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Apollo Parkways Primary School is in Greensborough, in Melbourne's outer northern suburbs. The current enrolment is 620 students with our school tours providing prospective families with an opportunity to experience all the wonderful aspects of Apollo Parkways.  A significant percentage, 60.81% of our student population is drawn from outside our immediate neighbourhood. 

The school's Student Family Occupation Education Index (SFOE) is 0.1646, with 11% of students from EAL (English as an Additional Language) background. These indicators are used by the Department of Education to differentiate the allocation of resources to school budgets based on the correlation between student SFOE and predicted student outcomes and place the school with a solid measure of school advantage.

The school is organised into 29 grades operating in grade level teaching teams.  The school's curriculum is based on the outcomes required of the Victorian Curriculum and is both broad and comprehensive. A strong emphasis is placed on the teaching of literacy and numeracy, with whole school programming and coordination a key to the strength of these curriculum areas. The school has maintained a full complement of specialist programs in; The Arts, Physical Education and Sport, Languages (Italian) and STEM. The school also has a range of programs to support students in their learning. An enrichment program, The Pegasus Program, is offered to highly capable and talented students along with access to VHAP (Victoria High Ability Program).

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