If your child will be starting in Foundation - Year 4 in 2024 or Foundation - Year 5 in 2025, you may like to visit our Language Learning page to learn more about our Italian bilingual program.

Our school zone

Our school zone is available on findmyschool.vic.gov.au which hosts the most up-to-date information on school zones in Victoria.

Students residing within our school zone are guaranteed a place at our school, which is determined on the basis of your permanent residential address. If you reside outside our school zone, you can submit an enrolment form for consideration. If we have insufficient accommodation, we manage enrolments using the FPS Enrolment Policy to ensure that students have access to their designated neighbourhood school and may enrol at another school, if there are available places.

For more information, you can:

• visit School zones for answers to frequently asked questions
• call the Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA) on 1800 896 950
• email the VSBA at vsba@education.vic.gov.au

2025 Foundation (Prep) enrolments

The Department of Education (DE) has released a new statewide Foundation (Prep) enrolment timeline. The timeline advises families when and how to enrol their child into Foundation (Prep) at a Victorian government primary school, including Footscray Primary School. All government primary schools follow this timeline to support Foundation (Prep) enrolments for the 2025 school year.

You can find information and resources about the new timeline, including factsheets, at: Enrolling in Foundation (Prep). You can also download the ‘Foundation (Prep) Enrolment Information Pack for Parents/Carers for the 2025 school year’ from the Starting School webpage. 

You will be able to apply to enrol your child in Foundation (Prep) 2025 at Footscray Primary School from 15 April 2024.

What you need to do:

1. Contact our school on 9687 1910 or footscray.ps@education.vic.gov.au or book via the link below to join our upcoming  school tours.
2. Download the ‘Foundation (Prep) Enrolment Information Pack for Parents and Carers.' The pack will be available from Monday 15 April 2024.
3. Submit an enrolment application for Foundation (Prep) by Friday 26 July 2024.
4. You will be notified of the outcome of your application between Monday 29 July and Friday 9 August 2024. If you receive an enrolment offer, you should accept the offer by Friday 23 August 2024.
5. Take part in enrolment information and transition sessions during Term 4, 2024.
6. Your child will start Foundation (Prep) from Wednesday 29 January 2025. This date will be confirmed in December 2024. 

Enrolment applications submitted after 26 July 2024 will be processed by our school as they are received, in accordance with the department’s Placement Policy.

Booking link https://forms.gle/82Lt6ePVtG1Q3xbaA