Moving to Williamtown - Medowie - Karuah from Schofields - East
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Williamtown - Medowie - Karuah and Schofields - East, 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.
Riverbank Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Schofields - East.
This is the zoned in-area government school for Schofields - East (NSW catchment data).
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Wirreanda Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Williamtown - Medowie - Karuah.
This is the zoned in-area government school for Williamtown - Medowie - Karuah (NSW catchment data).
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We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.
Williamtown - Medowie - Karuah has weaker government school academic context than Schofields - East, with an average ICSEA of 940 compared to 1,107. ICSEA reflects the academic and socioeconomic intake of students — a higher score signals a higher-resourced school community.
Catholic/independent schools are separate from the free government catchment — average ICSEA Williamtown - Medowie - Karuah 1,029 (2 schools), Schofields - East 1,106 (3 schools).
There are 6 schools in Williamtown - Medowie - Karuah, compared to 8 in Schofields - East.
Childcare services matched by postcode: 12 in Williamtown - Medowie - Karuah vs 72 in Schofields - East.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Williamtown - Medowie - Karuah at 3.5% (vs 60.5% in Schofields - East).
Williamtown - Medowie - Karuah has a SEIFA advantage (IRSAD) of Decile 4, below Schofields - East's Decile 10. Decile 10 is the most advantaged nationally.
Median house prices are 24% lower in Williamtown - Medowie - Karuah ($1.02M vs $1.33M).
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