With Maddy the Primary schol is actually across the road from where she attended Kinder! It's also the Primary school myself & sisters went to.
When she was doing the last half of the year of 4yr old kinder, I went back to work a few days & so my friend whose oldest son was in Prep at the school, was looking after maddy, maddy went along with her to pick up her son etc & she does reading& extra activities at the school & so Maddy was very familira & comfortable at the school.
It had 120ish students in total & Maddy wanted to go there, we did go to another where more of her kinder mates were going but she wanted the smaller school... I am extremely happy with the school..

In regards to Secondary schools, I prefer 1, but when the time comes we will go to 4 or so in our area & discuss the Opportunities etc with Maddy.