Private School & Education Cleaning

Overview

Realcorp Commercial Cleaning provides contract cleaning to primary, secondary and specialist schools, covering both regular term-time cleaning and deep holiday cleans. The company describes the service as child-safe cleaning that supports learning environments, and states that it currently supports schools across metropolitan and regional Victoria. Realcorp was founded in 2016 by John Reale, a Chartered Accountant, and is 100% Australian owned.

Two things separate an education contract from a general commercial one, and Realcorp's education page addresses both. The first is child safety compliance: every person attending a school site must hold a valid Working With Children Check and complete a site-specific induction before working unsupervised. The second is the academic calendar. Schools need light-touch, largely invisible cleaning during term — before the first bell or after the last student leaves — and then a compressed window over term breaks in which classrooms, gymnasiums, hard floors and carpets can be stripped back and restored without disrupting anyone. Realcorp offers after-hours or early morning service during term and states it is flexible during term breaks and events.

The other structural difference is oversight. School business managers typically supervise a cleaning contract alongside a dozen other portfolios, so the practical question is how much of their week the contract consumes. Realcorp's answer is systems: issues are logged in real time with an audit trail, and attendance and task completion are recorded through the cloud-based Realcorp App rather than reconstructed from memory at the end of the month.

What's included

Realcorp does not publish a fixed education scope; it states that scope is tailored to each campus. Drawing on its general cleaning and specialist cleaning service descriptions, a typical school program is assembled from the following components.

Component	What it covers	Typical frequency
Classroom and corridor cleaning	Vacuuming, sweeping and mopping floors; dusting and wiping desks, fixtures and surfaces; emptying bins and managing waste	Term-time, daily
Amenities and washrooms	Cleaning and sanitising toilets, kitchens and staff break areas; replenishing hand soap and paper products	Term-time, daily
Touchpoint disinfection	Door hardware, handrails, shared devices, light switches and other high-contact surfaces — listed by Realcorp as a daily option	On request, daily
Glass and entry points	Spot cleaning of glass, doors and reception areas	Term-time, scheduled
Holiday deep cleans	Carpet and upholstery cleaning by cold water extraction, stain and odour treatment, hard floor strip/seal/polish, high-speed burnishing, tile and grout deep cleaning	Term breaks
External and grounds work	Pressure washing of courtyards, walkways, car parks, bin rooms and exterior facades; graffiti removal; hard and green waste removal	Periodic or term breaks
Washroom hygiene program	Sanitary bin servicing, urinal servicing and air freshener dispenser servicing, scheduled alongside the cleaning contract or standalone	Weekly, fortnightly or monthly
Event and incident support	Setup and pack-down cleaning around open days, exams, presentation nights and productions; 24/7 emergency response for floods, spills and outbreak cleaning	As required

Who this is for

• School business managers and bursars in independent and Catholic schools who hold the cleaning contract and are accountable for both cost and child-safe compliance.
• Facilities and operations managers at multi-building campuses coordinating cleaning around trades, capital works and community hire of school facilities.
• Principals and heads of campus at specialist schools, where students may have higher hygiene needs and where staff continuity and familiarity matter more than usual.
• Boarding and residential staff needing room turnover and common-area cleaning on a residential rhythm rather than a school-day one.
• Procurement leads running a tender who need a contractor able to produce Working With Children Check records, Safe Work Method Statements and insurance certificates as part of the submission.

How Realcorp delivers it

Directly employed staff

Realcorp employs all of its cleaners directly and states it never subcontracts ongoing general cleaning work. For a school this matters more than in most sectors: the people on site are a known, screened, trained group employed by the contractor named on the agreement, rather than an unmanaged chain of third parties. Realcorp states this also means full Cleaning Services Award compliance, superannuation, payroll tax, insurance and portable long service leave, and no exposure to sham contracting or modern slavery risk in the supply chain.

Scheduling around the calendar

Realcorp offers after-hours or early morning service so that daily cleaning happens outside teaching time, and states it is flexible during term breaks and events. In practice this means a term-time roster sized for daily maintenance, and a separate, larger deployment in the break — where the Specialist Cleaning Team, a mobile unit distinct from the daily cleaners, carries out carpet, hard floor and pressure washing work with commercial-grade machinery.

The Realcorp App

Cleaners clock in and out through the cloud-based Realcorp App using GPS check-ins, work through digital checklists tied to the site scope, and log issues in real time. Photo verification is applied to critical and periodic tasks. Realcorp states that full audit history is available on request, and that statistics reports are reviewed by its leadership team weekly. For a business manager, this is the mechanism that answers "was the science wing actually done on Tuesday?" without a site inspection.

