Rochedale South Suburb Profile and Insights

Detailed Insights

Rochedale South occupies roughly six square kilometres at the point where Brisbane’s south-eastern suburban area meets northern Logan. Its present streetscape was created largely before the contemporary master-planned expansion of Rochedale to the north, which is why the two localities have markedly different housing, land and neighbourhood structures despite sharing the Rochedale name.

Priestdale Road defines much of the northern boundary against Brisbane’s Rochedale, while Underwood Road forms another important section of the Brisbane-Logan interface. Springwood Road and the Springwood boundary shape the south-east, Underwood lies to the south-west and the Pacific Motorway creates a strong western transport edge. The eastern side grades toward Priestdale and the greener Priest Gully landscape rather than another dense commercial or apartment district.

The terrain is more varied than an aerial view of continuous housing suggests. Rochedale South contains a sequence of low ridges and gullies, with Priest Gully forming the best-known drainage and environmental corridor. Streets can rise noticeably over short distances, and this affects outlook, driveway gradient, lower-level construction, drainage and the amount of level private yard available on otherwise similar blocks.

The suburb’s development history began with farming rather than residential subdivision. The broader Rochedale district supported grapes, citrus, dairying, pineapples and small crops, while large holdings associated with families including the Roches, Grieves, Underwoods, Gills and Langfords occupied land later converted to housing. Present residential streets generally bear little resemblance to working farmland, but the irregular subdivision of those larger holdings explains why block patterns differ between neighbourhoods.

Urban development accelerated during the 1960s as demand for housing expanded south of Brisbane. Logan City historical material records a strong suburban boom in Rochedale South and Springwood from the late 1960s, when developers were purchasing land south of the Brisbane municipal boundary for residential estates. This is the period that established much of the suburb’s long-term physical structure.

The Gill family subdivision is particularly important to the property history. Developed from around 1967, it was recognised locally as an early sewered residential estate and retained street names associated with the family’s English origins, including Green Way, Edgeware Drive, Ridgeway Street, Gills Close and Hindmarsh Court. Houses from this first major suburban period remain embedded through the north-western housing stock.

Green Way demonstrates the underlying land pattern well. Representative sites include approximately 625 to 680 square metres, enough for a modest original house, car accommodation and a substantial rear yard. Many properties have subsequently gained larger kitchens, second bathrooms, additional living areas, decks, sheds or pools without requiring a change to the original title.

Edgeware Drive has an especially strong approximately 607-square-metre pattern. Original and renovated three and four-bedroom houses occupy the same basic parcel size, showing how much the physical dwelling can change while the 1960s subdivision geometry remains intact. Dual street access, corner positions and side-driveway width can make individual sites substantially more useful than their area alone suggests.

Early houses were generally compact by current standards. Three bedrooms, one bathroom, a modest kitchen and separate living or dining rooms were common, while the garage or carport often sat beside or beneath the house rather than being integrated into a wide contemporary facade. The relatively small building footprint left significant outdoor land around many homes.

Timber floors survive through much of this early stock, even where they were later covered by carpet or vinyl. Renovations frequently expose and refinish these floors, remove walls between kitchens and dining rooms and open the rear of the house toward a deck or patio. The building fabric can therefore support substantial modernisation without replacing the entire structure.

Boongeen Street, Devon Street and surrounding roads provide further evidence of the early-1970s housing layer. Surviving houses from around 1970 occupy land commonly between roughly 600 and 700 square metres. The streets are now mature enough that gardens and tree canopy can disguise the comparatively simple original subdivision.

Koobil Street is another useful example. Houses dating from around 1970 remain on sites around 615 to 720 square metres, including level blocks with broad backyards and detached sheds. Three-bedroom brick homes are common, but extensive renovation has introduced additional bathrooms, modern kitchens, decks, pools and much larger vehicle-storage arrangements.

A roughly 716-square-metre Koobil Street property can still contain a modest house, long driveway, rear shed and large lawn. That configuration differs substantially from a new house on the same land where the building, double garage and outdoor entertaining might occupy a much larger proportion of the title. Usable yard therefore depends on dwelling footprint as much as nominal block size.

Woodlands Drive represents another major 1970s development corridor. Houses from the middle of that decade remain on sites around the mid-600-square-metre range, with low-set and two-storey forms both represented. The surrounding drainage catchment has also required substantial Council stormwater upgrades, making drainage infrastructure an important part of this neighbourhood’s physical evolution.

Council’s staged Woodlands Drive master-drainage works have involved Woodlands Drive, Lancelot Street, William Street, local drainage structures and Woodlands Park. The purpose has been to improve stormwater collection and wet-weather performance through an established catchment that was laid out decades before present engineering standards. Individual property flood and overland-flow conditions still need to be checked separately because neighbourhood infrastructure does not make every site hydraulically identical.

Sunningdale Avenue preserves a particularly interesting part of the suburb’s earlier land pattern. The road is associated with the former Springwood estate and still contains isolated very large residential holdings, including land approaching two thousand square metres alongside conventional suburban subdivision. A surviving late-1960s house on approximately 1,850 square metres demonstrates how much larger some remnants are than the dominant 600 to 800-square-metre housing stock.

These larger remnants can provide extraordinary private yard by modern urban standards. Wide lawn, mature trees, multiple outbuildings and extensive vehicle access can coexist around a relatively modest original house. Their size does not automatically establish development rights, and current Low Density Residential zoning and site-specific planning remain central to any reconfiguration proposal.

Somerset Street contains another example of older housing on unusually large land. An early-1970s house on a site above 1,000 square metres shows how isolated historic parcels survived later suburbanisation. Properties at this scale can support extensions, pools and additional buildings while preserving a large garden, although frontage and title configuration determine how efficiently the land can be used.

Beverley Avenue includes holdings around the 900 to 1,000-square-metre scale and has become one of the locations where renovation and redevelopment pressure are especially visible. Large clear blocks can support extensive family houses and pools while retaining meaningful lawn. Renovated houses can therefore compete with newer construction without changing the established title size.

Bart Street has a much more consistent approximately 809-square-metre pattern. Several properties occupy near-identical land areas, creating broad, level or gently graded sites that can support large yards, side access, detached garages and extensive outdoor living. The short cul-de-sac environment further separates these houses from the traffic of nearby Underwood and Rochedale roads.

