The Cairns council area in Queensland has 20 primary zones and 8 secondary zones for government schools. Each one is listed
below with the suburbs it covers and the median rents around them.
Schools are in alphabetical order. A zone can cross a council border, so some suburbs listed
here sit in a neighbouring council. A suburb can also be split between two zones - check your
street address on
Queensland catchment maps
before you rely on it.
Wooroonooran, Aloomba, Lamb Range, Goldsborough, Gordonvale, Gadgarra, Yarrabah, Green Hill, East Trinity, Little Mulgrave, Fishery Falls, Packers Camp, Portsmith, Wrights Creek and 1 more - see the zone map
Median weekly rent, 3-bedroom house
$660 to $680 a week lowest and highest of 2 areas with a published figure (includes postcode 4870)
Wangetti, Macalister Range, Smithfield, Yorkeys Knob, Clifton Beach, Kewarra Beach, Trinity Beach, Barron, Caravonica, Palm Cove, Trinity Park, Holloways Beach, Ellis Beach
Median weekly rent, 3-bedroom house
$680 to $700 a week lowest and highest of 4 areas with a published figure (includes postcodes 4870, 4878)
Woree, White Rock, Bayview Heights, Earlville, Mount Sheridan, Mooroobool
Median weekly rent, 3-bedroom house
$650 to $680 a week lowest and highest of 5 areas with a published figure (includes postcodes 4868, 4870)
ICSEA
854 student intake, not a ranking
Which government school zones are in Cairns?
The Cairns council area in Queensland has 20 primary zones and 8 secondary zones. Primary: Aloomba State School, Balaclava State School, Bartle Frere State School, Bellenden Ker State School, Cairns West State School, Caravonica State School, Edge Hill State School, Freshwater State School, Gordonvale State School, Hambledon State School and 10 more. Secondary: Babinda State School, Bentley Park College, Cairns State High School, Gordonvale State High School, Redlynch State College, Trinity Bay State High School, Tropical North Learning Academy - Smithfield State High School, Woree State High School.
How do I check which school zone my address in Cairns is in?
Zone lines follow streets, not suburb borders, so one suburb can be split between two zones. Type your street address into the address check on our school zones page, then confirm it on Queensland catchment maps, the official map, before you rely on it.
How to read this page
Which zones are listed - government schools located in the Cairns council area that have an official zone. A few schools are left out because the zone data does not name them clearly; non-government and specialist schools have no zones.
Suburbs in the zone - suburbs the zone covers in whole or in a large part (at least 10% of the suburb or of the zone).
Prices and rents - the medians our suburb pages show for the statistical areas (ABS SA2) that contain the zone's suburbs, as the lowest and highest. They describe those whole areas, not only the streets inside the zone. Queensland publishes no free sale-price series, so only rent is shown.
ICSEA - a picture of the family backgrounds of a school's students (1000 is the national average). It describes student intake. It is not a ranking and not a measure of teaching.
Next steps
School zone finder - nearby suburbs within your budget and the schools each is zoned to.
All QLD schools - every school in the state, including non-government schools.
School fees or moving - compare private school fees with the cost of moving into a zone.