Victorian School Building Authority

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Victorian School Building Authority
Type Government agency
FoundedAugust 2016
Headquarters33 St Andrews Place,
Melbourne
,
Australia
Key people
Tom Kirkland (CEO) [1]
Parent Department of Education (Victoria)
Website www.schoolbuildings.vic.gov.au

The Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA) is a division of the Victorian Department of Education which is responsible for the construction of new government schools and infrastructure improvements at existing schools. [2] It was established by the Andrews Government as part of the 2016 Victorian Budget. [3]

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Between 2017 and 2022 the Authority opened 69 new primary and secondary schools in the state and plans to open an additional 27 by 2024. [2]

A number of the VSBA's new schools are so-called "vertical schools" on inner-city sites, a new concept in Victoria. [4]

History

During the 2014 Victorian state election, then Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews promised $1.3 billion for new schools and school upgrades. [5] The School Building Authority was established as part of the 2016 state budget as part of a $1.1 billion school infrastructure package. [6] This included $42 million to build and reopen Richmond High School, 22 years after the school was controversially closed by the government of Jeff Kennett. [6] [7] This came after research published by the Grattan Institute that found, due to the state's rapid population growth, Victorian schools would need to absorb an extra 190,000 students in the decade from 2016, requiring 7,200 new teachers and 140 to 220 new schools to be built. [8] In 2017, Education Minister James Merlino said the state needed to absorb an additional 90,000 students over the next five years. [9]

The removal of trees for the construction of Beaumaris Secondary College caused controversy in 2016. [10]

In the lead-up to the 2018 state election, Andrews announced the Authority would build 100 new schools over the next eight years in order to meet Melbourne's population growth, with 45 schools to be built over the next term of government. [11] [12] The schools would mainly be built in the city's growing outer suburbs at an additional cost of $850 million. [11]

In July 2022, the state government released tenders for eleven new schools. [13] In October 2022 during the 2022 state election, Andrews announced funding for a further 25 new state schools would be built in Victoria by 2026, with 90 schools upgraded or expanded, at a cost of $1.6 billion. [14] This was to meet the government's commitment to build 100 new schools by 2026. [14]

Architecture

The new South Melbourne Primary School, Victoria's first "vertical" primary school, 2018. South Melbourne Primary School (26870006508).jpg
The new South Melbourne Primary School, Victoria's first "vertical" primary school, 2018.
Detail of South Melbourne Primary School, 2018. South Melbourne Primary School Corner detail (40030969714).jpg
Detail of South Melbourne Primary School, 2018.

The scale of the school infrastructure program led the VSBA in 2017 to seek architects for its new schools, and for new permanent, modular classrooms for existing schools. [15] [16] A number of these classrooms were to replace existing buildings that contained asbestos. [16] The Authority was tasked with replacing 100 of these buildings with prefabricated classrooms. [16]

At certain inner-city locations, space was constrained, and the authority embarked on building "vertical school" campuses, a first for Melbourne. [9] Richmond High School became the state's first vertical high school while South Melbourne Primary School was heralded as the state's first vertical primary school. [9] Designed by Hayball, the 525 student South Melbourne Primary opened in 2018, serving the nearby rapidly growing inner-city areas of Southbank and Fisherman's Bend. [17] The six-story campus sat on a half-acre site on Ferrars Street, adjacent to a new park built on land purchased by the state government and the City of Port Philip in 2017. [18] The primary school would have no formal classrooms and instead would feature a combination of indoor and outdoor spaces and a central staircase for circulation, with the architect saying it represented a new approach to density for Melbourne. [19] The project was named Future Project of the Year at the 2016 World Architecture Festival in Berlin. [20]

Other inner-city schools like Prahran High School, which opened in 2019, were built as vertical schools. [21] The 650-student school is four storeys tall and is designed by Gray Puksand. [21] [22] COX Architecture and McGregor Coxall designed the three-story campus for Docklands Primary School in the CBD-adjacent Docklands precinct. [23]