The houses themselves vary considerably. Some retain three-bedroom configurations derived from late-twentieth-century construction, while others have substantial family rooms, vaulted ceilings, lofts, large decks or extensive sheds. The land has allowed each property to evolve according to owner priorities rather than forcing every renovation into the same compact footprint.

Toufik Street and neighbouring roads contain further 809-square-metre land, while Pindari Street combines large established blocks with a more varied planning environment closer to major roads. These sites are large enough for substantial gardens and side vehicle access, but their redevelopment prospects vary according to zone and frontage rather than area alone.

Pandeen Road has a strong 607-square-metre pattern and sits through more elevated terrain. High-set homes are particularly well suited to this landscape because garages, rumpus rooms and utility areas can occupy the lower level while bedrooms and principal living spaces sit above. Rear decks can capture district views and breezes without requiring the building to occupy more of the block.

The lower level of a high-set house deserves careful interpretation. Many homes have enclosed garage or utility areas over time, adding bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchenettes or recreation rooms. The physical presence of these spaces does not automatically establish that every room is approved for permanent habitable use, and building records remain important where dual living is a significant part of the purchase decision.

Glengala Drive contains a similar elevated housing form on recurring land around 607 square metres. Split-level and two-storey houses can use the fall of the land efficiently, with lower garaging and recreation and upper living. Pools and terraced gardens occur where the rear contour provides enough level space.

Kallista Road is one of the clearest examples of a repeated mid-sized lot pattern. Numerous properties fall around 620 square metres, with others around 650 to 700 square metres. Much of the housing consists of established three-bedroom homes that have been renovated, extended or adapted over time rather than demolished wholesale.

The road also interacts with the Priest Gully and reserve landscape in selected positions. Houses backing vegetation can gain greater separation from rear neighbours and a greener outlook, while the environmental edge can introduce different drainage, vegetation and maintenance considerations from an ordinary fenced rear boundary.

Morbani Road provides another park-edge environment. Representative houses around 617 square metres overlook or adjoin Priest Gully parkland, and large rear decks can use the open green boundary as part of the living outlook. This can make a modest block feel more expansive without giving the owner control over the adjoining reserve.

Minutus Street sits on higher ground in the central-eastern part of the suburb. Sites around 700 square metres support low-set brick houses and larger family homes, while selected elevated positions look over surrounding hills. Minutus Park introduces a substantial vegetated reserve through the neighbourhood rather than another conventional row of houses.

The reserve is managed as natural vegetation as well as recreation land, including planned ecological or hazard-reduction burning in designated sections. Houses beside this type of reserve have a very different rear or side environment from properties beside a manicured playground. Vegetation management, smoke during planned burns and bush interface conditions can be locally relevant even within an otherwise urban suburb.

Passerine Drive has a mature late-twentieth-century character with land commonly between the high-600s and high-700s. Cathedral ceilings, brick construction, pools, broad driveways and multiple-car sheds appear across individual properties. Passerine Park and Priest Gully also provide a substantial green corridor through this pocket.

The creek corridor has an environmental role extending beyond recreation. Community bushcare work at Passerine Park is focused on stabilising Priest Gully banks, improving native vegetation and supporting water quality within the broader Tingalpa Reservoir catchment. Residential properties near this corridor should therefore be understood as adjoining active riparian land rather than vacant open space.

Exilis Street combines established houses, corner blocks and direct access toward the southern park and transport network. Sites around 675 to 680 square metres remain common and provide enough land for a three-bedroom house, additional living rooms and useful private yard. The road also provides connections toward Springwood and Underwood Park without functioning as a major arterial.

Underwood Road is one of the most important dividing and movement corridors through the suburb. Houses directly fronting it include conventional detached properties on land around 600 square metres, while local shops, parks and bus stops are distributed along the road. Traffic exposure, turning access and pedestrian convenience differ substantially from the quieter streets immediately behind it.

The northern side of Underwood Road also interacts directly with the Brisbane boundary in places. Rochedale’s newer estates, schools and busway infrastructure sit only a short distance away, so Rochedale South residents increasingly use services built for the rapidly growing Brisbane-side population. The physical housing south of the boundary remains much older and generally sits on larger land.

Rochedale Road provides the main western north-south surface-road connection. Established houses continue to front the road on sites around 600 square metres and above, while buses and motorway access make it one of the suburb’s most connected addresses. Direct-road property has a different noise and access environment from houses within nearby courts even when the dwelling and land are otherwise similar.

Springwood Road forms the principal southern corridor and is one of the strongest locations for attached housing. It carries buses toward the Springwood and Rochedale busway stations and passes Springwood Road State School, local parks and townhouse communities before continuing into Springwood. Detached houses remain mixed through the corridor, creating a much more varied built form than an apartment-dominated transit strip.

The Palara Street area has one of Rochedale South’s most recognisable villa and townhouse concentrations. Established two-bedroom low-set villas and two-storey townhouses generally include private courtyards and one garage or carport, while some individual titles or exclusive-use areas are substantially larger than the tiny courtyards associated with newer townhouse development.

A Palara Street low-set villa can provide step-free living, a fenced courtyard and mature common landscaping without the maintenance of a 700-square-metre house block. Two-storey dwellings use a smaller ground footprint while separating bedrooms from living areas. Body corporate levies, insurance, by-laws and maintenance responsibilities need to be compared alongside internal floor area.

Dorset Drive contains another diverse attached-housing market. Some complexes are small groups with only a dozen residences, while others contain a larger number of homes. Individual properties can have surprisingly generous private or exclusive-use land, including examples with several hundred square metres associated with the dwelling.

This land should not automatically be interpreted as ordinary freehold yard. Title boundaries, common property and exclusive-use rights differ between schemes, and the practical maintenance responsibility can be more important than the headline area quoted in a listing. Garages, visitor parking and internal driveway configuration also vary significantly between complexes.

Kumbari Street combines detached houses with an established townhouse enclave. The attached stock includes both low-set and two-storey brick dwellings, commonly with two or three bedrooms, private courtyards and one or two car spaces. Some units have land components around 120 to more than 200 square metres, giving them more external space than many contemporary townhouse developments.

The low-rise architecture gives these complexes a distinctly suburban character. Buildings sit within landscaped parent parcels rather than above basement parking or podium structures, and many have mature trees and shared lawns. The trade-off is that external building fabric and common grounds are older and need an appropriate long-term maintenance program.

