Reservoir Primary School

Reservoir is a middle-to-working-class suburb with a mix of white-collar and blue-collar workers. The median weekly household income is $1,541 (2021 Census), below the Victorian median. The median age is 38 years. The suburb has a high proportion of family households, with 13,259 families, and an average of 0.6 children per household for all dwellings citation:QuickStats 2021.

The largest overseas-born group in Reservoir is from India, but the 2021 QuickStats do not list a specific percentage in the provided data. Most residents are Australian-born; the quickstats show 93.8% non-Indigenous but do not break out Australian-born percentage. For precise overseas-born shares, refer to the 2021 Census Community Profiles citation:QuickStats 2021.

Reservoir Primary School offers Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) run in-house by the school. Before-school care runs from 7:00am to 8:45am (breakfast provided until 8:30am), and after-school care runs from 3:30pm to 6:00pm. Fees are $20 per session for before school and $28 for after school; the program is coordinated by two long-term staff members citation:Community – Reservoir Primary School.

Reservoir Primary School offers instrumental music lessons as electives, specifically violin and keyboard citation:Our School – Reservoir Primary School. The school also runs a PIT Gym program (performance improvement training gym) and inter-school sport for students citation:Community – Reservoir Primary School. Additionally, the school has STOMP dance sessions, where each class learns a choreographed dance for a school concert citation:Events&News – Reservoir Primary School.

Reservoir has a diverse, family-friendly atmosphere with several specialty grocers. Broadway Asian Supermarket Toko (264 Broad Way) offers Indonesian and Asian groceries citation:Broadway Asian Supermarket Toko. For Indian groceries, residents can visit Star India Spices & Groceries (3 Edwardes Street) or Pick & Save Indian Grocery Shop (978 High Street) citation:Indian Grocery Stores Reservoir. Marco Fine Foods (Reservoir) provides high-quality eco-friendly and organic produce with a butcher, bakery, and cafe citation:Marco Fine Foods & Groceries.

For casual family dining, Phon Pi Sai Thai (Reservoir) is known for authentic Thai cuisine with balanced flavouring citation:Cheap Eats in Reservoir. Manara Pizza House offers Italian pizza and pasta in a warm setting citation:Restaurants in Reservoir. For fish and chips, Cons Fish and Chips (delivers to Reservoir) is highly rated citation:Takeaway & Delivery in Reservoir.

The Tutor Place (21 Taylor Avenue, Reservoir) offers private home tutoring for primary and secondary students citation:30 Best Local Tuition Tutoring. Cluey Learning provides online tutoring for primary and high school students in English, Maths, and Chemistry, with tutors matched to students citation:Tutoring Reservoir.

Reservoir is served by the Mernda train line, with trains from Reservoir Station to Flinders Street Station taking approximately 29 minutes, running every 20 minutes. Metro Trains Melbourne operates this service. The school is within walking distance of both Reservoir and Ruthven stations citation:Our School – Reservoir Primary School citation:Reservoir to Flinders Street Station citation:Mernda line.