An urgent danger to life warning has been issued as floodwaters submerge the city of Lismore on the northern NSW coast on Monday and more rain expected for Tuesday..
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Subscriber only High growth areas and a flood of interstate migration is spurring on enrolment growth in schools across the Gympie region. Latest Education Department statistics reveal Gympie East and Gunalda State Schools have been the region s fastest growing public schools in the past five years. Gympie East recorded an enrolment of 191 students in 2021, 85 per cent higher than its 2016 enrolment of 103 students. Gunalda State School registered an even bigger jump thanks to its smaller numbers, with enrolments doubling from 20 in 2016 to 40 in 2021. Less than one third of Gympie East s students came from its catchment area, whereas at Gunalda more than half of the 40 students were from within the catchment.
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Location, location, location is the mantra when it comes to real estate and it is especially acute for house hunters with school-aged children.
But neither schools nor houses are cheap; so where should the prospective hunter look in the region?
Data from online property hub CoreLogic reveals bargain hunters should head to Victory Heights, which was at the cheapest end of the scale of real estate prices thanks to median average sale price of $275,000 in November last year.
The suburb is close to two of the regionâs most popular schools, one public and one private - Gympie West State School and Victory College.