Tolverne Street contains a similar mix of detached houses and townhouses. Complexes around the street offer two and three-bedroom dwellings, private courtyards and relatively modest common infrastructure. Detached houses on larger 800-square-metre-class land remain nearby, creating an unusually broad choice of property scale within one street.

Chamberlain Avenue adds another established townhouse environment. Two-bedroom homes with private courtyards and shared internal access are common, providing a lower-maintenance alternative close to schools, parks and the Springwood commercial area. Again, the property should be compared through title, courtyard, parking and body corporate position rather than simply bedroom count.

The attached market remains overwhelmingly ground oriented. Rochedale South has no significant high-rise apartment district, and conventional apartments are a very small part of the physical streetscape. Even where Low-Medium or Medium Density Residential zoning occurs, existing housing generally takes the form of villas, townhouses, duplexes and small multiple-dwelling projects.

Detached housing therefore continues to determine the suburb’s visual character. Mature gardens, driveways, carports, garages and substantial private yards remain the norm across most streets. The strongest changes are occurring one lot at a time rather than through complete neighbourhood clearance.

Later infill has introduced smaller freehold house sites in selected places. Parcels around 450 to 550 square metres occur where larger historic lots have been divided or where earlier subdivisions used smaller dimensions. These houses generally have more internal accommodation relative to land and less capacity for broad lawns or secondary sheds than the older 700 to 800-square-metre stock.

Replacement housing is similarly more site intensive. A new two-storey house can place four or five bedrooms, double garaging and several living spaces onto a 600-square-metre block that originally carried a small three-bedroom low-set home. The remaining garden may be concentrated behind or beside the house rather than wrapping around it.

This is changing street appearance gradually. A renovated 1970s brick home can sit beside a contemporary rendered or masonry residence, while an original high-set remains on the next property. Mature street trees and the unchanged road layout still bind these buildings into one established neighbourhood.

Large sheds and additional vehicle accommodation are a recurring advantage of older blocks. Long side driveways can lead to detached garages at the rear, preserving the original front carport or garage for everyday vehicles. Tradies, households with trailers and owners of recreational equipment can therefore find storage combinations that are difficult to reproduce on compact estates.

Pools are common but far from universal. On 700 to 800-square-metre land, a pool can be added while retaining lawn and entertaining space. On a 607-square-metre site with a large extension or replacement house, the same pool can consume most of the remaining backyard.

Corner properties often provide especially useful access. A second street frontage can allow separate entry to a shed, additional parking or a more flexible future building arrangement. Any development implication still depends on the current planning scheme and title rather than the geometry alone.

Most residential land remains Low Density Residential under the current Logan Planning Scheme. Smaller Low-Medium Density and Medium Density Residential areas are concentrated around selected corridors and established attached-housing sites, while Centre, Community Facilities, Recreation and Open Space and Environmental Management and Conservation land create additional non-residential pockets.

Current development activity demonstrates continuing but incremental change. One-into-two lot proposals, secondary dwellings, dual occupancies and small groups of townhouses appear among ordinary renovations, sheds and extensions. The suburb is therefore accommodating additional housing without converting wholesale into a high-density centre.

The existence of successful subdivision elsewhere should not be treated as a precedent for every large lot. Minimum dimensions, road frontage, services, stormwater, existing buildings, easements, overlays and zone provisions can alter what is possible between neighbouring properties. A 900-square-metre block may be exceptionally useful as one large homesite even where a smaller property elsewhere has been divided.

The draft Logan Plan introduces another future planning layer, but the existing Logan Planning Scheme remains the operative framework while Council works through the replacement scheme process. Proposed zoning should therefore be separated from current development rights when assessing a property.

Drainage conditions vary markedly across the suburb because of its ridges and gullies. Priest Gully is the main natural corridor on the eastern side, while a network of smaller drainage lines and engineered systems carries runoff from elevated residential streets. Lower parks and drainage reserves can temporarily carry substantial water even when houses on nearby higher ground remain unaffected.

Council has invested heavily in stormwater infrastructure through the Woodlands Drive catchment. This reflects the reality of an older suburb whose original subdivision predates modern drainage expectations. Buyers should check Council flood and overland-flow mapping for the individual lot rather than generalising from the suburb’s elevated reputation or from the condition of one nearby property.

The eastern environmental transition is also relevant to vegetation. Priestdale contains much more extensive bushland immediately beyond Rochedale South, and corridors through Priest Gully and local reserves bring native vegetation into the suburb. Houses beside these areas can gain privacy and habitat while having a more active interface with vegetation than a fully enclosed suburban backyard.

Minutus Park adds another bushland element within the residential grid. Planned burns and vegetation management occur because the reserve contains genuine natural-area values rather than being maintained entirely as lawn. This produces a distinctly different edge from Baroona Park or the smaller playground reserves.

The suburb’s distributed park system is extensive. Baroona Park provides a playground, picnic space and large dog off-leash area, Passerine Park adds basketball, fitness equipment and playground facilities, and Parfrey Road Park, Mountain View Park, Langford Park, Denny Way Park, Wendron Park, Belmore Park, Bill Kohlmann Park, Carrick Park and Woodlands Park provide smaller neighbourhood recreation.

These parks create numerous houses with reserve frontage or short walking access to green space. A park-edge property can gain an open outlook or direct pedestrian connection while experiencing more public movement and activity than an internal fenced boundary. The specific facilities and hours of use matter more than the generic label park frontage.

Underwood Park is the major district-level recreation destination immediately beside the suburb but is physically in Priestdale. Its extensive grounds include football and rugby league, cricket, netball, BMX and cycling facilities, skate areas, playgrounds, fitness equipment, picnic spaces, dog exercise areas and lagoon-side recreation. The distinction is important because many Rochedale South clubs use Underwood Park even though the facility lies outside the suburb boundary.

The resulting property geography has several recognisable layers. The north-west contains some of the earliest late-1960s and early-1970s housing. The central and northern established streets contain large amounts of 1970s brick and high-set housing on 600 to 750-square-metre land, while pockets of 800 to 1,000-square-metre blocks create larger-yard alternatives.

Elevated eastern and central streets around Pandeen, Kallista, Minutus, Morbani and Passerine have a stronger relationship with ridges, gullies and parkland. The southern side around Springwood Road, Dorset Drive, Palara Street, Kumbari Street, Chamberlain Avenue and Tolverne Street contains the strongest townhouse and villa layer. Underwood and Rochedale roads provide the busiest residential frontages and strongest direct transport access.

