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Surplus School SitesA list of school sites and the reason for their closure.

Ballarat Surplus School Sites

School site Reason for closure

Sebastopol Primary School – John Earnshaw Oval

Year Oval Closed: 2010

On 12 March 2010, the Sebastopol Primary School Council passed a motion that it does not require John Earnshaw Oval.

The oval is not adjacent to the existing school site but is separated by several house blocks.

Mount Clear College (part site)

In 2006, Mount Clear College declared an area of their land as surplus to their requirements.

Windermere Primary School

Year School Closed: 2014

Windermere Primary School closed due to declining student numbers. The school was de-staffed at the end of 2012 with no students enrolled for 2013.

Full community consultation was undertaken in 2013 and the School Council requested to close the school in March 2013.

Baw Baw Surplus School Sites


Yarragon Primary School (old site)

Yarragon Primary School relocated from Rollo Street to a larger site in Loch Street on 19 November 2012.

As the new site can accommodate future growth, the old site is not required. Buildings on site were demolished in November 2016.

Athlone Primary School


Athlone Primary School closed in 2013 due to declining

student numbers.

The School Council led the communication consultation process and initiated the decision to formally close the school.

Benalla Surplus School Sites


Benalla College (oval)

On 20 September 2012, the Benalla College Principal and School Council wrote to the Department of Education and Training requesting the land where the school’s oval was located be declared surplus as it had not been used for more than 20 years.

Goorambat Primary School


Goorambat Primary School closed in 2012 due to declining student numbers.

In 1993, Goorambat Primary School was annexed to Benalla Primary School.

The school was de-staffed from February 2010 as there were no enrolments for 2010.

Boroondara Surplus School Sites


Camberwell High School – Part


An unusable strip of land which is located on the western boundary of the Camberwell High School. The land is not proposed for any future use by the school.

Brimbank Surplus School Sites


Calder Rise Primary School


Calder Rise Primary School merged with Keilor Downs Primary School to create Keilor Views Primary School.

Buloke Surplus School Sites


Charlton College – Donald Street Campus

Year Campus Closed: 2014

Charlton College – Donald Street Campus was the site of the North Central TAFE Cluster, which operated for 20 years to provide a technology based curriculum to seven cluster schools.

In 2011, the cluster successfully applied for funding to build a Trade Training Centre, which was completed in September 2014 on the main Charlton College site at Davies Street.

The Donald Street site has been deemed surplus to requirements.

Campaspe Surplus School Sites


Kyabram P-12 College – Dawes Campus


Kyabram Secondary College merged with Haslem Street Primary School and Dawes Road Primary School from 1 January 2009 to become Kyabram P-12 College.

As part of the reorganisation, all three school councils ratified that the new school be located on the sites of the former Kyabram Secondary College and Haslem Primay School, which share a common border.

Between 2012 and 2014 the merged College trialled a year 9 program at the Dawes Road Campus but this was discontinued, resulting in the site becoming surplus to the school’s requirements.

Buildings on site were demolished in November 2016.

Echuca South Primary School


Echuca South Primary School merged with Echuca West Primary School to form Echuca South West Primary School.

The site is not required for future education provision.

Echuca West Primary School


Echuca South Primary School merged with Echuca West

Primary School to form Echuca South West Primary School.


Echuca College (Formally Echuca High School)


This is a vacant site, a portion of this site is required for the Echuca Moama bridge project

Welton Primary School


Welton Primary School closed due to declining student numbers.

In 2017 the school year commenced with nine students. By term 3 2017 the enrolments had decreased to six students. These remaining students transitioned to other local schools.

The Welton Primary School Council met on 27 July 2017 and reosolved that the school would close at the end of term 3 2017.

Cardinia Surplus School Sites


Modella Primary School (part site)


Modella Primary School closed at the end of 1993 and most of the site was sold in 1994. The remainder of the school site is surplus to educational requirements.

Colac-Otway Surplus School Sites


Cressy Primary School


Cressy Primary School closed due to declining student numbers.

Lavers Hill P-12 College – Gellibrand Campus


Lavers Hill P-12 College – Gellibrand Campus was the site of the former Gellibrand Primary School.

In 2008, the school determined it no longer required the site for education purposes.

Buildings on site were demolished in June 2017.

Swan Marsh Primary School


Swan Marsh Primary School closed due to declining student numbers.

In Term 1, 2011, the parents of the final three students enrolled transferred their students to other schools. The School Council then made the decision to close the school.

