Moving to Melton West from Marsden Park - Shanes Park
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Melton West and Marsden Park - Shanes Park, 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.
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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Wedge Park Primary School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Melton West.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Melton West (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.
Melton West's government schools have an average ICSEA of 959, compared to 1,089 in Marsden Park - Shanes Park. 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 Melton West 999 (3 schools), Marsden Park - Shanes Park 1,080 (3 schools).
There are 8 schools in Melton West, compared to 6 in Marsden Park - Shanes Park.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 9 in Melton West vs 13 in Marsden Park - Shanes Park.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Melton West at 29.2% (vs 61.3% in Marsden Park - Shanes Park).
Melton West has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 2, below Marsden Park - Shanes Park's Decile 10. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 50% lower in Melton West ($637,000 vs $1.28M).
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