A new junior secondary school campus will be built in Seddon as part of a $237 million state government cash splash on future schools across Melbourne.
The vertical campus, directly south of Victoria University’s Nicholson Street Campus, will form part of the new Footscray Learning Precinct.
There is as yet no opening date for the junior co-ed campus at Seddon, but another junior co-ed campus at the Gilmore College site and a new senior campus on the current Footscray City College site will begin operating from 2020.
Gilmore College will start changing its enrolments from next year, not taking students in years 7 or 11, while Footscray City College students will finish their schooling at the current site.
The Seddon site is being acquired for an unspecified sum as part of a $236.8 million spending package to buy land for 14 schools.
Williamstown MP Wade Noonan said parents in the Yarraville, Seddon and Kingsville area have been campaigning for more than a decade for a government secondary school in the area.
“With the Seddon land to be acquired, the next step is to design and build a new vertical school for a generation of students.”
Footscray MP Marsha Thomson said the land acquisition marks another major milestone.
“The Footscray Learning Precinct will be an Australian-first, providing early years, primary, secondary, and post-secondary education all in one precinct.”