Colac Secondary College – Murray Street Campus


Following the merger of Colac High School with Colac College in 2008, the Murray Street Site become the second campus of Colac Secondary College.

The site was declared surplus as part of Stage 2 of the Colac Regeneration Project.

Buildings on site were demolished in November 2016 with exception of the heritage listed building.

Goldfields Surplus School Sites


Maryborough Education Centre - Peel Street Reserve


A full size artificial grass over has been constructed on the main school site. As a result, the Peel Street Reserve is no longer used by the school.

Golden Plains Surplus School Sites


Bannockburn Primary School


This campus was closed due to the relocation of the Bannockburn Primary School to a new site in Milton Street, Bannockburn. The new school incorporates all years from Prep-Year 12.

Greater Bendigo Surplus School Sites


Bendigo South East 7-10 Secondary College - Golden Square Campus


This campus was closed due to the previous Golden Square Secondary College being merged with Flora Hill Secondary College to create the new Bendigo South East Secondary College.

The Golden Square site comprises two parcels of land; the oval and the remainder of the site.


The gymnasium has been leased.

Lightning Reef -Nolan Street Campus


On 1 January 2011, Bendigo North Primary School (located at Nolan Street) and Comet Hill Primary School (located at Holmes Road, Bendigo) merged to form Lightning Reef Primary School. The decision to merge and be located on the Holmes Road site was ratified by all three school councils.

As part of a $13.25 million Regeneration Project, the buildings on the Holmes Road site were replaced, and from December 2012 all students and staff were located on the Holmes Road site.

Included as part of the project is an integrated early learning centre, which provides long day care, kindergarten, occasional care, and maternal and child health services.

This centre commenced operation on 7 January 2013. As a result of the merger and building project, the school site and a vacant block of land opposite the school became surplus to education requirements.

The proposed merger and the development of the new school were the subject of considerable discussion between the two school councils and their respective communities.

Golden Square Primary School


Golden Square Primary School merged with Maple Street Primary School in 2009 due to falling enrolments. The merged school initially operated on both sites. Then, in 2013 the school relocated to the Laurel Street site to allow a new school to be rebuilt on the Maple Street site. This process was completed in 2015, when the Laurel Street site was declared

surplus.

Extensive community consultation was a part of this process.

Drummartin Primary School


Drummartin Primary School closed in 2015 due to declining student numbers. On 3 March 2015 the school council met and resolved that the school should close at the end of that year.

The 2015 enrolment was six students, two of which were in year 6. The school’s enrolments had increasingly declined from 15 in 2012. Community consultation indicated that there was no prospect for significant enrolment growth in the near future.

Greater Dandenong Surplus School Sites


Keysborough Secondary College – Coomoora campus (part)


Keysborough Secondary College School Council resolved that the Coomoora campus of the school should close.

A section of the site was identified as the site of the new Keysborough Primary School, which was formed in 2010 by a merger of Coomoora Primary School and Keysborough Park School. The school relocated to the current site in 2012.

The remainder of the site is not required for future education provision.

Athol Road Primary School – East Campus (formerly Southvale Primary School


As part of the broader Springvale/Dandenong Primary School Regeneration Project, Southvale Primary School and Springvale South Primary School merged to become Athol Road Primary School in August 2009.

The merged school operated at both school sites as campus until Stage 1 of the new school was ready for the start of the 2012 school year.

Chandler Park Primary School – Maralinga campus


As part of the broader Springvale/Dandenong Primary School Regeneration Project, Maralinga Primary School and Chandler Primary School merged to form Chandler Park Primary School

in 2010. Initially the school operated from both sites, which are 700 metres apart.

Due to declining enrolments at the merged school, the Chandler Park Primary School Council resolved in a meeting in December 2014 that the Maralinga campus should close.


Due to the location and access issues, the site is not suitable for future education provision. A new site for a planned primary school in Keysborough South has been acquired, which school will respond to growth in the area.

Greater Geelong Surplus School Sites


Rosewall Primary School


Rosewall Primary School merged with Corio Primary School on the Corio Primary School site from the 2009 school year.


Flinders Peak Secondary College


As part of the Corio Norlane Regeneration Project, multi-campus Northern Bay P-12 College was formed in 2011 as a result of a merger of nine schools.

As a result of the merger, Flinders Peak Secondary College closed at the end of 2010.

The site was approved as surplus as it was assessed at the time that the Northern Bay College campuses would be able to cater for projected future demand.

The majority of buildings on site were demolished in stages between 2014 and 2016.

