Moving to Woy Woy - Blackwall from Merrylands - Holroyd
Schools, childcare, demographics and house prices for Woy Woy - Blackwall and Merrylands - Holroyd, 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.
Merrylands Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Merrylands - Holroyd.
This is the zoned in-area government school for Merrylands - Holroyd (NSW catchment data).
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Woy Woy Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Woy Woy - Blackwall.
This is the zoned in-area government school for Woy Woy - Blackwall (NSW catchment data).
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We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.
Woy Woy - Blackwall has stronger government school academic context than Merrylands - Holroyd, with an average ICSEA of 980 compared to 948. 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 Woy Woy - Blackwall 1,081 (1 school), Merrylands - Holroyd 1,050 (1 school).
There are 4 schools in Woy Woy - Blackwall, compared to 6 in Merrylands - Holroyd.
Childcare services matched by postcode: 13 in Woy Woy - Blackwall vs 39 in Merrylands - Holroyd.
The proportion of children from non-English-speaking backgrounds is lower in Woy Woy - Blackwall at 9.3% (vs 70.1% in Merrylands - Holroyd).
Median house prices are 22% lower in Woy Woy - Blackwall ($1.11M vs $1.43M).
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