Rochedale South therefore needs to be compared at street and property level rather than by suburb averages alone. A 607-square-metre high-set on an elevated road, an 809-square-metre low-set cul-de-sac property, a 1,000-square-metre historic remnant and a two-bedroom courtyard villa can all sit within a short drive of one another while offering completely different land, maintenance and ownership structures.

Lifestyle

Rochedale South combines the routines of a mature detached-house suburb with access to one of South East Queensland’s strongest transport and service corridors. Most households live among established gardens and private yards rather than within dense urban centres, yet major retail, schools, busway stations and motorway connections sit close enough to shape everyday life.

The older house blocks are central to the lifestyle. A three-bedroom home on 650 to 800 square metres can still provide a large lawn, shaded garden, covered entertaining area and side vehicle access without requiring an unusually large or complex house. Mature trees and decades of landscaping give many streets an enclosed residential feel that newer estates need years to develop.

The largest blocks expand that private outdoor space considerably. An 809-square-metre Bart Street property can support a large shed, broad lawn and entertaining deck while leaving room for a pool or productive garden. Scattered 900 to 1,000-square-metre holdings can provide a level of vehicle and yard flexibility increasingly uncommon this close to Brisbane.

Traditional high-set housing supports another lifestyle pattern. Cars, workshops, laundries and recreation rooms can occupy the lower floor while the main bedrooms and living spaces sit above. The arrangement can suit households needing hobby space or teenage retreat areas without consuming the backyard with a major extension.

Upper decks are particularly effective on elevated streets. Pandeen Road, Minutus Street and similar pockets can capture breezes and district views across surrounding roofs and vegetation. The additional level also allows living spaces to remain relatively private even where neighbouring houses are close by urban standards.

Low-set brick housing provides a different advantage. Direct garden access and minimal internal stairs suit young children, older residents and households wanting uncomplicated everyday movement between kitchen, patio and yard. Many of these houses have been renovated without losing their original single-level practicality.

Pools have become common additions throughout the detached-house market. On larger blocks they can coexist with substantial lawn and garden, while smaller 600-square-metre properties often organise most rear outdoor space around the pool and covered entertaining area. The usable yard remaining after a pool is therefore worth comparing carefully.

Detached sheds are another recurring lifestyle asset. Older subdivision patterns often left enough width beside the house for vehicle access to the rear, allowing a workshop, caravan bay or second garage to be built away from the street. This can be particularly useful for trades, car enthusiasts and households storing camping or recreational equipment.

Renovated houses increasingly use the yard as an extension of the interior. Large rear decks, outdoor kitchens and covered patios have replaced the small back steps and basic concrete areas of many original homes. On park-edge properties, these spaces can look beyond the private fence toward trees rather than another house.

The suburb’s townhouse and villa market gives households another way to remain in the area with far less external maintenance. Palara Street, Dorset Drive, Kumbari Street, Tolverne Street and Chamberlain Avenue contain low-set and two-storey homes with private courtyards rather than full suburban yards. Shared landscaping and common driveways reduce individual maintenance while body corporate obligations replace some of the direct ownership responsibility.

Low-set villas can be particularly practical for downsizers wanting to avoid stairs. Many retain a private courtyard, garden bed, one car space and more ground-level independence than an apartment. Mature complex landscaping can create useful shade and separation that compact new developments do not yet have.

Two-storey townhouses generally provide greater bedroom separation on smaller land. Living, kitchen and courtyard occupy the ground level while bedrooms sit above, allowing a two or three-bedroom home to fit within a comparatively compact footprint. Visitor parking and the size of private courtyards vary enough that the individual complex is more important than the generic townhouse label.

Local shopping is unusually convenient from the central and northern suburb. Rochedale Shopping Village on Underwood Road provides a full-line Drakes supermarket, pharmacy, medical, dental, pathology, optometry, fitness, post office, food and personal services. Many nearby houses can reach routine groceries without travelling to a major regional centre.

The shopping village has served the district since the original Strathlands centre opened during the early suburban-development era. Its continued position within an established residential area means surrounding streets combine older housing with one of the suburb’s strongest walkable service clusters. Houses immediately beside the centre experience more pedestrian and vehicle activity than quieter internal courts.

Springwood expands the shopping choice immediately south. Springwood Mall, Arndale Shopping Centre, supermarkets, medical businesses, restaurants and professional services sit close to the Springwood Road and Palara Street side of Rochedale South. Attached-housing residents in this southern pocket can consequently have a much more walkable daily routine than households in the northern detached-house streets.

Underwood provides another major commercial direction. Its Logan Road and surrounding retail district includes supermarkets, large-format household shopping, Asian groceries, restaurants, fitness and professional services. The western side of Rochedale South can reach these businesses without crossing the Brisbane CBD-bound motorway network.

Newer Rochedale immediately north adds another service layer. Rochedale Village, newer dining and retail and expanding residential facilities are accessible across the municipal boundary. Rochedale South residents therefore benefit from investment in the newer Brisbane suburb without sharing its compact-lot residential form.

Upper Mount Gravatt and Sunnybank extend the range considerably. Westfield Mt Gravatt provides major department-store, fashion, dining, entertainment and service choices, while Sunnybank and Eight Mile Plains offer large Asian supermarkets, restaurants, medical services and specialty food businesses. These centres are close enough for normal weekly use rather than occasional regional trips.

Public parks are distributed through Rochedale South instead of being concentrated into one large central reserve. This gives many detached-house streets a neighbourhood playground or green space within a relatively short walk. The quality of local recreation therefore depends strongly on the particular pocket.

Baroona Park combines playground and picnic facilities with a large dog off-leash area. Its Brompton Street setting makes it a practical everyday park for surrounding residents, particularly households whose own yards are smaller or whose dogs need more exercise than a suburban block provides.

Passerine Park has a broader activity mix. Basketball, fitness equipment and playground facilities sit alongside Priest Gully and restoration areas, allowing organised exercise and environmental open space to coexist. The creek-side setting makes it visually different from a conventional grassed suburban park.

Mountain View Park, Langford Park, Parfrey Road Park, Denny Way Park, Belmore Park and Wendron Park provide additional playground and picnic opportunities. Their modest scale makes them local extensions of the surrounding streets rather than regional destinations. Residents can use them casually without the parking and crowds associated with a major sporting complex.

Woodlands Park provides green space within the northern housing area and has also formed part of major drainage infrastructure works. Its role is therefore both recreational and hydraulic, a common characteristic of established suburban parks that occupy drainage corridors.

