Karingal Primary School was established in 1966 and is located on a picturesque site in a well-established suburb, close to the City of Frankston, 53 km south- east of Melbourne. The school’s attractive site, with established native trees, contrasts with the local urban environment and the shopping complex nearby.
Karingal Primary School is a medium-sized school of 216 students with a unique and successful Montessori stream operating within.
The school hall is used daily to support a Before and After School Care program.
Karingal Primary School is committed to providing a friendly, dynamic, and secure learning environment that strives to develop respectful, resilient, lifelong learners. It supports students to achieve their personal best in an atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperation.
Karingal Primary School is strongly committed to the development and building of teacher capacity within its staff and continuous improvement to achieve maximum outcomes for all students.
It values working with the whole school community in an atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperation where the school values of Respect, Integrity, Persistence, Relationships, and Resilience form the moral purpose of the school and the foundation for ensuring the best environment for all.
We are proud of the gain individual students have made over the last year, whereby, Literacy and Numeracy remained the core learning areas; through monitoring and explicit teaching, individual students are supported to achieve their personal best.
The school’s variety of ICT equipment supports the delivery of personalized programs to address individual learning needs and provides access to a range of learning technology opportunities.
A professional team of teachers is dedicated to delivering a range of rich, engaging, and quality programs in all key learning areas and the specialist programs of Visual Art, Performing Art, Physical Education, and Language Education (Japanese).
The school community is interested and supportive and keen to see the school move from strength to strength. Community support is highly valued and volunteering takes many forms from School Council and Parents and Friends to mentors, classroom helpers, gardeners, and the breakfast club.
An Early Years partnership operates with Frankston City Council at Karingal PLACE which is adjacent to the school and the students have access to the gymnasium during school hours.
In late 2020 the school received funding of $4.1 million in the State budget 2020/21 for upgrade and modernization works. The construction of a new multipurpose hall, Visual Arts room, STEM room, and canteen commenced and continued throughout 2022; this is expected to be completed by the end of 2023.