In February 2017, the Department of Education and Training entered into a two year lease with the Council for the oval and change room facilities with a view of proceeding with disposal of the site at the conclusion of the lease.

Northern Bay P-12 – Corio South Primary School Campus


As part of the Corio Norlane Regeneration Project, multi-campus Northern Bay P-12 College was formed in 2011 as a result of a merger of nine schools.

As a result of the merger, Corio South Primary School became a campus of Northern Bay P-12 College. At the time of the merger, the Corio-Norlane communities were aware the Corio South Primary School campus would close as the staged building program for Northern Bay P-12 progressed.

Quamby Western Hieghts College – Quamby PT


The Quamby Campus is no longer required for educational purposes as a new facility is operational.

Hume Surplus School Sites


Meadows Primary School- Campmeadows campus


In 2009, Meadowbank Primary School and Campmeadows Primary School merged due to falling enrolments.

A state-of-the-art new school was built on the Meadowbank site, which opened in March 2011. As a result of the new facilities, the Campmeadows campus was declared surplus.


Upfield Primary School


As part of the Victorian Government’s Broadmeadows Regeneration Project, Upfield Primary School merged with Dallas Primary School to form the dual campus Dallas Brooks Community Primary School at the start of the 2011 school year.

Dallas Brooks Community Primary School continued to use the former Upfield Primary School site until the end of 2014.

Buildings on site were demolished in November 2016.

Knox Surplus School Sites


Boronia K-12 College – Mount View Campus


In December 2012, the the former Boronia Primary School and Boronia Heights Secondary College merged to form Boronia K-12 College.

The former Boronia Heights Secondary College site operated as the Mount View Campus. The site was originally built for a secondary provision with a large technical component but, over time, the school moved to being a secondary college with an emphasis on academic subjects.

The former Boronia Primary School site on Albert Avenue was redeveloped and completed at the end of the 2014 school year, providng the the school with new purpose built accommodation for all students from Prep to Year 12. This allowed the school to close the Mount View campus at the end of the 2014 school year.

Eastern Ranges School (formerly Wantirna Heights School)

Eastern Ranges School (formerly Wantirna Heights School) relocated to the site of the former Ferntree Gully College in 2013, due to enrolment demand and the need to increase the school’s capacity. Buildings on site were demolished in June 2017.

Latrobe Surplus School Sites


Morwell Primary School


As a result of the Morwell Regeneration Project, Morwell Primary School, Commercial Road Primary School and Tobruk Street Primary School merged to create the new Morwell Central Primary School.

A new state of the art facilty opened on a site on McDonald Street in January 2017, leaving the three former school sites vacant.

The Commerial Road site was retained for future education provision.

The Morwell Primary School and Tobruk Street Primary School sites are not required to be retained for future education provision. The Tobruk Street site was sold to the Department of Health and Human Services in August 2017.

Loddon Surplus School Sites


Boort District P-12 School – King


Street campus On 1 January 2011, Boort Primary School merged with Boort Secondary College to form Boort P-12 College. The name of the school was later changed to Boort District P-12 School.

As part of a regeneration project, the buildings on the secondary college site were replaced with new buildings, which were completed at the end of 2012.

This resulted in all staff and students relocating to one site, leaving the King Street Campus (site of the former Boort Primary School) vacant.


Macedon Ranges Surplus School Sites


Kyneton Primary School

Following a community survey and consultation, Kyneton Primary School relocated to a new site at Edgecombe Street.

Kyneton Primary School will start operating at the new site at the start of the 2018 school year, meaning the old school site will cease to be required at the end of the 2017 school year. The old site is surplus to education requirements.

Maroondah Surplus School Sites


Croydon South Primary School


Croydon South Primary School merged with Tinternvale Primary School on the Tinternvale site at the end of the 2008 school year.

The merger resulted in the site of the former Croydon South Primary School being surplus to education requirements. The site is not required for future education provision.

In connection with the $19.5 million Maroondah Education Plan, a land swap (the Melba Land Exchange) with the Maroondah City Council has been proposed, whereby the Department of Education and Training acquires land adjacent to Melba College from the Council for use by the School and also to allow Kilsyth Basketball Club to establish a major basketball facility, with the Department acting as landlord.

In exchange, the Maroondah City Council will acquire part of this site plus part of the Parkwood Secondary College site for community use.

The Melba Land Exchange was approved by the Victorian Government Land Monitor.

Mildura Surplus School Sites


Merbein P-10 College - Jenner Street campus


Merbein Primary School (located at Jenner Street), Merbein South Primary School (located on the Sturt Highway), Merbein West Primary School (located at Paschendale Street) and Merbein Secondary College (located at Commercial Street) merged to create Merbein P-12 on 1 January 2010.

