The largest independent school in Melbourne’s west is expanding further to welcome Year 9 to Year 12 students.
Bacchus Marsh Grammar’s Woodlea campus will be growing its current offering of preschool to Year 8.
The Woodlea campus opened in 2019 and has a current school population of 1000 students from Prep to year 8 and another 100 students in the early learning centre.
Principal Andrew Neal said extending the Woodlea campus will provide students with access to a school close to home with the whole primary and secondary school education in one location.
“A strong foundational tuition, a raft of experiences and a senior program with a strong focus on outcomes provides more choice for quality education, and helps us allow important community citizens to assist numerous local groups and sporting clubs with the communal use of facilities,” he said.
A range of new facilities will be developed at the Woodlea campus over the coming years, including the creation of a three-level complex, which is due to commence construction next year, new classrooms, a new library and a senior science centre.
Woodlea acting project director Charbel Youssef said the expansion will deliver on Woodlea’s vision of lifelong learning and access to quality and affordable education for the community.
“The Woodlea community is growing and establishing at an unprecedented rate, and this expansion will provide students with an end to end quality Bacchus Marsh Grammar education, all within the one campus,” she said.
The secondary expansion will be named ‘Project Kaizen’, consisting of two streams offering acceleration, one in STEM and the other in legal studies, along with a standard education stream.
Upon completion, the Woodlea campus will accommodate 1750 Prep to Year 12 students and an early learning centre of 100 to 150 students over a five-to-10-year period.
Liam McNally
