Bentleigh West Primary School is a government primary school located in the suburb of Bentleigh in the City of Glen Eira, about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) out of Melbourne's city centre, in the state of Victoria, Australia.

The school was established in the 1930s and named Bentleigh West, despite the lack of a suburb of that name, as it was considered more fashionable to live on the western side of Bentleigh (west of the Frankston railway line), closer to Brighton East and Brighton than the other side of the line.

[8] Leonie Brown, who co-ordinates the school's environmental program, was chosen from 2,400 teachers to win one of the Australian Scholarships Group Community Merit Awards 2005.

[citation needed] The Paul Jennings Award is a competition that takes place every year.

Grade 5 and 6 students each enter a short story containing a sentence from one of Paul Jennings' books.