Minutus Park offers a substantially more natural environment. Native vegetation, tracks and reserve management distinguish it from the small playground parks, and surrounding houses can feel much closer to bushland despite remaining within a fully urban suburb. Planned burning and vegetation management form part of maintaining that reserve.

Priestdale Park on the eastern side includes a large dog off-leash area and sits close to the transition toward the greener Priestdale landscape. From this edge, the surrounding neighbourhood becomes less visually enclosed by continuous housing and more influenced by creek and environmental land.

Underwood Park is the major recreation destination for the wider district even though it is across the boundary in Priestdale. Rugby league, football, cricket, netball, BMX, mountain biking, skate facilities, playgrounds, fitness equipment, dog exercise areas, lagoons and picnic facilities support a much broader range of activity than any single Rochedale South neighbourhood park.

Families involved in organised sport can therefore have training and competition very close to home. The concentration of clubs reduces the need to cross Logan for every weekend activity, although traffic around the complex naturally increases during busy sporting periods.

The suburb’s two government primary schools also shape daily routines. Rochedale South State School serves the northern and central area from Wendron Street, while Springwood Road State School serves another large part of the southern side. Houses close to either campus experience concentrated school-period movement while gaining a potentially short journey for eligible students.

Secondary school travel generally crosses a suburb boundary. Rochedale State High School sits north in Brisbane and Springwood State High School lies to the south in Springwood. The direction used by a particular family depends on current catchment eligibility rather than simply choosing whichever campus appears closest.

Nearby non-government schools broaden the education environment considerably. Redeemer Lutheran College and St Peter’s Primary School are immediately north in Rochedale, while Calvary Christian College and other schools are available through Springwood and the surrounding southside. The suburb therefore sits among a dense school network despite containing only government primary campuses itself.

Walking varies by pocket. Houses around Rochedale Shopping Village, the primary schools and the Springwood Road commercial edge can have genuine everyday destinations within walking distance, while many internal streets remain primarily recreational walking environments rather than places from which all errands can be completed on foot.

Topography changes the effort involved. Elevated streets provide outlook and breezes but can require noticeable climbs on foot, especially around the ridge-and-gully areas east of the central suburb. The same kilometre can feel quite different from a flatter route around Underwood Road.

The mature street network creates numerous cul-de-sacs and looping residential roads. These reduce through traffic and provide quieter walking for surrounding households, but they can also make direct pedestrian journeys longer unless a park path or walkway creates a connection between streets.

Cycling has improved through the regional transport upgrades. The Pacific Motorway project extended the V1 Veloway and added pedestrian and bicycle links around the Rochedale bus station corridor, while local paths connect through parks and residential streets. Reaching the regional cycling network still depends on the exact side of the suburb and the quality of the local-road approach.

Rochedale South’s mature tree cover also affects the feel of walking. Established street and private vegetation provides more shade than a new subdivision, while creek reserves and bushland introduce sections where vegetation dominates the view. Houses with large front setbacks contribute additional garden space to the street even though it remains private.

The Pacific Motorway is close but does not define every residential environment. Some western properties have an obvious relationship with motorway infrastructure, while houses deeper into the suburb can have little visual awareness of it. Terrain, buildings, road cuttings and vegetation alter noise substantially over short distances.

This makes inspection at different times useful for buyers sensitive to road sound. A quiet weekend open home does not always represent weekday peak conditions, while a property that appears close to the motorway on a map can be surprisingly screened by intervening land.

The same principle applies to Springwood Road and Underwood Road. Direct frontage offers convenient buses and faster regional movement but carries more traffic. Moving one or two streets behind either corridor can preserve nearly the same access while creating a quieter residential setting.

Rochedale South also has a stronger relationship with Brisbane than many Logan suburbs because the municipal boundary is immediately adjacent. Employment in Upper Mount Gravatt, Sunnybank, Eight Mile Plains, Rochedale and Brisbane’s inner south can all be reached without first travelling through central Logan. At the same time, Springwood, Underwood and Logan Central remain accessible for southward employment and services.

This dual orientation is reflected in ordinary household behaviour. One resident can commute north toward Brisbane while another works in Springwood, Meadowbrook or elsewhere in Logan, and the same road network supports both. The busway strengthens the Brisbane-facing side without removing the suburb’s Logan connections.

Renovation activity has also changed the social use of the housing stock. Original three-bedroom homes that once suited smaller post-war families can now contain four or five bedrooms, dual living, home offices and extensive entertaining. The existing land has allowed these homes to adapt rather than becoming obsolete as household expectations changed.

Working from home is particularly practical where a high-set lower level, detached shed or large spare bedroom can be used as office space. The widespread availability of HFC and other NBN connections through the suburb supports remote work without the communications constraints of rural acreage.

Large blocks also accommodate multigenerational households more readily than compact estates, although lawful secondary-dwelling or dual-living arrangements still need to be confirmed. An older house can provide separate lower-level space, while a sufficiently large yard can accommodate an approved secondary dwelling where planning and building requirements are met.

Rochedale South consequently supports several distinct everyday lifestyles within one established locality. The large-block detached streets prioritise private yard and storage, the ridge pockets add views and parkland, townhouse areas trade land for lower maintenance and southern corridors place shopping and buses unusually close to home. The suburb’s mature form allows these choices without depending on a single new master-planned centre.

Travel

Rochedale South sits beside one of South East Queensland’s principal north-south transport corridors. The Pacific Motorway runs along the western edge and provides direct movement toward Brisbane to the north and the central and southern parts of Logan and the Gold Coast to the south. The Gateway Motorway interchange is immediately beyond the northern edge, creating strong access toward Brisbane Airport and the eastern side of the metropolitan area.

The motorway relationship changed materially through the completed Eight Mile Plains to Daisy Hill upgrade. The corridor now includes additional motorway capacity, the South East Busway extension through to Springwood, the new Rochedale bus station and park-and-ride and an extended V1 Veloway. These are existing 2026 transport assets rather than proposed future infrastructure.

Rochedale bus station sits at the Underwood Road and School Road area immediately beside the northern boundary rather than deep within Rochedale South. Its park-and-ride has capacity for roughly 485 vehicles and includes kiss-and-ride, bicycle storage, pedestrian links and direct access to the dedicated busway. Northern Rochedale South households can therefore reach high-capacity public transport without travelling first to Eight Mile Plains.

