St Peters, NSW Family Guide

From St Peters, a government school place can come through more than one door

Most St Peters families will go through the first door: the local intake area. In NSW a child is entitled to enrol at a public school when their home is inside its designated intake area (Service NSW), and St Peters Public School is the government primary in the suburb itself. But two schools a short trip away also take children from outside their local area, each by a different test and on its own timetable.

Which door fits your child

Two details that catch families out

• Local means local at Newtown High. Local students live in its designated catchment, and the school gives no sibling rights to a family that moves out of it (Newtown High).
• Alexandria Park runs from Kindergarten to Year 12 (Alexandria Park), so a child can stay at one government school from the first day to the last, if the address or a selective place gets them in.

The schools around you

The chart counts every school we map within 2 km of St Peters, by sector.

Next steps

• Put your exact address into School Finder, or line the zoned schools up in our catchment checker.
• Open the Newtown High School of the Performing Arts and Alexandria Park Community School pages, and note which of the dates above fall in the next school year.
• For what happens after the bell, start at the St Peters activities page, then Marrickville and Erskineville next door.