This school is located 12 kilometres North West of the Melbourne GPO. The majority of students live within a three kilometre radius of the school and a significant number of parents formerly attended the school as children. Avondale Primary School is a friendly, caring and reflective learning community that is committed to striving for learning excellence, the development of core goals and values and a shared school vision that reflects key trends in education. Our philosophy is based upon the premise that students can attain high levels of academic achievement and be responsible community members. The school is committed to improving pedagogy and further developing high quality programs through the sharing of exemplary teaching practices across the school, responding effectively to assessment data and communicating with parents to ensure individual needs are addressed. A recent whole school review stated that 'students have achieved some very good results well above the SFO percentile range'. The school community enjoys the leadership of an active and vibrant school council with five supportive sub-committees. This school has 28.42 equilivent full time teaching staff: 2 principal class, 17.4 teachers and 9.02 education support staff.