Moving to Wallsend - Elermore Vale from Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Wallsend - Elermore Vale and Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough, 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.
Government schools in Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough
Free government schools your child may attend. We couldn’t confirm the exact zone for this point, so we can’t confirm which one is yours.
A picture of students’ family backgrounds (ICSEA) - not a ranking or a quality score.
Fee-paying schools can’t be enrolled in by zone - they’re shown for context, not as the area’s school quality.
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Wallsend Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Wallsend - Elermore Vale.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Wallsend - Elermore Vale (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.
Wallsend - Elermore Vale's government schools have an average ICSEA of 981, compared to 1,000 in Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough. 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 Wallsend - Elermore Vale 1,013 (2 schools), Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough 1,072 (4 schools).
There are 7 schools in Wallsend - Elermore Vale, compared to 13 in Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 23 in Wallsend - Elermore Vale vs 25 in Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is higher in Wallsend - Elermore Vale at 12.2% (vs 6.5% in Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough).
Wallsend - Elermore Vale has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 4, below Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough's Decile 5. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
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Plan the move: Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough → Wallsend - Elermore Vale