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Location Profile

Glenroy West Primary School was built in 1958 and is located 16km north of metropolitan CBD. There are excellent facilities and large grounds that provide for active play, adventure playgrounds, running track and oval, basketball courts, additional playgrounds, down-ball courts, two kindergarten rooms and native gardens. 

Glenroy West Primary School received $18.12 million to upgrade and modernize the school, including new facilities for an additional 250 students to meet enrolment growth for the 2025 school year and beyond.

The school currently has 355 students with an expected increase in capacity for 550 students in the next two years. The school has a proud tradition of education in the City of Merri-Bek.

The student population is diverse with thirty languages represented at the school and 65 per cent of students coming from a home where English is not the main. The school has a SFO index of 0.5556 and SFOE index of 0.4191. 

The school has two kindergarten buildings on site called York Street Kindergarten operational from 2014 under the banner of the Northern Schools Early Years Cluster. The York Street Kindergarten has an excellent educational program for both three- and four-year-old in the Glenroy area. There is a strong link between the playgroup, kindergarten and school to ensure a seamless transition in the Early Years and beyond.

The curriculum provides explicit teaching and learning in literacy and numeracy based on the Victorian Curriculum. Specialist programs include Physical Education, The Arts, STEM, Music and LOTE (Spanish). EAL (English as an ad…