Springvale South is a suburb in Melbourne

Melbourne

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, Victoria

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, Australia

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, 24 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district

Melbourne city centre

Melbourne City Centre is an area of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. It is not to be confused with the larger local government area of the City of Melbourne...

. Its Local Government Area is the City of Greater Dandenong

City of Greater Dandenong

The City of Greater Dandenong is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia located in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne. It has an area of 130 square kilometres and has a estimated population of 137,600 people....

. At the 2006 Census, Springvale South had a population of 11,734.

Education

There are two primary schools in Springvale South:

• Springvale South Primary School
• Spring Valley Primary School

The two secondary schools, Heatherhill Secondary College and Coomoora Secondary College have been merged with Springvale Secondary College and Chandler Secondary College into Keysborough Secondary College

Keysborough Secondary College

Keysborough Secondary College is a dual campus government coeducational school for students from years 7-12, with campuses located in Springvale South, Victoria and Keysborough, Victoria. The four participating schools were officially merged into Keysborough Secondary College on the 6th of October...

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Religious buildings

Springvale Road south of the Springvale commercial area has a concentration of religious buildings of different faiths:

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints Braeside Stake Centre
• Spanish Seventh Day Adventist
• Bright Moon Buddhist Society
• Cambodian Buddhist Temple
• New Apostolic Church
• Khmer Buddhist Centre
• Vietnamese Buddhist centre

See also

• City of Springvale
  City of Springvale
  The City of Springvale was a Local Government Area located about southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1857 until 1994.-History:...
  
   - the former local government area of which Springvale South was a part.

Transport

There are four buses operated by Grenda's

Grenda

Grenda is a third generation Australian family business maintaining its position as one of the major players in the Australian bus and coach industry. Grenda Corporation is a bus manufacturing and mass transit company, delivering over twenty-five per cent of Melbourne’s public bus system. In...

that service the Springvale South vicinity.