Jewish schools accounted for about 60 per cent of the funding granted and just 27 per cent were government schools.

In the budget, the Coalition will expand the program to allow schools to spend the funding on private security guards, making good on last year's election promise.

A spokeswoman for Justice Minister Michael Keenan said: ''The Coalition government recognises unique security circumstances that some schools face, and that every child has the right to be safe at school. That is why we will work with schools that face risk of attack, harassment or violence stemming from racial or religious intolerance.''

Last August, Labor also promised to expand the program to include security guards if it won government, vowing to spend an extra $10 million on the program.

Daniel Goulburn, co-chairman of the NSW Jewish Day Schools Co-ordinating Committee, said the 2012 attack in France - in which a rabbi and three students were killed outside a school that had redirected security funding - had resonated with Jewish schools worldwide.