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About the Victorian Schools Plan

The Victorian Schools Plan is the Victorian Government’s 10-year plan to transform Victorian schools by funding the rebuilding, renovating or extending of all government schools by 2016–17.

It is one of many Victorian Government initiatives ensuring Victorian schools provide every child, every opportunity.

The Victorian Government recognises the powerful impact that school design has on both student outcomes and innovative teaching. Through the Victorian Schools Plan, children will benefit from high quality educational facilities and infrastructure.

$1.9 billion is being invested to rebuild, renovate or extend 500 schools by 2011. $402 million was announced in the May 2009 budget and is being spent on 113 schools over the next year.

The Victorian Schools Plan also delivers far-reaching community benefits by providing new facilities for the use of schools and their neighbouring communities. The new buildings will be designed and constructed so they can be assets for the whole community. This will mean that, outside school hours, the wider community will benefit by being able to use school sporting facilities, meeting rooms, halls, stadiums, libraries and other buildings.

Timeline

Delivery of the Victorian Schools Plan has already begun with 375 of the 500 schools to be rebuilt, renovated or extended by 2011 now funded.

In the 2009-10 financial year the Government’s commitment to the Victorian Schools Plan includes:

  • $92 million allocated to fund the regeneration of schools in selected local communities which have developed plans for new curriculum and facilities to transform education options for Victorian students. These communities include: Altona/Bayside, Bendigo, Broadmeadows, Laverton, Leongatha, Maroondah, Heidelberg, Keysborough/Springvale, Wangaratta and Wodonga.
  • $128 million allocated for school modernisation projects, building new libraries, gymnasiums, classrooms and multi-purpose science and ITC centres. Schools funded for modernisation projects are: Apollo Parkways Primary School, Balwyn High School, Blackburn High School, Burwood Heights Primary School, Cranbourne Secondary College, Dingley Primary School, Eltham High School, Gisborne Secondary College, Healesville High School, Kallista Primary School, Maribyrnong Secondary College, Melbourne Girls College, Mount Waverley Secondary College, Parkmore Primary School, Pascoe Vale Girls Secondary College, Pembroke Secondary College, Sussex Heights Primary School, Trafalgar High School, Warburton Primary School and Western Port Secondary College.   
  • $47.3 million allocated for replacement schools. Includes $14.2 million for the rebuilding of Glenroy Specialist School. Also includes $28 million for the replacement of Western Autistic School, the new Albert Park Secondary College and funding to relocate the Albert Park childcare facility – all announced in the 2008–09 Budget Update.
  • $25.1 million for the building of new schools in growth areas. New schools to be built include: Manor Lakes P-12 Specialist College (Stage 3), Point Cook Senior Secondary College (Stage 3), Mount Ridley P-12 College (Stage 3) and Timbarra 7-9.
  • $19 million for modern relocatable classrooms to replace old portable buildings. This funding is the second and final tranche of the Government’s commitment to provide 400 relocatable classrooms.
  • $12 million allocated to build three state-of-the-art centres dedicated to maths and science teaching.
  • $7.6 million for schools requiring smaller modernisations and upgrades identified under the Better Schools Today program.  Schools include: Ampitheatre Primary School, Aspley Primary School, Ararat North Primary School, Bendigo Primary School, Bethanga Primary School, Beulah Primary School, Bridgewater Primary School, Buangor Primary School, Chiltern Primary School, Cobram Special Development School, Coldstream Primary School, Coleraine Primary School, Congupna Primary School, Dartmoor Primary School, Dookie Primary School, Goongerah Primary School, Gordon Primary School, Goroke P-12 College, Harrietville Primary School, Kalianna Special School, Lake Boga College, Lake Charm Primary School, Langley Primary School, Lardner and District Primary School, Leitchville Primary School, Little Bendigo Primary School, Macarthur Primary School, Macarthur Street Primary School, Manangatang P-12 College, Maroona Primary School, Merrigum Primary School, Merrijig Primary School, Minyip Primary School, Mount Macedon Primary School, Murrayville Community College, Navarre Primary School, Panton Hill Primary School, Pentland Primary School, Redesdale Mia Mia Primary School, Rupanyup Primary School, Strathmerton Primary School, Swan Hill Specialist School, Tallangatta Valley Primary School, Waubra Primary School, Welton Primary School and Willaura Primary School.
  • $16 million to secure the future of small rural schools. Schools that will be funded include Avenel Primary School, Barnawartha Primary School, Grasmere Primary School, Inverloch Primary School, Katunga Primary School, St Leonards Primary School, Toolamba Primary School and Teesdale Primary School.
  • $24 million allocated to the building of two new selective entry high schools in Berwick and Melbourne’s West by 2011.
  • $31 million allocated for the purchase of land to enable new schools to be built in the future to keep pace with population growth.