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Location Profile

Location Profile

At Sunbury Primary School, all students are empowered to learn and achieve, engaging in collaborative learning opportunities that foster curiosity, creativity and critical thinking. Students actively seek out challenges and view obstacles as opportunities to learn and grow in the pursuit of personal excellence. Our students experience a strong sense of connectedness with self, others and our communities, contributing to shaping the world around them.

The student enrolment in 2026 is 380. There are 38 staff at the school comprising a principal, an assistant principal, 25 teaching staff and 11 ES staff. The school is organised to provide low class sizes across the school in composite class arrangements. Specialist programs operate to support school priorities and to take advantage of the teaching capital available to the school. To further support student learning the school is involved in various networks with a focus on teaching excellence. The School Family Occupation index of the school is 0.24.

Sunbury Primary School can trace its origins to 1869 as the first school in the local area. It was relocated in 1999 to Jacksons Hill on the southern boundary of the township of Sunbury, located approximately 35 kilometres northwest of Melbourne, within the city of Hume.

The school is housed in refurbished, heritage-listed bluestone and weatherboard buildings. Children enjoy school facilities which include modern classrooms, specialist art and music facilities, library and hall. Landscaped grounds feature historically significant trees and a horticultu…