Mansfield State High tops Domain search data for 2025
Mansfield State High School’s auditorium fills up three times a year, but most of those there are not parents of students at the sought-after public school, at least not yet.
Real estate in Brisbane is divided into fewer than 200 suburbs, but perhaps more importantly around 60 high school and 130 primary school districts.
Data from online property marketplace Domain has revealed the Mansfield catchment is the most sought-after catchment in Queensland.
Ray White Mount Gravatt principal and auctioneer Grant Boman said 600 to 700 people typically fill the agency’s auctions, held three times a year through school sponsorship.
“This is obviously increasing year on year and that’s because of the school’s fantastic results,” Boman said.
“Parents’ desire to move to a place where they know they will receive a quality education for their children.”
A home listed in the Mansfield State High basin could attract up to 25 percent more interest from that fact alone, he said.
Just under 90 percent of students living in the area attend Mansfield, equating to more than 3,800 students at the school.
In 2025, just over 12 students graduated from 560; three reached ATAR 99.95.
The school is also over capacity; The 2025 cohort exceeds the school’s stated maximum capacity by 17 percent.
Boman said the number of available homes in the school’s area was still increasing as new areas were developed, but turnover was extremely low.
“If you look at Wishart and Mansfield, which are predominantly across most of the catchment, they are some of the longest-lived suburbs in Brisbane,” Boman said.
“Because people buy it and if you have two kids you’re there for 15 years.”
While Domain could not disclose exact search figures due to customer privacy reasons, Mansfield State High had three times as many searches as the second-ranked school, Kelvin Grove State College.
The inner-city college offers Prep up to Year 12, followed by Brisbane State High School, which had the third highest number of searches in 2025.
Area research and economics chief Nicola Powell said more sought-after state schools often put a “price premium” on the area and, in some cases, the value of catchments adjacent to these closely guarded areas had actually fallen.
Powell said location was still important for schools offering out-of-region enrollment through selective entry programmes, such as ninth-placed Queensland Academy of Science, Mathematics and Technology and Brisbane State High School.
“This tells us that buyers are prioritizing ease of living; there’s no way you can live on the other side of town and want to commute every day to drop your kid off at school,” he said.
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