Rural schools throughout the south-west are celebrating news they will share in more than $4.5 million in next month’s state budget.
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Hawkesdale P-12 College is the most fortunate of the rural schools to get a funding boost, receiving $2 million, while Mortlake P-12 will get $950,000.
Derrinallum P-12 will get $900,000, Heywood District Secondary College $600,000 and Lismore Primary School $110,000.
West Warrnambool Primary School is to receive $250,000.
The allocations come on top of the recently announced $14.6 million for the construction of the new Warrnambool Special Developmental School on Wollaston Road.
Most of the schools said they expected to use the money for maintenance and refurbishment of existing facilities.
The Victorian School Building Authority will work with the schools to determine the scope of the upgrades and how they can best be delivered.
Among the school principals excited about their funding boosts was Hawkesdale P-12 principal Colan Distel who said he expected his school would use the $2 million to refurbish most of the school buildings.
Mr Distel said the school had been built in the early 1960s and needed to be modernised.
Warrnambool West Primary school principal Phil Barnes said he was “tickled pink’ the school would get $250,000.
He expected the money would go towards maintenance and improving access to senior classrooms.
Mortlake P-12 principal Graeme Good said there were many learning spaces at his school that needed to be modernised.