Principal Brendan Campbell said his school was sick of cleaning up the mess left by vandals.

Last month, a new gazebo for an outdoor teaching and learning area at the school was tagged, including on the concrete. The school also had to pay $1000 to clean up a wall covered in graffiti over the Christmas holidays.

Mr Campbell said some of the attacks had happened during the holidays, but an increasing number of incidents occurred on Wednesday nights.

He said it took him and the school's assistant principal about an hour to tidy the school after the Wednesday night attacks.

"There's one particular area where people come along and do their graffiti, and they vandalise and they scratch glass and scratch doors. They smoke drugs, drink alcohol and smash bottles."

Now the school has invested $350 in a tiny video camera, which Mr Campbell hopes will catch offenders and prevent further attacks.

Although the camera is yet to pick up any offenders, Mr Campbell said if it did, footage would be forwarded to police.

"It wastes my valuable leadership, administration and management time having to come in and clean up broken glass, vomit and cigarette butts."

Senior Sergeant Cliff Sunderland from Boronia police said if the video footage was able to clearly identify who was committing the graffiti, and whereabouts in the school grounds, it might be able to be used by police.

"Any crime prevention initiative which can withstand the scrutiny of the law has got to be a help."