Drouin South Primary School is a rural school in West Gippsland. It draws its current enrolments from the Drouin township and outlying farming areas. The school strives to provide opportunities for all students to have equal access to and utilise expertise and resources to encourage students to come to school to learn, play and interact with others in an educational way. The school works in partnership with the community encouraging students to learn, grow and achieve to the best of their ability. Parent satisfaction with the school is very high. The school's values are Respect, Engagement and Independence. The school offers a curriculum that focuses on the essential learning areas of literacy and numeracy whilst enhancing student learning through wider curriculum opportunities and extra-curricula activities that support student engagement and connectedness to school. Specialist programs in Visual Arts, Design Creativity & Technology and Humanities are provided for all students. Instrumental Music, Active After School Sport, Chess and Choir are examples of optional extra-curricula activities. The school is currently undertaking a major redevelopment of facilities including 6 new classrooms. In 2010 the enrolment was 193. This school has 12.6 equivalent full-time staff: 2 Principal class, 10.6 teachers and 4 ESS. The school undertook its school self evaluation in 2010 and commenced its new strategic plan in 2011.