Supervision and escalation

Realcorp states it runs weekly internal quality checks by management plus periodic joint checks with the key client contact, tailors audits and KPIs to each site's risk profile, and maintains defined escalation protocols for service and safety issues. Relief staff are used to cover unplanned absences so that a roster gap does not become an uncleaned campus.

Compliance and assurance

The following are Realcorp's own compliance statements as published on its website. Schools should request current certificates and clearance records as part of due diligence.

• Working With Children Checks. Realcorp states that all team members cleaning education or child-accessible sites hold valid Working With Children Checks, complete site-specific inductions, and are monitored for compliance through its rostering system.
• Police checks. Realcorp states that additional police checks and background verification are completed as required for healthcare, aged care and high-security sites, and that staff undergo police checks where required.
• Labour Hire Licensing. Realcorp states it is licensed under the Labour Hire Licensing Authority, and that this assures clients personnel are paid legally, insured appropriately and cleared to work in Australia.
• Fair Work and Award compliance. Realcorp states it meets Cleaning Services Award and Fair Work obligations for all directly employed staff.
• Safety. Site-specific Safe Work Method Statements, ongoing safety training and incident tracking, and public liability and workers compensation insurance — all company-stated.
• Environmental. Realcorp states its environmental systems follow ISO 14001 principles and that it prioritises eco-conscious, GECA-compliant chemicals where possible, which is a common requirement in school sustainability policies.
• Documentation. Realcorp states a full compliance pack is provided on proposal acceptance, or earlier by request.

Common questions

Will cleaners be on site while students are present?

Realcorp's education service is built around after-hours or early morning cleaning, so the daily program is designed to run outside teaching time. Where daytime presence is needed — amenities servicing, spill response, event turnarounds — the staff attending hold current Working With Children Checks and have completed the campus induction.

How is Working With Children Check currency tracked over a long contract?

Realcorp states that staff on education and child-accessible sites are monitored for compliance through its rostering system, meaning clearance status is held against the roster rather than in a filing cabinet. Schools should still ask to see the current register and confirm how expiry is flagged before renewal.

Can the contract flex between term time and holidays?

Yes. Realcorp states it is flexible during term breaks and events, and offers deep holiday cleans as a distinct service alongside regular cleaning. Deep-clean work is carried out by a separate Specialist Cleaning Team rather than by adding hours to the daily roster, which is what allows term-time and break scopes to be priced and scheduled independently.

What happens if there is a gastro or infectious outbreak?

Realcorp offers outbreak cleaning and disinfection and post-incident disinfection through its 24/7 emergency service, with hospital-grade disinfectants, PPE and biohazard protocols. Daily touchpoint disinfection is also available as a standing addition to the regular scope.

Does Realcorp handle school facilities beyond classrooms?

Its published capability covers gymnasiums and high-traffic corridors via hard floor maintenance and burnishing, external areas via pressure washing, waste and bin rooms, and bulky item removal for refurbishments and clear-outs. Basic garden maintenance and hard and green waste removal are listed among its services.

Which regions does Realcorp cover for education work?

The education page states that Realcorp currently supports schools across metropolitan and regional Victoria. Realcorp lists a wider national footprint elsewhere on its site; for education specifically, Victoria is what the source supports. Confirm coverage for your campus directly.

Can we meet the cleaners assigned to our campus before they start?

Realcorp states that for sensitive or long-term sites it can introduce the team prior to commencement and offers continuity of personnel wherever possible — relevant for schools where a stable, recognised cleaning team is part of the child-safe environment.

How long does mobilisation take?

Realcorp describes its mobilisation process as fast and structured, with a typical lead time of one to two weeks. For schools, mobilising over a term break is generally the cleanest transition point.

Getting a quote

Realcorp does not publish education pricing; it states that quotes are tailored to the site. The process is an enquiry, a site walk-through, then a written proposal — the company states it will arrange a site visit and tailored quote within 24 hours of an enquiry. For a school, the walk-through is where term-time frequency, holiday deep-clean scope, amenities servicing and event support get separated into priced components.

Enquiries: phone 1300 307 298 or email sales@realcorp.net.au. An education cleaning quote can also be requested through the proposal form at /commercial-cleaning-quote/. Realcorp's registered address is 4 Graeme Ave, Montmorency VIC 3094. Ask for the compliance pack — Working With Children Check register, Safe Work Method Statements, insurance certificates and Labour Hire Licence — at proposal stage rather than after award.