Springwood bus station provides another major interchange immediately south. The dedicated busway now connects it north through Rochedale toward Eight Mile Plains and the established South East Busway network. Residents on the Springwood Road side can often use Springwood station as naturally as Rochedale station.

Local bus services also run directly through Rochedale South. Springwood Road carries frequent services between Springwood, the Brisbane busway network and surrounding suburbs, while Underwood Road supports another cross-suburb route. Some services continue directly toward Brisbane City or major busway stations, reducing the need for every passenger to drive to a park-and-ride.

The practical value of these buses varies greatly by street. A townhouse on Springwood Road or Palara Street can be within an easy walk of frequent service, while a detached house deep in an internal cul-de-sac may still use a private car for the first leg. Walking topography and road crossings can matter as much as the straight-line distance to a stop.

Rochedale Road is the principal western surface-road spine. It connects north into Brisbane’s Rochedale and toward Eight Mile Plains and south into Springwood. Motorway ramps and nearby intersections give it a regional role beyond its local residential frontage.

Houses directly on Rochedale Road gain very fast road access but experience more through traffic, turning movements and bus activity. Deep front setbacks, fencing and vegetation can moderate this relationship on individual properties, while nearby parallel streets provide similar access with less direct exposure.

Underwood Road runs east-west through the northern and central part of the suburb and connects Rochedale Road with shopping, parks and Priestdale. It also carries local buses and forms part of the route toward the Rochedale busway station. Rochedale Shopping Village, Passerine Park and several residential pockets depend directly on this corridor.

Underwood Road changes character along its length. Around the shopping village it has a stronger pedestrian and retail role, while farther east the road passes parkland and the greener Priest Gully environment. Residential frontage therefore ranges from busy local-centre property to houses facing a more open environmental edge.

Springwood Road performs a comparable function on the southern side. It links Rochedale South with Springwood station, Springwood’s commercial centre and the local primary school. Townhouse complexes cluster near the corridor because the transport and shopping environment supports lower-maintenance housing particularly well.

Living immediately beside Springwood Road means accepting more frequent buses and local traffic. A property in the first internal street can retain very similar access with a more conventional residential soundscape, making street position important when comparing otherwise similar townhouses or houses.

Parfrey Road is another useful local connector through the central suburb. It links established housing with parks and the larger road network without carrying the same regional traffic volume as Rochedale or Springwood roads. Detached houses remain the dominant frontage.

Woodlands Drive distributes traffic through the northern and central residential grid. Its drainage-upgrade program has progressively involved road and stormwater works, reflecting its role as both a neighbourhood movement corridor and part of the local catchment infrastructure.

Kallista Road, Glengala Drive, Passerine Drive and Exilis Street provide important internal connections through the eastern and central areas. They serve large numbers of houses but remain residential roads rather than regional arterials. Their usefulness lies in connecting cul-de-sacs and local streets back to Underwood and Springwood roads.

The suburb contains numerous short courts and cul-de-sacs. Bart Street, Toufik Street and similar pockets have very little through traffic, giving them a noticeably quieter vehicle environment. The trade-off is that every external journey first returns to a collector road rather than having several equivalent exits.

The road network was laid out before contemporary pedestrian permeability became a central estate-design principle. Some cul-de-sacs connect through parks or paths, while others require walkers to follow the same indirect route as vehicles. Two houses that are close across a reserve can therefore have quite different walking access to the same bus stop or shop.

The Pacific Motorway remains the fastest regional route for many households. Northbound travel reaches Eight Mile Plains, Upper Mount Gravatt and Brisbane, while southbound travel reaches Springwood, Loganholme, Beenleigh and the Gold Coast corridor. Access times are short, but actual peak journeys remain sensitive to metropolitan traffic conditions.

The Gateway connection broadens regional travel considerably. Brisbane Airport, the Port of Brisbane and eastern metropolitan suburbs can be reached without travelling through the Brisbane CBD. This is particularly valuable for airport, logistics and industrial employment across Brisbane’s south-east.

Local employment does not require motorway travel for every household. Springwood and Underwood contain substantial retail, professional and commercial employment immediately to the south and west, while Rochedale and Eight Mile Plains provide further offices, retail and service employment just across the Brisbane boundary.

Meadowbrook and Loganlea add major health, education and employment facilities farther south. Logan Hospital and the surrounding health precinct can be reached through the Logan road network without travelling into Brisbane.

There is no railway station within Rochedale South. Kuraby, Altandi and other Brisbane stations lie to the west or north-west, while Loganlea and surrounding stations serve the rail corridor farther south. For most public-transport commuters, the dedicated busway is the more direct rapid-transit option.

Kuraby station can still be useful for rail journeys on the Beenleigh line, particularly from the western side of the suburb. Reaching it requires a local road or bus trip rather than walking from most Rochedale South homes, so it should not be described as an internal station amenity.

The busway provides a more natural Brisbane CBD connection because buses can enter the dedicated corridor and continue through major southside stations toward the city. Rochedale and Springwood stations give households a choice of boarding point depending on their street and direction of travel.

School travel is unusually varied. Rochedale South State School and Springwood Road State School can be within a short local trip for eligible primary students, while secondary students may travel north to Rochedale State High School or south to Springwood State High School according to catchment.

Private-school travel can be even shorter for some households. Redeemer Lutheran College and St Peter’s Primary School sit immediately north in Rochedale, making sections of northern Rochedale South closer to those campuses than to schools elsewhere within Logan.

Dedicated school services operate through parts of the suburb, but routes and eligibility change with school and student circumstances. They should be checked directly rather than inferred from an old bus stop or the presence of another school service on the same road.

Walking to local primary schools is realistic from parts of the suburb. Wendron Street, Underwood Road, Springwood Road and surrounding residential streets provide relatively short connections, although peak school traffic and crossing conditions remain part of the journey.

The ridge-and-gully topography can make walking more demanding in eastern pockets. A route that looks short on a flat map can include a noticeable climb, particularly around Pandeen, Minutus and the roads approaching Priest Gully. Lower western and central streets are generally less demanding.

Shopping trips can be unusually short. Rochedale Shopping Village provides a supermarket and substantial services within the locality, while Springwood Mall and Arndale lie just to the south. Many households can therefore avoid the motorway entirely for routine groceries and pharmacy needs.

Larger retail points in several directions reduce dependence on one congested corridor. Westfield Mt Gravatt can be reached north-west, Underwood’s retail area lies west and south-west, Sunnybank and Eight Mile Plains lie north-west and newer Rochedale retail is immediately north.

