If your child will be starting in Foundation - Year 5 in 2025, you may like to visit our Language Learning page to learn more about our Italian bilingual program. In 2026, our whole school will learn 50% of the curriculum through Italian bilingual immersion. To enquire about enrolment at FPS, please contact the office staff on 9687 1910 or footscray.ps@education.vic.gov.au, and for Foundation 2026 enrolments please see information below.
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:
The Department of Education has released the statewide Foundation (Prep) enrolment timeline for the 2026 school year.
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 will follow the timeline in 2025 to support Foundation (Prep) enrolments for the 2026 school year.
You can find information and resources about the timeline, including factsheets and a poster at: Enrolling in Foundation (Prep).
You will be able to apply to enrol your child in Foundation (Prep) 2026 at Footscray Primary School from 22 April 2025.
What you need to do:
Enrolment applications submitted after 25 July 2025 will be processed by our school as they are received, in accordance with the department’s Placement Policy.
Information Sessions and Tours at Footscray Primary School
Transition at Footscray Primary School - Dates to be shared in Term 3
Footscray Primary School acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land and waterways on which we live, work and learn, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nations. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, recognising their continuing cultural connections to their land, waters and communities.
