AGY-3737 | Limeburners Creek Half-Time School [IV] (1919-1921) / Limeburners Creek Provisional School [III] (1921-1957) / Limeburners Creek Public School [V] (1957-1966)

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Limeburners Creek Half-Time School [IV] in the County of Gloucester opened in April 1919. (1) In February 1921, the school became Limeburners Creek Provisional School. From November 1957, the school’s title was Limeburners Creek Public School and it retained this status until its closure in December 1966. (2)

Previous schools with the title of Limeburners Creek had been opened between 1877 and 1906, between 1907 and 1916 and between 1917 and 1918. (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. (3)

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. (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.; Punishment book, 9 November 1950-15 December 1966 [1/8928].
3. Government Schools of New South Wales 1848 to 2003, NSW Department of Education and Training, 2003, p.86 (see Agencies 3734, 3735 and 3736).
4. ibid., p.16.
5. ibid., p.17.
6. ibid., p.18.