Victorian School Building Authority

[6][7] The huge projects for school construction came as a result and recommendation of an analysis published by the Grattan Institute.

[16] At certain inner-city locations, space was constrained, and the authority embarked on building "vertical school" campuses, a first for Melbourne.

[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 sits 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 Phillip 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.

[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.