Moving to Warnervale - Wadalba from Mount Druitt - Whalan
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Warnervale - Wadalba and Mount Druitt - Whalan, 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.
Mt Druitt PS
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Mount Druitt - Whalan.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Mount Druitt - Whalan (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
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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 925 in Mount Druitt - Whalan. 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), Mount Druitt - Whalan 1,006 (5 schools).
There are 6 schools in Warnervale - Wadalba, compared to 11 in Mount Druitt - Whalan.
Childcare services matched by suburb name: 18 in Warnervale - Wadalba vs 25 in Mount Druitt - Whalan.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Warnervale - Wadalba at 10.8% (vs 56.2% in Mount Druitt - Whalan).
Warnervale - Wadalba has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 5, above Mount Druitt - Whalan's Decile 1. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
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Plan the move: Mount Druitt - Whalan → Warnervale - Wadalba