Cycling infrastructure has improved significantly around the motorway. The V1 Veloway extension and shared-use connections associated with the M1 and busway upgrade provide a separated regional spine for experienced commuters and recreational riders. Local access from the eastern half of Rochedale South still depends on residential streets and crossings before reaching that corridor.

The Rochedale bus station includes bicycle storage and direct pedestrian and cycling connections. This supports mixed-mode commuting where a resident rides from home, leaves the bicycle at the station and continues by bus. Its usefulness is strongest from the north-western and central parts of the suburb.

Internal park paths provide additional recreational walking and cycling links. Priest Gully, Passerine Park and various neighbourhood reserves create green connections, although they do not form a complete continuous off-road transport network across the whole locality.

Vehicle storage varies significantly with property type. Detached houses on 700 to 900-square-metre blocks can have long driveways, carports, garages and rear sheds capable of accommodating several cars or trailers. Some renovated properties have four or more covered spaces without using the street.

A 607-square-metre block can still provide substantial parking where the house is compact and side access survives. Replacement houses and large extensions can remove that flexibility even when the title area remains unchanged. Driveway width is therefore worth assessing directly rather than relying on land size.

Townhouses usually have one garage or carport, sometimes supplemented by a second driveway space and shared visitor parking. Complexes differ considerably in how much informal parking is available, and residents should understand by-laws governing use of common roads and visitor bays.

Properties on major roads need a different vehicle assessment. Turning into fast or busy traffic, reversing from driveways and accommodating several household cars can be more important than total yard area. Where a site allows vehicles to turn internally before entering the road, daily use can be substantially easier.

Rochedale South’s transport environment is therefore highly efficient without being uniform. Western streets have the fastest motorway and busway relationship, Underwood Road provides the strongest east-west local connection, Springwood Road favours bus and Springwood access and quiet internal courts prioritise residential calm. The suburb’s compact size means these differences occur within only a few kilometres of one another.

Schools & Amenities

Rochedale South contains two government primary schools: Rochedale South State School on Wendron Street and Springwood Road State School on Springwood Road. There is no government secondary school physically within the suburb, so secondary education involves nearby campuses in Rochedale, Springwood or other surrounding areas according to current enrolment eligibility.

Rochedale South State School provides Prep to Year 6 education and operates under a School Enrolment Management Plan. Its current catchment is defined through official Education Queensland mapping, with in-catchment students receiving priority and out-of-catchment enrolments restricted according to capacity. The campus sits within an established residential pocket rather than beside a large commercial centre.

Wendron Park and surrounding residential streets place the school within a mature suburban environment. Houses nearby can have a short school journey while experiencing more vehicle and pedestrian activity around morning arrival and afternoon pickup. Council provides specific school-parking guidance for the Wendron Street area because kerbside management is an important part of peak school periods.

Springwood Road State School provides another Prep to Year 6 government option within Rochedale South. Its position directly on Springwood Road makes it particularly accessible to the southern and south-eastern neighbourhoods and to nearby townhouse communities. The same road also carries scheduled buses and substantial local traffic.

The two primary schools serve different parts of the suburb under current catchment arrangements. A Rochedale South address should therefore be checked through current EdMap information rather than assuming the school with the suburb name is automatically the local campus.

Rochedale State High School is immediately north in Brisbane’s Rochedale and provides Years 7 to 12. It operates under an enrolment management plan with a negotiated catchment and is physically outside Logan City despite being a major secondary school for relevant Rochedale South addresses.

Springwood State High School provides another nearby government secondary campus to the south. Individual Rochedale South properties can have different secondary-school relationships depending on their location, so proximity to either high school is not a substitute for checking the current catchment.

St Peter’s Primary School is a Catholic Prep to Year 6 school immediately north in Rochedale. The campus occupies substantial landscaped grounds on Rochedale Road and serves families from Rochedale South as well as surrounding Brisbane and Logan suburbs.

Redeemer Lutheran College is also in Rochedale rather than Rochedale South. The independent co-educational college provides Prep to Year 12 education on a large campus close to the northern boundary, making it especially convenient from Rochedale Road, Underwood Road and the north-western residential pockets.

Additional independent and Catholic schooling is available through Springwood, Daisy Hill, Eight Mile Plains, Sunnybank and other nearby southside suburbs. This gives Rochedale South households substantial choice within a relatively small driving radius even though the locality itself contains only the two government primary campuses.

Rochedale Shopping Village is the principal everyday shopping centre within the suburb. Logan City records place the centre on Underwood Road in Rochedale South, although some centre branding and postal references use the broader Rochedale name. The location is directly integrated into the established residential street network.

A full-line Drakes supermarket anchors the centre, supported by pharmacy, general medical, dental, pathology, optometry, fitness, post office, travel, food and personal-service businesses. The centre therefore handles substantially more than top-up groceries and can support many routine household errands in one location.

The shopping centre has a long connection with the suburb’s development. The original Strathlands Shopping Centre opened as the surrounding housing estates were being created and evolved into the present Rochedale Shopping Village. Its continued operation provides an unusual degree of continuity between the first suburban generation and the current community.

Southern Rochedale South has very convenient access to Springwood shopping. Arndale Shopping Centre and Springwood Mall sit immediately beyond the suburb and provide supermarkets, food, services and additional medical and professional businesses. Townhouse pockets around Palara Street, Kumbari Street and Springwood Road are particularly close to this commercial area.

Underwood provides another substantial shopping direction. Supermarkets, Asian grocery businesses, restaurants, bulky-goods retail, homewares and professional services are concentrated around Logan Road, Compton Road and surrounding commercial streets. Western Rochedale South households can reach these areas without travelling toward central Brisbane.

Rochedale’s newer village centre immediately north provides additional supermarkets, food, fitness and services. This gives Rochedale South access to contemporary retail built as part of Brisbane’s newer residential expansion while the older Logan-side shopping centre continues to operate independently.

Westfield Mt Gravatt is the nearest major regional shopping and entertainment centre and provides department stores, supermarkets, cinema, dining, fashion and major services. Sunnybank and Eight Mile Plains provide another large concentration of restaurants, Asian supermarkets and specialist food retail within a short drive.

Routine medical care is available at and around Rochedale Shopping Village as well as through Springwood, Underwood and Rochedale. General practices, pharmacy, pathology, dental and allied-health businesses are therefore distributed across several nearby centres rather than requiring a hospital trip for everyday care.

