Moving to Wendouree - Miners Rest from Highton
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Wendouree - Miners Rest and Highton, 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.
Highton Primary School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Highton.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Highton (VIC catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
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Yuille Park Community College
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Wendouree - Miners Rest.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Wendouree - Miners Rest (VIC 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.
Wendouree - Miners Rest's government schools have an average ICSEA of 922, compared to 1,096 in Highton. 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 Wendouree - Miners Rest 1,069 (2 schools), Highton 1,099 (2 schools).
There are 7 schools in Wendouree - Miners Rest, compared to 6 in Highton.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Wendouree - Miners Rest at 5.5% (vs 12.8% in Highton).
Wendouree - Miners Rest has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 1, below Highton's Decile 8. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 39% lower in Wendouree - Miners Rest ($537,600 vs $886,000).
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