Deputy Premier announces expanded inner-city school building programme

The Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, James Merlino, this morning announced work to acquire a site in Docklands for a primary school will begin immediately.

On top of the new Docklands primary school, the Inner-city New School Package will see:

• Identification of sites and the commencement of planning for a new primary school in North Melbourne.
• Identification of sites for both a primary and secondary school at Fishermans Bend.
• Secure a site to expand Albert Park College by five classrooms.
• Deliver the remaining funding for South Melbourne Park Primary School and Prahran High School.
• Open the new Richmond High School and Ferrars Sreet Primary School in 2018.

It is expected that 90,000 students are forecast to enter Victorian schools over the next five years and 5,000 new places in the inner-city will be eventually be created through the initiatives listed above.

A Victorian Government media release states that inner-city enrolment boundaries will also be changed so kids living in Docklands will be able to go to the new Ferrars Street Primary School and University High School in Parkville.

Renders of Victoria's first vertical school to be built on Ferrars Street can be seen in our August 2016 article.