The new school was consolidated and rebuilt at the site of Merbein Secondary School on Commercial Street, with all staff and students accommodated on the site as of October 2012.

The decision to merge and be located on the Commercial Street site was ratified at meetings of all four school councils. The other three sites became surplus to educational requirements.

Merbein P-10 College - Paschendale Avenue campus


Merbein Primary School (located at Jenner Street), Merbein South Primary School (located on the Sturt Highway), Merbein West Primary School (located at Paschendale Street) and Merbein Secondary College (located at Commercial Street) merged to create Merbein P-12 on 1 January 2010.

The new school was consolidated and rebuilt at the site of Merbein Secondary School on Commercial Street, with all staff and students accommodated on the site as of October

2012.

The decision to merge and be located on the Commercial Street site was ratified at meetings of all four school councils. The other three sites became surplus to educational requirements.

Ouyen P-12 College - Hunt Street campus


Ouyen Primary School, located at Hunt Street, Ouyen merged with Ouyen Secondary College, located at Fuller Street, Ouyen from 1 January 2009 to form Ouyen P-12 College.

The decision to merge and be located on the secondary school site at Fuller Street was ratified at meetings of both school councils. The proposed merger and development of the new school was the subject of significant discussions between the school councils and their respective school communities.

A $9.5 million regeneration project refurbished or replaced many of the buildings on the Fuller Street site. These works were complete by the end of the 2013 school year allowing students and staff to be accommodated at the Fuller Street site from the start of the 2014 school year.

The former primary school site at Hunt Street became surplus to education requirements.

Sunnycliffs Primary School


Sunnycliffs Primary School closed due to declining student numbers with only 7 enrolments expected in 2018.

Extensive community consultation was undertaken and the School Council requested to close the school in October 2017.

Mitchell Surplus School Sites


Seymour College - Delatite Road Campus


Seymour College was created in 2010 through a merger of Seymour Technical High School (located at Loco Street), Seymour Primary School (located at Grant Street), Seymour East Primary School (located at Delatite Road) and Seymour

Special School (located at Tallarook Street).

An $11.9 million building works program allowed the school to construct new purpose built accommodation for primary and special school students on the Loco Street site. These works were completed in June 2013 and allowed for all students and staff to relocate from Delatite Road to Loco Street. The Delatite Road Campus site then became surplus. Buildings on site were demolished in June 2017.

Seymour College continues to operate from three campuses, located Loco Street, Tallarook Street and Grant Street. An extensive consultation process was undertaken as part of the merger/regeneration discussions involving a range of stakeholders including students, staff, parents, school councils and the local community.

Moira Surplus School Sites


Yarrawonga College P-12 - Tom Street Campus


Yarrawonga College P-12 Tom Street Campus closed due to relocation 2017.

Monash Surplus School Sites


Mount Waverly Primary School (part site)

A former laneway not required by the school was declared surplus.

Moreland Surplus School Sites


Ballerrtt Mooroop College - Glenroy campus


In its 2011 report, Indigenous Education in Victorian Government Schools, the Victorian Auditor General’s Office recommended the Koorie Pathway Schools be reviewed as a matter of priority. The review found that the schools were unsustainable and not meeting their core objectives.

Upon consideration of the review and community feedback, the Victorian Government decided in October 2012 to close the four Koorie Pathway Schools, including Ballerrt Moroop College, effective from 21 December 2012. Buildings on site were demolished in November 2016.

The new Glenroy Specialist School, catering for students with physical or multiple disabilities or complex health needs, opened from new premises at the site at the beginning of the 2013 school year. A local kindergarten, Will Will Rook Glenroy Preschool, is also located on the site.

The Department of Education and Training has entered into a 30 month lease with Moreland City Council regarding providing for access to a spirit tree and ceremonial ground at the site. The Council has entered into a corresponding sub-lease to the Wurundjeri Council for these areas.

Mount Alexander Surplus School Sites


Barkers Creek Primary School


Barkers Creek Primary School closed due to declining enrolments. 14 students attended the school in 1993.

Guildford Primary School


Guildford Primary School closed due to declining enrolments.

In 2017 Guildford Primary School had a current enrolment of 8 students. In 2018 the enrolments were to be 2 students, the parents agreed to transition to Campbells Creek Primary School.

On 9 August 2017, the Cambells Creek PS and Guildford PS councils voted to close the school on 22 December 2017.

