Carnegie Primary School is located at the intersection of Glenhuntly and Truganini Roads Carnegie, in the City of Glen Eira. Situated in a residential area, its position offers the following advantages: 

• proximity to pre-school centres including Neerim Pre-School and Truganini Child Care Centre
• close to high quality community sporting venues including ovals, swimming pool and athletic track
• close to our community library
• close to community shopping centre
• close to trams, trains and buses

The 2025 Prep enrolment reflects stability in numbers over recent years.

We focus strongly on maintaining and fostering our school as a learning community which values interaction between and contribution from students, parents, teachers and the wider community through:

• providing an environment that is safe and secure
• facilitating effective communication to foster a strong partnership within the school community
• providing regular professional learning for staff reflecting the principles of the science of learning
• valuing and facilitating academic excellence
• encouraging, recognising and rewarding achievement and effort.
• developing in students such qualities in their lives and social skills as tolerance, empathy, responsibility, communication, independence, problem solving, creativity and respect for themselves and others.

Out of school hours care and vacation care programs are provided by Youth Leadership Victoria, catering for primary school aged children from the wider community as well as students of the school.

Carnegie Primary School boasts fine red brick buildings which date back more than one hundred years. These house: 

• an administrative centre
• Japanese room
• 26 classrooms, each with their own notebooks and iPads and interactive whiteboard

• a full-size gymnasium, art room and music room

The school's grounds are extensive consisting of:

• a sports oval
• basketball and netball courts
• two sets of shaded fixed play equipment and sandpits
• an adventure playground