Moving to Thornton - Millers Forest from Gosford - Springfield
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Thornton - Millers Forest and Gosford - Springfield, 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.
Gosford Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Gosford - Springfield.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Gosford - Springfield (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.
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.
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.
Thornton - Millers Forest's government schools have an average ICSEA of 947, compared to 1,016 in Gosford - Springfield. 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 Thornton - Millers Forest 1,034 (3 schools), Gosford - Springfield 1,052 (4 schools).
There are 5 schools in Thornton - Millers Forest, compared to 11 in Gosford - Springfield.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 13 in Thornton - Millers Forest vs 15 in Gosford - Springfield.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Thornton - Millers Forest at 8.1% (vs 17.4% in Gosford - Springfield).
Thornton - Millers Forest has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 6, above Gosford - Springfield's Decile 5. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 24% lower in Thornton - Millers Forest ($857,000 vs $1.13M).
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