Childcare centres

In 2022, the Andrews Government announced that the VSBA would build 50 childcare centres across Victoria. [24] [25] Part of a major $9 billion expansion of state provision of childcare, the first four centres were planned to open by 2025 and are being colocated with existing primary or secondary schools. [26] [27]

List of new VSBA schools

School [28] Suburb or townYearsStatusOpened
Aintree Primary SchoolAintreeP-6Finished2021
Aitken Hill Primary SchoolCraigieburnP-6Finished2019
Armstrong Creek SchoolArmstrong CreekP-12Finished2018
Ashley Park Primary SchoolDoreenP-6Finished2019
Bannockburn P-12 CollegeBannockburnP-12Finished2018
Banum Warrik Primary SchoolKalkalloP-6Under construction2024 (planned)
Barrawang Primary SchoolWollert WestP-6Finished2023
Barton Primary SchoolCranbourne WestP-6Finished2017
Bass Coast College - San Remo CampusSan Remo7-9Finished2022
Beaumaris Secondary CollegeBeaumaris7-12Finished2018
Bemin Secondary CollegeTruganina7-12Under construction2024 (planned)
Beveridge Primary School - New CampusBeveridgeP-6Finished2020
Binap Primary SchoolBrookfieldP-6Under construction2024 (planned)
Botanic Ridge Primary SchoolBotanic RidgeP-6Finished2020
Bridgewood Primary SchoolOfficerP-6Finished2018
Brinbeal Secondary CollegeTarneit7-12Under construction2024 (planned)
Burnside Primary SchoolBurnsideP-6Finished2019
Casey Central Primary School (interim name)CobblebankP-6PlanningUndetermined
Casey Fields Primary SchoolCranbourne EastP-6Finished2020
Clyde Creek Primary SchoolClydeP-6Finished2022
Clyde North Primary School (interim name)Clyde NorthP-6Planning2025 (planned)
Clyde Secondary CollegeClyde7-12Finished2022
Clyde North Secondary College (interim name)Clyde North7-12Planning2025 (planned)
Cobblebank Secondary School (interim name)Cobblebank7-12PlanningUndetermined
Cranbourne West Secondary CollegeCranbourne West7-12Finished2022
Davis Creek Primary SchoolTarneitP-6Finished2020
Deanside Primary SchoolDeansideP-6Finished2022
Dharra SchoolAintreeUnder construction2024 (planned)
Docklands Primary SchoolDocklandsP-6Finished2021
Dohertys Creek P-9 CollegeTruganinaP-9Finished2019
Donnybrook Primary SchoolDonnybrookP-6Finished2023
Edenbrook Secondary CollegePakenham7-12Finished2022
Edgars Creek Primary SchoolWollertP-6Finished2021
Edgars Creek Secondary CollegeWollert7-12Finished2018
Elevation Secondary CollegeCraigieburn7-12Finished2020
Endeavour Hills Specialist SchoolEndeavour HillsFinished2022
Eynesbury Primary SchoolEynesburyP-6Finished2021
Featherbrook P-9 CollegePoint CookP-9Finished2017
Fishermens Bend Primary School (interim name)Port MelbourneP-6Planning2026 (planned)
Footscray High School - New Junior CampusFootscray7-9Finished2021
Gaayip-Yagila Primary SchoolMicklehamP-6Finished2021
Garrang Wilam Primary SchoolTruganinaP-6Finished2021
Gilgai Plains Primary SchoolKalkalloP-6Finished2022
Grayling Primary SchoolClyde NorthP-6Finished2020
Greater Shepperton Secondary CollegeShepperton7-12Finished2022
Greenvale Secondary CollegeGreenvale7-12Finished2022
Hamlyn Views SchoolHamlyn HeightsFinished2018
Harvest Home Primary SchoolEppingP-6Finished2017
Homestead Senior Secondary CollegePoint Cook10-12Finished2020
John Henry Primary SchoolPakenhamP-6Finished2017
Karwan Primary SchoolTarneitP-6Finished2022
Keelonith Primary SchoolGreenvaleP-6Finished2021
Kurmile Primary SchoolOfficerP-6Under construction2024 (planned)
