Moving to Port Macquarie - West from Guildford - South Granville
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Port Macquarie - West and Guildford - South Granville, 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.
Government schools in Guildford - South Granville
Free government schools your child may attend. We couldn’t confirm the exact zone for this point, so we can’t confirm which one is yours.
A picture of students’ family backgrounds (ICSEA) - not a ranking or a quality score.
Fee-paying schools can’t be enrolled in by zone - they’re shown for context, not as the area’s school quality.
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Westport Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Port Macquarie - West.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Port Macquarie - West (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.
Government school academic context is comparable between Port Macquarie - West (ICSEA 904) and Guildford - South Granville (917).
Catholic/independent schools are separate from the free government catchment - average ICSEA Port Macquarie - West 1,016 (9 schools), Guildford - South Granville 1,004 (1 school).
There are 11 schools in Port Macquarie - West, compared to 5 in Guildford - South Granville.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 2 in Port Macquarie - West vs 24 in Guildford - South Granville.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Port Macquarie - West at 6.6% (vs 73.7% in Guildford - South Granville).
Port Macquarie - West has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 3, above Guildford - South Granville's Decile 1. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 30% lower in Port Macquarie - West ($950,000 vs $1.36M).
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Plan the move: Guildford - South Granville → Port Macquarie - West