Moving to Warnervale - Wadalba from East Maitland - Metford
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Warnervale - Wadalba and East Maitland - Metford, 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.
Metford Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in East Maitland - Metford.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of East Maitland - Metford (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.
Porters Creek Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Warnervale - Wadalba.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Warnervale - Wadalba (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.
Warnervale - Wadalba's government schools have an average ICSEA of 973, compared to 957 in East Maitland - Metford. 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 Warnervale - Wadalba 1,048 (2 schools), East Maitland - Metford 1,038 (5 schools).
There are 6 schools in Warnervale - Wadalba, compared to 9 in East Maitland - Metford.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 18 in Warnervale - Wadalba vs 20 in East Maitland - Metford.
Warnervale - Wadalba has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 5, above East Maitland - Metford's Decile 4. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 10% higher in Warnervale - Wadalba ($960,000 vs $871,000).
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