Skyscrapers, but no school for Wentworth Point, Newington and Sydney Olympic Park residents

The local student populations are swelling by hundreds each year, and worried parents are calling on the Department to help ease the pressure.

The sky is the limit for ­development in Wentworth Point and Newington, but frustrated parents say plans for a new high school cannot get off the ground.

Newington Public School’s student numbers swelled from under 500 in 2011 to 885 in 2016.

Now parents say the flow-on effect into the local high school is now being felt.

Parents and students at Newington Public School are concerned that they don't have a local high school in area.

Newington Public School parent Rohina Joshi said the only sensible option was to build a new high school as Concord High School was the only high school from Russell Lea to Newington.

“There are 156 kindergarten kids this year, last year there were 145, and the year before 124,” Ms Joshi said.

“Where are all of these kids going to go to high school?”

Parent Audrey D’Mello (second from right) said there were plenty of skyscrapers and no schools in Wentworth Point.

Newington parent Audrey D’Mello said their growing community needed more classrooms for primary and secondary students.

“The skyscrapers are coming up at an alarming rate, but we can’t get a school,” Ms D’Mello said.

Ms D’Mello also said there also was a lack of infrastructure and services to support the increasing populations of Wentworth Point and Newington.

“The school buses to Concord High School are full after a few stops, and then all other students have to get two or three public buses,” she said.

“If you don’t make the school buses in the ­afternoon, you won’t get home until 5pm on public transport.”

A Department of Education spokesman said the department managed enrolment growth with temporary classrooms and increasing the size of existing schools.

There were no plans for a new high school to alleviate the pressure on Concord High School, he said.

“When existing school sites approach their development potential and there remains unmet demand, the Department considers the development of a new school,” the spokesman said.

Students at Newington Public School, where more than 50 per cent of the classrooms are demountables.

Newington Public School is also under pressure as the community waits for Wentworth Point’s new primary school to materialise in 2017.

“The teachers are doing the best they can and the education is brilliant,” Ms Joshi said.

“But the school is now running three assemblies as the students can’t fit inside the hall, and some parents have to attend all three to see all of their children.”

Ms Joshi also said the community’s children, many of whom live in apartment blocks, no longer have the space they need to be ­active.

“Sport has been reduced because there is nowhere for the kids to run around, and to get all classes to have a turn at an activity like Flip Gym, they have to alternate,” she said.

“Where’s the space? The oval’s being encroached upon by the demountable classrooms.”

■ Concord High School’s catchment of 12km serves a community of approximately 60,000 people, according to online research engine Graphiq

■ Its student population neared 1000 in 2015

■ Newington Public School’s population grew from 302 in 2006 to 885 in 2016 – it is a feeder for Concord High School