Have you looked at the myschool website? You can get a list of schools in particular suburbs and compare stats etc... Take some of the results with a grain of salt, but you can compare them a bit. You can at least see how far different schools are from each other...unfortunately schools are not "zoned" per se anymore. It really is simply which is the closest physically. They used to have particular zoned areas, but it's different now... Although you could argue its still a "zone"- DEECD just doesn't really refer it them in that way anymore... It seems to be just the real estate agents that do that.
Thanks that is what I have found - it certainly doesn't make it easy to work out when you are looking at areas you are unfamiliar with - it seems the only way is to get Google maps, and plot on to it where the schools are (using the myschool website listing) and then can see which would be closest to.

The primary school here does actually display a map showing it as a zone - but it is under review so I wonder whether they will stop using the term zone too. It seems funny they are considering shrinking the zone - we are dead center of it, but I don't actually know anyone else with children who lives in the zone, and yes they are building more flats and apartments etc in the zone (which is the rational listed for the review) but these aren't in the main getting filled by families. I would like to know where all the children that are filling up to the enrollment ceiling hang out - because I never seem to see many or cross paths with them. The other family in this block of flats that had two children have moved out now they have got them both into the school - so maybe lots of people do that?

I doubt we will end up doing anything - things could all change by the time DD is ready for secondary school - but at least now I know how complicated working out a move would be.