Logan Hospital at Meadowbrook is the principal major public hospital to the south and provides emergency, inpatient, specialist and maternity services. Brisbane hospitals remain another option to the north, reflecting Rochedale South’s position between the Logan and Brisbane health networks.

Underwood Park is the most significant sporting and recreation complex in the immediate district but is located in Priestdale. Its facilities support rugby league through the Rochedale Tigers, football through Rochedale Rovers, cricket, outdoor netball, BMX, mountain biking, Girl Guides and other community activities.

The park also contains playgrounds, fitness equipment, picnic and barbecue facilities, skate infrastructure, dog off-leash areas, toilets and lagoon-side open space. Underwood Lagoon extends the environmental setting with wetland habitat, boardwalk and viewing areas nearby.

Passerine Park is one of Rochedale South’s most substantial internal neighbourhood parks. Basketball facilities, outdoor fitness equipment and a playground sit beside Priest Gully and restored native vegetation. This combination makes the park useful for active recreation while preserving a natural creek corridor through the suburb.

Baroona Park on Brompton Street contains a large dog off-leash area together with playground and picnic facilities. It provides a practical local exercise space for dog owners who may otherwise have substantial private yards but want a larger social off-leash environment.

Priestdale Park on Priestdale Road provides another large dog off-leash area near the eastern boundary. Its location places it close to the transition from developed Rochedale South into the more heavily vegetated Priestdale landscape.

Parfrey Road Park, Mountain View Park, Langford Park and Denny Way Park provide playground and picnic facilities embedded among residential streets. Their smaller scale allows children’s recreation and casual outdoor use without the organised sport and visitor traffic associated with Underwood Park.

Bill Kohlmann Park provides a playground near the southern side, while Carrick Park adds another small playground within the western residential grid. These facilities are particularly relevant to households on smaller lots or in attached housing where private outdoor space is limited.

Woodlands Park provides picnic facilities and neighbourhood green space within the Woodlands Drive area. It has also formed part of the suburb’s major drainage-upgrade program, showing how public open space and stormwater infrastructure are integrated within this older residential catchment.

Minutus Park provides a more natural form of open space. Its substantial vegetation is actively managed through Council’s planned-burning program, and surrounding streets gain a bushland interface rather than a conventional playground reserve. This environmental character is unusual within a suburb otherwise dominated by established residential lots.

Wendron Park sits close to Rochedale South State School and adds a playground within the northern residential area. The school, park and surrounding mature streets create one of the suburb’s strongest clusters of everyday local infrastructure.

Belmore Park on Underwood Road provides another playground and picnic area, while Graham Hogg Park preserves a small but historically significant green space near the old farming and early residential corridor. The suburb’s parks are therefore distributed widely rather than concentrated around one central civic precinct.

The Priest Gully corridor has an ecological role beyond its appearance as parkland. Community restoration work at Passerine Park focuses on creek-bank stability, water quality and native habitat because the gully contributes to the wider Tingalpa Reservoir drinking-water catchment. Properties adjoining this land gain a green outlook while sitting beside a working environmental corridor.

Public-library services are provided through the wider Logan library network rather than a branch physically inside Rochedale South. Springwood Library is the most obvious nearby permanent branch and is integrated with Springwood’s broader civic and commercial centre.

Springwood also provides a substantial range of community, fitness, medical and professional facilities that function as part of daily life for southern Rochedale South households. The boundary between the suburbs is much less significant in practical service use than it is for property and school-catchment accuracy.

The new Rochedale bus station adds an important transport amenity immediately beside the suburb’s northern edge. Its park-and-ride, dedicated busway platforms, pedestrian bridge and bicycle facilities provide rapid public-transport access without requiring residents to travel first to central Brisbane or a railway station.

The completed busway extension to Springwood means the southern side has equally strong access to a major busway interchange. The transport infrastructure effectively brackets Rochedale South between two rapid-bus stations while local bus services continue through the suburb itself.

Amenity access consequently varies more by pocket than by overall suburb distance. Northern houses are particularly close to Rochedale schools, newer retail and Rochedale bus station. Central streets have the strongest relationship with Rochedale Shopping Village and local parks, while the southern attached-housing area is close to Springwood shops, Springwood station and the larger commercial centre.

The eastern side gains the strongest access to Priest Gully, Underwood Park and the greener Priestdale boundary. Western streets sit closest to the Pacific Motorway, Underwood commercial area and broader Brisbane transport network. This distribution gives Rochedale South several distinct service environments while keeping most homes within a short drive of all of them.

Local Schools

St Peter's Primary School (Rochedale)
Distance: 0.32 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Catholic)
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 512
955 Rochedale Road, Rochedale
Phone: (07) 3341 4800
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Rochedale South State School
Distance: 0.87 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 478
15-37 Wendron Street, Rochedale South
Phone: (07) 3340 0777
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Redeemer Lutheran College (Rochedale)
Distance: 1.17 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Independent)
Years: Prep Year – Year 12
Students: 1,056
745 Rochedale Road, Rochedale
Phone: (07) 3340 8888
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Eight Mile Plains State School
Distance: 1.43 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 324
480 Underwood Road, Eight Mile Plains
Phone: (07) 3340 6333
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Springwood Road State School
Distance: 1.49 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 435
94-120 Springwood Road, Rochedale South
Phone: (07) 3457 8333
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Rochedale State High School
Distance: 1.62 km
State High School
Sector: State
Years: Year 7 – Year 12
Students: 1,547
249 Priestdale Road, Rochedale
Phone: (07) 3340 0400
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Rochedale State School
Distance: 1.76 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 989
694 Rochedale Road, Rochedale
Phone: (07) 3340 8333
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Springwood State High School
Distance: 2.25 km
State High School
Sector: State
Years: Year 7 – Year 12
Students: 577
202 Springwood Road, Springwood
Phone: (07) 3380 6111
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Springwood Central State School
Distance: 2.62 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Early Childhood – Year 6
Students: 252
26-34 Dennis Road, Springwood
Phone: (07) 3290 9333
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Calvary Christian College (Springwood)
Distance: 2.92 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Independent)
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 245
161 Dennis Road, Springwood
Phone: (07) 3287 6222
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Kuraby State School
Distance: 2.94 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 359
1523 Beenleigh Road, Kuraby
Phone: (07) 3361 8444
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