Moving to Quakers Hill from East Maitland - Metford
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Quakers Hill and East Maitland - Metford, 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.
Metford Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in East Maitland - Metford.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of East Maitland - Metford (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
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Barnier Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Quakers Hill.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Quakers Hill (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.
Quakers Hill's government schools have an average ICSEA of 1,045, compared to 957 in East Maitland - Metford. 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 Quakers Hill 1,098 (1 school), East Maitland - Metford 1,038 (5 schools).
There are 5 schools in Quakers Hill, compared to 9 in East Maitland - Metford.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 22 in Quakers Hill vs 20 in East Maitland - Metford.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Quakers Hill at 45.8% (vs 7.1% in East Maitland - Metford).
Quakers Hill has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 8, above East Maitland - Metford's Decile 4. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 55% higher in Quakers Hill ($1.35M vs $871,000).
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