School runs are the backbone of the Point Cook day. With 18,303 residents aged 14 or under, families here need a lot of classrooms, kinders and care places, and the suburb has been racing to build them since the first estates opened.

Schools in Point Cook

Ten schools sit inside the suburb, seven government and three Catholic. The government schools are Alamanda K-9 College, Carranballac P-9 College (which operates two campuses, at Jamieson Way and Boardwalk), Featherbrook P-9 College, Homestead Senior Secondary College, Point Cook Prep-Year 9 College, Point Cook Senior Secondary College and Saltwater P-9 College. The Catholic schools are Lumen Christi School, Stella Maris Catholic Primary School and St Mary of the Cross Catholic Primary School.

A further ten schools within about six kilometres are listed as nearby, including Seabrook Primary, Altona Meadows Primary, Altona Green Primary, Truganina South Primary, Laverton P-12 College, Emmanuel College's Notre Dame campus, Queen of Peace Primary and Suzanne Cory High School, one of the state's selective entry schools.

Enrolment pressure is real. The seven government schools in the suburb recorded 10,041.1 full-time equivalent enrolments in February 2026, and Alamanda K-9 alone accounts for more than 3,000 of them. Popular schools in new estates fill quickly, so start applications earlier than the deadlines suggest.

Catchments and enrolment

School zones are set by the Department of Education Victoria and they change as new schools open and estates fill. The zone data we hold is a bounding-box approximation, so we do not publish it as a boundary, because a wrong catchment is worse than no catchment. For any specific address, check the department's official findmyschool tool, then confirm with the school directly. If you are buying or renting for a particular school, get that confirmation in writing from the school before you sign.

Childcare, kindergarten and family services

The ACECQA national register lists 39 approved childcare services in the suburb with 3,824 approved places. Across the wider published set, 20 services offer long day care, 13 run outside school hours care (mostly before and after school with vacation care), and 7 are stand-alone preschool or kindergarten services. Quality ratings in the register show 9 services rated Exceeding the National Quality Standard, 26 Meeting, 1 Working Towards and 3 not yet rated.

One important point about places: approved places are licensed capacity, not vacancies. A centre with 90 approved places can have a six month wait for the toddler room and space next week for pre-schoolers. Fees are not published in the register either, and they vary a lot. Ring the service.

Wyndham City Council runs 13 published children's services in Point Cook, including kindergarten and long day care programs, and four maternal and child health centres:

• Featherbrook Maternal and Child Health Centre, 33-35 Windorah Drive
• Jamieson Way Maternal and Child Health Care, 59 Jamieson Way
• Point Cook Maternal and Child Health Centre, 1-21 Cheetham Street
• Saltwater Maternal and Child Health Centre, 153 Saltwater Promenade

Maternal and child health appointments are free for Victorian families and cover the key age and stage checks in your child's health record book. The Jamieson Way precinct also expanded in 2026 with new early years facilities, an indoor multisport venue and netball courts, which is where a lot of the suburb's junior sport and kinder programs now operate.

Tertiary and training

No TAFE or university campus is recorded inside the suburb. Local training options are mostly private: a music school, a tutoring college and a few coaching businesses, all listed in the directory under Training and Tutoring.

What we do not publish

No rankings, no fees, no vacancy claims and no admission advice. Those either change too often to be reliable or require a judgement the data cannot support. What we do publish is what the official records say: the school, its sector and type, its address and phone, its enrolment figure where one exists, and the same for childcare, including the rating and its issue date.

Sources: Department of Education Victoria school locations and enrolment statistics (2025 and February 2026, CC BY 4.0), ACECQA national registers (collected August 2026), Wyndham City Council open data, and Wyndham City announcements on the Jamieson Way expansion. Enrolments cover government schools only. Service counts are records from those sources, not a census.