Moving to Marsden Park - Shanes Park from Tamworth Surrounds
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Marsden Park - Shanes Park and Tamworth Surrounds, 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.
Oxley Vale Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Tamworth Surrounds.
The government catchment school for parts of Tamworth Surrounds is Oxley Vale Public School - just outside the suburb boundary (NSW catchment data).
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Northbourne Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Marsden Park - Shanes Park.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Marsden Park - Shanes Park (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.
Marsden Park - Shanes Park's government schools have an average ICSEA of 1,089, compared to 909 in Tamworth Surrounds. 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 Marsden Park - Shanes Park 1,080 (3 schools), Tamworth Surrounds 969 (2 schools).
There are 6 schools in Marsden Park - Shanes Park, compared to 15 in Tamworth Surrounds.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 13 in Marsden Park - Shanes Park vs 12 in Tamworth Surrounds.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Marsden Park - Shanes Park at 61.3% (vs 2.0% in Tamworth Surrounds).
Marsden Park - Shanes Park has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 10, above Tamworth Surrounds's Decile 4. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 155% higher in Marsden Park - Shanes Park ($1.28M vs $501,500).
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Plan the move: Tamworth Surrounds → Marsden Park - Shanes Park