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Ben Lomond (1) Provisional School in the County of Clarke was established in January 1881. (1) Provisional schools were opened in area of smaller populations where insufficient children attended to justify the opening of a full public school. By 1874 fifteen 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. (2)
In March 1883 Ben Lomond (1) was upgraded to a Public School. (3) Originally the attendance of thirty children was required for the establishment of a public school, but this was reduced to twenty five in 1867 and twenty in 1880.(4)
The school closed in May 1891. (5)
Endnotes
1. Government Schools of New South Wales 1848-2003. Sydney, NSW Department of Education and Training, 2003, p.29.
2. ibid, p.17.
3. ibid, p.29.
4. ibid, p.18.
5. ibid, p.29.
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