Moving to Lara from Corio - Lovely Banks
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Lara and Corio - Lovely Banks, 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.
Northern Bay P-12 College
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Corio - Lovely Banks.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Corio - Lovely Banks (VIC catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
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Lara Primary School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Lara.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Lara (VIC 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.
Lara's government schools have an average ICSEA of 995, compared to 877 in Corio - Lovely Banks. 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 Lara 1,040 (1 school), Corio - Lovely Banks 1,039 (3 schools).
There are 5 schools in Lara, compared to 4 in Corio - Lovely Banks.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 16 in Lara vs 9 in Corio - Lovely Banks.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Lara at 11.8% (vs 24.5% in Corio - Lovely Banks).
Lara has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 5, above Corio - Lovely Banks's Decile 1. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 20% higher in Lara ($715,000 vs $595,000).
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Plan the move: Corio - Lovely Banks → Lara