Ballarat High School will receive $43,000, Caledonian Primary School $42,000, Urquhart Park Primary School $31,000, Magpie Primary School $23,000, Dana Street Primary School $21,000, Alfredton Primary School $12,000 and Little Bendigo Primary School $5000 in the second round of the Planned Maintenance Program funding.

Other schools around the region to benefit include Bealiba Primary School with $12,000, Carisbrook Primary School $62,000, Dunolly Primary School $59,000 and Derrinallum P-12 College $335,000.

Education Minister James Merlino said more than $40 million had been handed out to 436 Victorian schools to improve their classrooms and facilities in this funding round.

The Planned Maintenance Program provides funds to refurbish, demolish or replace school buildings that have fallen below minimum standards.

“This funding boost will allow hundreds more Victorian schools to replace or upgrade buildings in poor condition so that our teachers and students have the first-rate facilities they deserve,” Mr Merlino said.

Sixty-five schools shared in $10.8 million under the first funding round, which was provided to complement major redevelopments or upgrades at those sites in the state budget.

All up, 501 schools will share in $52.4 million in school maintenance funding.

It follows three Ballarat schools getting funding in the 2016 state budget, with Phoenix P-12 Community College receiving $1.8 million towards upgrades, with another $8.1 million promised in future budgets.

Ballarat Secondary College received just over $1.5 million to modernise its year 11 and 12 facilities at its Wendouree and Ballarat East campuses following the closure later this year of the Barkly site and Ballarat High School received a large part of its promised $8 million Coalition commitment to finish its major upgrade.

A new Ballarat Technical School is also set to be built, with an architect appointed to the project in June.

The school will use leading edge technology to teach science, technology, engineering and maths subjects to students from 18 surrounding secondary schools.

It is a partnership between local schools, government, industry and Federation University.

It is one of 10 new tech schools being built by the state government across the state and is planned to be finished by 2018. Federation University will run the tech school at one of its SMB campus buildings on Albert Street will be renovated.