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Limeburners Creek Provisional School in the County of Gloucester opened in November 1877. (1) Limeburners Creek became a Public School from January 1884, a Half-Time School from July 1890, and a Provisional School from January 1895. In April 1900, the school became a Public School and retained this status until December 1902. In January 1903 the school became Limeburners Creek Half-Time School and retained this status until its closure in December 1906. In February 1907, Limeburner Creek Public School [III] opened. (2)
Provisional Schools emerged in 1867 and could be established in areas where at least 15 children, but fewer than 25 required for a Public School, could be expected to attend. The minimum number of students was reduced to twelve in the 1880s, ten from 1898, and nine from 1945.(3)
A Public School had a minimum attendance of thirty children prior to 1867, twenty-five children until 1880 when the number was reduced to twenty. From 1957, the minimum number was reduced to nine.(4)
Half-Time Schools were elementary schools which emerged in 1867 to cater for children in areas of scattered population. A teacher visited two schools of at least 10 students each. In 1898 the required attendance was reduced to 16, and by 1908 no fixed number was required.(5)
Endnotes
1. Government Schools of New South Wales 1848 to 2003, NSW Department of Education and Training, 2003, p.86.
2. loc. cit. (see Agency 3735).
3. ibid., p.17.
4. ibid., p.16.
5. ibid., p.18.
Extended title: Limeburners Creek Provisional School [I] (1877-1883) / Limeburners Creek Public School [I] (1884-1890) / Limeburners Creek Half-Time School [I] (1890-1894) / Limeburners Creek Provisional School [II] (1895-1900) / Limeburners Creek Public School [II] (1900-1902) / Limeburners Creek Half-Time School [II] (1903-1906)
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