Funding for smaller Catholic Schools

A number of local Catholic schools are in line for an increase in funding to boost their facilities.

Mt Atkinson, Wyndham Vale and Tarneit, as well as St Patrick’s in Geelong West among seven schools to share in more than $30 million dollars in state funding to pay for libraries, a chapel and four brand new primary schools.

St Patrick’s will receive more than three-and-a-half-million dollars in state funding to bulldoze it’s chapel and replace it with a brand new one.

It’s among 65 Victorian Catholic schools to share in almost a-quarter-of-a-billion dollars that’ll pay for upgrades, fixes and eight new primary schools