AGY-4874 | Walleroobie Provisional School [II] (1953-1957) Walleroobie Public School [II] (1957-1969)

Full description

Walleroobie Provisional School [II] in the County of Bourke opened in September 1953. (1) Provisional Schools were opened in areas of smaller populations where insufficient children attended to justify the opening of a full public school. By 1953 ten students were required to maintain a provisional school. Usually the Department of Public Instruction supplied the teacher, books and other teaching materials and the parents provided the premises for the School.

The School was converted into a public school in July 1957 when the classification 'Provisional School" was discontinued and the remaining provisional schools with a pupil population of at least nine were converted into public schools.

Walleroobie Public School closed in September 1969. (2)

Endnotes 
1. NRS 17576, Register of admission, progress and withdrawal [Walleroobie Public School] includes a register with entries from 28 September 1953. 
2. NSW Department of Education and Training. Government Schools of New South Wales 1848–2003. Sydney, the Department, 2003, 6th ed., p.134.

Notes
Walleroobie was also spelled Wallaroobie. 
There was a previous Provisional (later public) School conducted at Walleroobie between 1913 and 1943.