AGY-3736 | Limeburners Creek Half-Time School [III] (1917) / Limeburners Creek Public School [IV] (1918)

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Limeburners Creek Half-Time School opened in May 1917 and became a Public School in January 1918. (1) The school remained a Public School until its closure in December 1918. (2) Previous schools with the title of Limeburners Creek had been opened between 1877 and 1906 and between 1907 and 1916. Limeburners Creek Half-Time School [III] would open in April 1919. (3)

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. (4)

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. (5)

Endnotes
1. Government Schools of New South Wales 1848 to 2003, NSW Department of Education and Training, 2003, p.86.
2. loc. cit.
3. loc. cit. (see Agencies 3734, 3735 and 3737).
4. ibid. p.16.
5. ibid., p.18.