Moving to Rockbank - Mount Cottrell from Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Rockbank - Mount Cottrell and Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek, 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.
Armstrong Creek School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek (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.
Aintree Primary School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Rockbank - Mount Cottrell (VIC catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
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Rockbank - Mount Cottrell's government schools have an average ICSEA of 1,030, compared to 1,055 in Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek. 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 Rockbank - Mount Cottrell none in this SA2, Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek 1,070 (1 school).
There are 5 schools in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell, compared to 4 in Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 58 in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell vs 14 in Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell at 62.6% (vs 7.9% in Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek).
Rockbank - Mount Cottrell has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 7, below Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek's Decile 8. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 6% lower in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell ($638,000 vs $680,000).
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Plan the move: Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek → Rockbank - Mount Cottrell