Kurrun Primary SchoolOfficerP-6Finished2023
Laa Yulta Primary SchoolMambourinP-6Under construction2024 (planned)
Leneva (Frederic Street Road) Primary School (interim name)Wondonga EastP-6PlanningUndetermined
Lockerbie Secondary School (interim name)Kalkallo7-12Planning2026 (planned)
Lockerbie Specialist School (interim name)KalkalloPlanningUndetermined
Lollypop Creek Primary SchoolWerribeeP-6Finished2022
Lucas Primary SchoolLucasP-6Finished2020
McKinnon Secondary College - East CampusMcKinnon7-12Finished2022
Mernda Central P-12 CollegeMerndaP-12Finished2017
Mernda Park Primary SchoolMerndaP-6Finished2017
Mickleham Secondary CollegeMickleham7-12Finished2023
Mirripoa Primary SchoolDuneedP-6Finished2020
Monash Children's Hospital SchoolClaytonFinished2017
Morwell Central Primary SchoolMorwellP-6Finished2018
Nearnung Primary SchoolTarneitP-6Finished2022
Newbury Primary SchoolCraigieburnP-6Finished2017
Ngarri Primary SchoolManor LakesP-6Finished2022
North Melbourne Primary School - New CampusNorth MelbourneP-6Finished2023
Orchard Park Primary SchoolOfficerP-6Finished2021
Oberon High SchoolArmstong Creek7-12Finished2021
Pakenham Primary SchoolPakenhamP-6Finished2019
Pakenham North West Primary School (interim name)PakenhamP-6Planning2025 (planned)
Point Cook South P-9 (interim name)Point CookP-6Planning2026 (planned)
Point Cook South Specialist School (interim name)Point CookPlanningUndetermined
Port Melbourne Secondary CollegePort Melbourne7-12Finished2022
Prahran High SchoolWindsor7-12Finished2019
Preston High SchoolPreston7-12Finished2019
Quarters Primary SchoolCranbourne WestP-6Finished2023
Ramlegh Park Primary SchoolClyde NorthP-6Finished2021
Richmond High SchoolRichmond7-12Finished2019
Riverbend Primary SchoolWyndham ValeP-6Finished2021
Riverdale North Primary School (interim name)TarneitP-6Planning2025 (planned)
Riverwalk Primary SchoolWerribeeP-6Finished2020
Saltwater P-9 CollegePoint CookP-9Finished2019
South Melbourne Park Primary SchoolSouth Albert ParkP-6Finished2019
South Melbourne Primary SchoolSouthbankP-6Finished2018
Springside West Secondary CollegeFraser Rise7-12Finished2018
Strathtulloh Primary SchoolStrathtullohP-6Finished2022
Tarneit Rise Primary SchoolTarneitP-6Finished2018
Tarneit Senior CollegeTarneit10-12Finished2018
Thompsons West Primary School (interim name)Clyde NorthP-6Planning2025 (planned)
Thornhill Park Primary SchoolThornhill ParkP-6Finished2022
Topirum Primary SchoolClyde NorthP-6Under construction2024 (planned)
Torquay Coast Primary SchoolTorquayP-6Finished2018
Tulliallan Primary SchoolCranbourne NorthP-6Finished2017
Walcom Ngarrwa Secondary CollegeWerribee7-12Under construction2024 (planned)
Wangaratta District Specialist School - New Benalla CampusClyde NorthPlanning2023 (planned)
Warreen Primary SchoolTruganinaP-6Under construction2024 (planned)
Wayi SchoolCraigieburnFinished2022
Wilandra Rise Primary SchoolClyde NorthP-6Finished2017
Willowbank Primary SchoolGisborneP-6Finished2022
Wimba Primary SchoolTarneitP-6Under construction2024 (planned)
Wollert Primary SchoolWollertP-6Finished2022
Wollert Central Primary School (interim name)WollertP-6Planning2025 (planned)
Wollert Secondary CollegeWollert East7-12Finished2022
Yarrabing Secondary SchoolAintree7-12Under construction2024 (planned)
Yubup Primary SchoolMicklehamP-6Under construction2024 (planned)

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