Hundreds of residents have thrown their weight behind Dinjerra Primary School’s campaign to rebuild the school.
More than 450 people have signed the online petition aimed at pressuring the state government into reversing its 2017-18 budget decision to not allocate $7 million to the school.
Petition organiser and school council member Rayna Fahey said community support had been “very heartening”.
“We have had an amazingly supportive response from the wider community,” Ms Fahey said.
The school council has also written to Education Minister James Merlino, urging him to reconsider the decision and inviting him to the school to see “how desperately this funding is needed”.
John Ronan, a spokesperson for Mr Merlino, said the department had not yet received the council letter and that the minister “had no immediate plans” to visit the school. Questions about funding for the school were not answered.
Dinjerra is the only primary school to service Braybrook, Tottenham and Maidstone. The school council said two buildings were built in the 1960s and were designed to last 20 years. It is these buildings that need rebuilding.
The school received state funding last year to plan building works.
The council says construction was due to begin later this year and the new school built by the end of 2018.
