Moving to Mount Druitt - Whalan from Thornton - Millers Forest
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Mount Druitt - Whalan and Thornton - Millers Forest, 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.
Thornton Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Thornton - Millers Forest.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Thornton - Millers Forest (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.
Mt Druitt PS
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Mount Druitt - Whalan.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Mount Druitt - Whalan (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
See the catchment on the mapFee-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.
Mount Druitt - Whalan's government schools have an average ICSEA of 925, compared to 947 in Thornton - Millers Forest. 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 Mount Druitt - Whalan 1,006 (5 schools), Thornton - Millers Forest 1,034 (3 schools).
There are 11 schools in Mount Druitt - Whalan, compared to 5 in Thornton - Millers Forest.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 25 in Mount Druitt - Whalan vs 13 in Thornton - Millers Forest.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Mount Druitt - Whalan at 56.2% (vs 8.1% in Thornton - Millers Forest).
Mount Druitt - Whalan has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 1, below Thornton - Millers Forest's Decile 6. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 14% higher in Mount Druitt - Whalan ($980,000 vs $857,000).
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