Fourteen new public preschools have opened across New South Wales, adding more than 1,000 places as part of a $769 million expansion planned to deliver 100 sites by early 2027.
Fourteen new public preschools are opening across New South Wales in Term 4, lifting early learning capacity for more than 1,000 children and taking the number of operating sites in the state to 21. According to the NSW Government, the latest openings are part of a plan to deliver 100 public preschools on public school sites by early 2027, a rollout intended to roughly double the state’s public preschool network and create places for as many as 9,000 children.
The new services are spread across metropolitan and regional communities, with sites including Carramar, Cartwright, Curran, Emerton, Gables, Granville East, Guildford West, Leeton, Lynwood Park, Moorland, Sackville Street, Sherwood Grange, Villawood North and Yagoona. Seven other public preschools had already opened earlier in the programme at Blackett, Boorowa, Hanwood, Hillvue, Gulyangarri, Queanbeyan East and Queanbeyan South, as the state builds out what officials describe as its biggest public preschool expansion to date.
Among the newest openings, Yagoona Public Preschool in western Sydney has been designed to cater for up to 80 children a week. The preschool is co-located with Yagoona Public School and includes dedicated learning spaces and outdoor play areas, reflecting the government’s approach of placing new services alongside primary schools to make the transition into Kindergarten smoother for children and more convenient for families.
The expansion is backed by a $769 million investment, first unveiled as a program to build 100 preschools across the state. Government statements say 51 of the new sites are planned for metropolitan Sydney and 49 for regional New South Wales, with location decisions guided by educational need, socioeconomic data, child development indicators and expected demand for preschool places. The first site in the programme, Gulyangarri Public Preschool in Liverpool, opened in October 2024.
Further openings are expected to continue into early 2027, subject to construction and regulatory approvals. The preschools generally operate during public school terms and hours, provide play-based early education under the National Quality Framework, and are staffed by qualified teachers and educators. The wider policy goal is universal access to preschool in the year before school by 2030, with the current rollout forming a central part of that push.
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