Moving to Rockbank - Mount Cottrell from Melton West
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Rockbank - Mount Cottrell and Melton West, 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.
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.
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 959 in Melton West. 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, Melton West 999 (3 schools).
There are 5 schools in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell, compared to 8 in Melton West.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 58 in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell vs 9 in Melton West.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Rockbank - Mount Cottrell at 62.6% (vs 29.2% in Melton West).
Rockbank - Mount Cottrell has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 7, above Melton West's Decile 2. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
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Plan the move: Melton West → Rockbank - Mount Cottrell