Proximity to schools often tops the list of priorities for families looking to buy property.

Brickworks Park is ideally located to give young minds their best start in life, with a range of schools, early learning facilities and tertiary options within easy reach.

Here’s a selection of what’s available:

Kelvin Grove State College: A five-minute drive away, or approximately 18 minutes by bus, Brickworks Park falls squarely within the catchment area of the Prep to Year 12 college, which has a long-established reputation for academic excellence.

It is also a School of Excellence for in visual arts, engineering technology and Maths C.

Queensland Ballet Academy offers an elite ballet training program for talented students to pursue intensive training while completing face-to-face Senior academic studies in Years 7 to 12 at Kelvin Grove State College.

The college, at L’Estrange Terrace, also offers longstanding Sports Excellence programs in golf, football, volleyball and tennis where students are able to fulfill their passion for learning and incorporate their academic program at the same time.

The college is a Gateway School for engineering, manufacturing and construction, with students and staff interacting with cutting edge industry partners and employers.

Wilston State School:  Brickworks Park is also in the catchment area for Wilston State School. Just two minutes away by car or a about a quarter of an hour’s walk, the school enrols children from Prep to Year 6.

Modern classrooms are airconditioned and fitted with electronic whiteboards. Also featured is a school computer lab, a heated 25 metre pool, covered play areas, and a specialised science classroom.

A before (6.30am-8.30am), after (3pm-6pm) and vacation (6.30am – 6pm) care program operates from the school.

St Columba’s Primary School: Just around the corner from Wilston State School is St Columba’s, founded by the Good Samaritan Sisters more than 100 years ago.

The school, at Kedron Brook Road, Wilston, is proud of its long history of providing high quality education in an environment of the Catholic tradition.

Catering for about 620 students from Prep to Year 6, the school places an emphasis on numeracy and literacy, in addition to an iPad and laptop program.

Almost $8 million has been spent on new buildings and facilities in the past few years as part of a long-term strategy to meet enrolment demand as well as challenges this century is expected to bring.

St Ambrose’s School:  St Ambrose’s, at 23 Davidson Street, Newmarket, is a Catholic primary school which has been dedicated to engaging and inspiring children since 1936.

The school currently has about 270 children enrolled from Prep to Year 6, with approximately 200 families participating in the school community.

St Ambrose’s offers the latest in teaching and learning, technology and extra-curricular activities. Its mission is to provide students with a stimulating curriculum, enriched by Gospel values.

St Ambrose’s Outside School Hours Care is located on site in the Bolton Centre and provides Before School Care 7am to 8.45am and After School Care 2.55pm to 6pm each week of the school term. Vacation Care is offered during the school holiday breaks 7.30am to 6pm daily. Prior to attending OSHC all children must be formally enrolled in the service.

St Ambrose’s provides opportunities for students to engage with new technologies including notebook computers, iPads, iPods, interactive whiteboards, and online tools.

Newmarket State School:  Established in 1904 in Banks Street, the school is practically on the doorstep.

It’s just a shade over 10 minutes away on foot, with a short cut through Sedgley Park off Moran Street making it just under a kilometre away.

Newmarket is a well-regarded school with a range of innovative programs including a robotics club, offering students skills in coding as well as experience in touch, colour and ultrasonic sensors.

It’s not all about academia however.  Last year the school achieved media attention for growing a 25 kilogram pumpkin for one of the Brisbane Exhibition’s most iconic events – the annual pumpkin competition.

The school has an active P&C, which operates a licensed Outside School Hours Care service, located within the school grounds. Care is available for children enrolled in state primary school.

Hillbrook Anglican School : A co-educational school of 780 students, Hillbrook was founded in 1987.

Students are offered a wide range of programs and subjects to help them discover where their passions lie, from music programs to visual and performing arts as well as maths, science and business projects.

At 45 Hurdcotte st, Enoggera, the school is owned and run by teachers, parents and friends of Hillbrook who are invited to become members of Hillbrook Anglican School Limited.

The school refers to its founding as: “If we build it, they will come…” – a line popularised by the 1989 film Field of Dreams. 

According to its website: “In the mid-1980s, a small group of young educators heard an almost identical persistent whispering: ’If we build it, they will come …’

That whisper wouldn’t leave them alone, and in 1987, two years before Field of Dreams was released, another dream magically became a reality.

Northside Christian College: At Flockton Street, Everton Park, the Prep to Year 6 school features small class sizes and a teacher’s aide in every classroom to help children get the most of out their lessons.

While based on the Australian National Curriculum, it offers a Christian world view.

Alongside its academic and vocational programs, learning opportunities arise through extensive co-curricular activities, faith-in-action mission trips, camping programs, overseas student exchanges and sporting interests.

The school’s Prep Centre has classrooms that can be expanded on to the verandah, touch screen computers, interactive whiteboards and a kitchen as an extension of the classroom – so that children can observe and learn basic cooking skills.

Alderley Kindergarten and Preschool: This community based kindergarten at 76 South Pine Road has been providing early childhood education for more than 70 years.

Visits by local emergency services staff, interactive science experiences, Kawaratha Forest excursions and talks by Bunnings team members offering youngsters with insights into such things as worm farms are all part of the activities.

Nurseryland Early Childhood: At 26 Progress Rd, Alderley, the centre caters for children from 15 months to six years.

Nurseryland children develop effective thinking through a “Learn through Play” care program.