangaroo Flat - Golden Square at 8.0% (vs 2.4% in Bendigo Surrounds - South).
Kangaroo Flat - Golden Square has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 2, below Bendigo Surrounds - South's Decile 7. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 17% lower in Kangaroo Flat - Golden Square ($555,000 vs $672,500).
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