Moyne Surplus School Sites


Bessiebelle Primary School


Bessiebelle Primary School closed due to declining enrolments.

The School Council voted to close the school at the end of the 2005 school year.

Caramut Primary School


Caramut Primary School merged with Mortlake College at the end of the 2004 school year.

The closure of the school site was approved by the community.

Murrindindi Surplus School Sites


Thornton Primary School


Thornton Primary School closed due to declining enrolments.

On 4 December 2012, the Alexandra and Thornton Primary school councils voted to close the school, as four students were enrolled for 2013.

Thornton Primary School had been operating as an annexe of Alexandra Primary School since 1994. The two School Councils merged into one at the start of the 2012 year.

Highlands Primary School


Highlands Primary School closed due to declining enrolments. Thirteen students attended the school in 2016.

Northern Grampians Surplus School Sites


Glenorchy Primary School


Glenorchy Primary School closed at the end of 2010 with eight students enrolled that year.

Pyrenees Surplus School Sites


Beaufort Primary School (old site)

Beaufort Primary School relocated to a newly built school in March 2014 on the Beaufort Secondary College site.

The primary school is now co-located with the secondary school and an early learning centre.

Southern Grampians Surplus School Sites


Dunkeld Consolidated School (formally Glenthompson Primary School)


Glenthompson Primary School merged to become a campus of Dunkeld Consolidated School in 1998.

The Glenthompson campus was de-staffed in March 2012 due to low enrolment numbers.

Towong Surplus School Sites


Tallangatta Valley Primary School


Tallangatta Valley Primary School Council met during July 2016 and resolved that the school should close from January 2017.

Three students were enrolled in 2016 and the expected 2017 enrolment was two students.

Wellington Surplus School Sites


Sale College (part site)

The landowners adjoining Sale College applied to purchase a drainage and passageway easement that in the past serviced the College. The College has never utilised this area.

In addition, the Wellington Shire Council requested the transfer of an area of the site used as a roadway, so as to formalise this arrangement.

Carrajung South Primary School


Carrajung South Primary School was de-staffed at the end of 2006 by a resolution of the School Council due to declining enrolments.

The proposed closure was the subject of formal community consultation at a community meeting held in October 2011, at which there was unanimous community support for the closure of the school.

West Wimmera Surplus School Sites


Kaniva College (part site)

Kaniva Seconadary College and Kaniva Consolidated School merged to become Kaniva College, operating on both existing school sites as of the start of the 2002 school year.

As part of this restructure, a part of one of the school sites was identified as surplus to the school's requirements by the school.

Whittlesea Surplus School Sites


Upper Plenty Primary School – (part site)

An area of Crown land reserved for educational purposes on the site of Upper Plenty Primary School was made available to local residents in 1914 to construct a Mechanics Institute Hall.

The School does not require this area for educational purposes and resolved to relinquish the hall.

Lalor East Primary School (part site)

Lalor East Primary School relinquished an area of its site, which is located under high voltage power lines, as surplus to its requirements.

Wodonga Surplus School Sites


Wodonga South Primary School (old site - part)

Wondonga South Primary School relocated from its old site on Jarrah Street to form part of the Southern Rise Education Centre on Cartwright Street.

The Southern Rise Education centre was formed in 2011 when Wodonga South Primary School and two local preschools relocated from existing sites.

The previous site has been declared surplus to education requirements.

Yarra Ranges Surplus School Sites


Yarra Hills Secondary College – Cambridge Campus (remainder of the site, excluding the oval)


Yarra Hills Secondary College was formerly named Pembroke Secondary College and merged with both Mooroolbark Secondary College and Mount Evelyn Secondary College, resulting in a three campus structure.

Following a $20.8 million modernisation project in 2012 and 2013, the Cambridge campus of the School became surplus.

The site is not required to be retained for future education provision.

The oval on the site has been leased to the Yarra Ranges Shire Council for 20 years. The remaining portion of the site is surplus to education requiprements.

Warburton Primary School (part site)

A parcel of land on the site of Warburton Primary School was declared surplus in 2000.

This parcel of land houses the Cerini Centre. The Cerini Centre was contracted for sale in 2003 but the contract of sale did not proceed due to subdivision related complications (as the land is currently part of the larger school site) and was ultimately rescinded. The site is currently unoccupied.

Yarriambiack


Hopetoun Primary School


In November 2013, the Hopetoun school council advised they sought to co-locate on the secondary campus site due to the proximity of traffic.

Approval was given for the school reorganisation.

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