Toolern Vale and District Primary School

Toolern Vale is a semi-rural, middle-income suburb. The median weekly household income is $1,908, and the median age is 44, notably older than the Victorian average of 38 citation:2021 Toolern Vale, Census All persons QuickStats. With 52.79% of residents married, an average household size of 2.9 people, and a high car ownership rate (3.1 vehicles per dwelling), the suburb has a strong family and owner-occupier character citation:Toolern Vale, VIC 3337 Property Market and House Prices 2026. Detailed occupations splits (white-collar vs blue-collar) were not found in available sources.

Toolern Vale is overwhelmingly Australian-born. The 2016 Census records that 60.3% of people had both parents born in Australia, and the most common overseas country of birth was England at 3.2% citation:2016 Toolern Vale, Census All persons QuickStats. More recent 2021 data for the broader Kurunjang - Toolern Vale SA2 area shows the Australian-born percentage is dominant, but the exact suburb-level Australian-born share for 2021 was not directly stated in the provided snippets.

Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) is provided at Toolern Vale and District Primary School by OSHClub. The programs are called 'Rise then Shine' (before school, operating from 6:00 AM to bell time) and 'Stay and Play' (after school, from bell time to 6:00 PM), and a Holiday HQ program runs from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM on pupil-free days citation:Toolern Vale & District Primary School | OSHClub. The provider can be contacted at 0455 469 712 citation:Toolern Vale & District Primary School | OSHClub.

The school's specialist programs include Health and PE, the Arts, DigiTech, and Italian citation:Toolern Vale & District P.S. Specific extracurricular activities noted on the school’s newsletters and site include the Parents Club (organising social and fundraising events) and the availability of ABC Reading Eggs, Writing Legends, and Mathletics as online learning resources citation:Toolern Vale & District P.S - Parents Club; citation:Toolern Vale & District P.S. The school also has a Wellbeing and Inclusion team supporting student needs citation:Toolern Vale & District P.S.

Toolern Vale is a small, semi-rural township 40 km north-west of Melbourne, described as a 'country' school community set among creeks and forest citation:Toolern Vale & District P.S. Local grocery shopping includes nearby options in Melton, such as Lee Merchants Asian Supermarket at 29 Wallace Square, Melton, for Asian groceries [citation:Melton-Wyndham's Best Asian Grocery Stores [2026] - dlook](https://www.dlook.com.au/find/asian-grocery-shop-in-melton-wyndham-vic). No dedicated specialty supermarket within Toolern Vale itself was identified in the provided sources.

Takeaway and dining options serving Toolern Vale include Ajays Pizzeria (Italian/Pizza) in Melton and Chongs Kitchen (Malaysian/Asian) in Melton West, both available for delivery citation:Takeaway & Delivery in Toolern Vale, VIC 3337 | TuckerFox AU. A local restaurant mentioned at 620 Blackhill Rd, Toolern Vale, serves pasta and pizza, though its name is not given in the source citation:THE BEST 10 Restaurants in Toolern Vale, Victoria.

Local tutoring options include Cluey Learning, which offers personalised online tutoring aligned to the Victorian curriculum specifically for Toolern Vale and District Primary School students citation:Toolern Vale and District Primary School | Cluey Learning. Success Tutoring also provides primary and high school tutoring in Toolern Vale, though specific location details were not provided citation:Tutoring Toolern Vale | Primary & High School Tutors.

Toolern Vale does not have a train station. The nearest V/Line station is located at Melton, on the Melton line. A typical V/Line train journey from Melton station to Southern Cross (the CBD terminus for regional services) takes approximately 35–40 minutes citation:V/Line - Regional public transport for Victoria - Train & coach timetables; citation:metro trains » Victoria / Melbourne Transport. Specific bus routes from Toolern Vale to Melton station were not named in the provided sources.