Moving to Unanderra - Mount Kembla from Dapto - Avondale
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Unanderra - Mount Kembla and Dapto - Avondale, 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.
Koonawarra Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Dapto - Avondale.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Dapto - Avondale (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
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Unanderra Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Unanderra - Mount Kembla.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Unanderra - Mount Kembla (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.
Unanderra - Mount Kembla's government schools have an average ICSEA of 1,001, compared to 936 in Dapto - Avondale. 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 Unanderra - Mount Kembla 1,029 (5 schools), Dapto - Avondale 1,038 (1 school).
There are 8 schools in Unanderra - Mount Kembla, compared to 7 in Dapto - Avondale.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 11 in Unanderra - Mount Kembla vs 23 in Dapto - Avondale.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Unanderra - Mount Kembla at 15.7% (vs 7.6% in Dapto - Avondale).
Unanderra - Mount Kembla has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 6, above Dapto - Avondale's Decile 3. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 19% higher in Unanderra - Mount Kembla ($1.16M vs $970,000).
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